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Impenetrability creates an illusion of truth. The act of deciphering meaning produces the same endorphins as solving a puzzle. The end result of reading such a
by crimsonalucard 8y ago
Impenetrability creates an illusion of truth. The act of deciphering meaning produces the same endorphins as solving a puzzle. The end result of reading such a text is that you see something new from a different angle but that thing may not be real.
It is the catharsis one feels at the end of the journey of decoding an impenetrable text that may mask the fact that the core message is a lie. The bible is a good example of this.
- booleandilemma 8y agoI felt this way when reading Karl Popper’s book “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”. I feel as if he went out of his way to be hard to understand.
- commandlinefan 8y agoPeople get down on Knuth for the same reason (the author of, by far, the hardest books I’ve ever read), but in Knuth’s case it’s actually just that he’s being absolutely concise.
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