Friends and people I talk with often get confused to what I mean to say. Here's an explanation.
I recently wrote this little bit that's very near and dear to my heart.
"I'm a bohemian, but to me, so are you"
This is not what I mean to say at all. You see, a bohemian is a person that lives outside the normal way of operating. A person of fringe culture, a gypsy. Another way of saying what I mean to say would be...
"I'm an irrational, but to me, so are you"
I don't mean to pull the idea of logic into this at all either. It has nothing to do with the functions of logic or of social structure- what we choose to or are capable of adhering to.
Part of the problem is not that the phrase is so goddamn vague. The main issue, the crux to this message, and all of my personal messages really, is that it's an explanation of all things through one thing. I'm trying to show you and every person who experiences me what it is like to see the cosmos in a piece of beach wood.
I am outside of XYZ and I recognize openly, in a very public way, that YOU are also outside of XYZ. XYZ being that which you believe you're in. I can see the republican nature within the democrat and it isn't my fault if they can't see it.
This is, of course, saying that black is the same as white, which very few people can readily understand. So they generally have an awful time trying to figure out what the hell I mean by calling them a gypsy. It isn't readily available. It's very difficult to wrestle with intellectually. And that's ok! Don't stress it.
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