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Weekly Residuum 150 -May 2003 A
© photo and text Koen Nieuwendijk




Rationality is a figment of human thinking. Reality is a fictitious certainty that confers the illusion of supremacy upon thinking, but is quite useless as a guarantee against feeling hung over. But there is more, for even if I have managed all by myself to think all of this up, who am I to say that someone else is wrong?

The logic of being mistaken is that it culminates in illuminating insight, which leaves the question as to whether penalisation of erroneous thinking does not result in procrastination - if you agree, that is, that thinking has made headway, difficult to measure as it may be, since the days of Adam and Eve … although it seems to me that the logic of measuring definitely indicates uncertainty. I will for now give the benefit of the doubt to the benefit of this particular doubt, or I might as well chuck it in altogether. That's how rational my thinking is, you see.

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