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ὀδύνη (pain) + μέτρον (measure), or the pain meter: I suppose this is the place to put a little quip or a facile manifesto on what this whole thing is about. To be entirely honest, I have no idea, but I will pretend like I do anyhow. As the etymology of the title would suggest, this blog is to somehow measure pain. Whose pain, what pain, and how is it measured are all still in question.
Obligatory "Authoritative" Quote:
Douleur toujours nouvelle pour celui qui souffre et qui se banalise pour l'entourage. - Alphonse Daudet (whose works I have never read)
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Were we to apply the ten rules of thumb sketched above, we would certainly produce many of those brief interludes of bedlam when dialectical collisions occur, even though these moments of vocal static would decrease in length and in number as we gained practice with free dialectic. Such static is not dialogue’s worst problem. Plato and Shakespeare both speak of the mind’s eye, that eye that alone sees intellectual light. I suggest there is a mind’s ear too, a listening, mindful ear. I suggest that the chief reason that conversations deteriorate is that the mind’s ear fails.
