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HatesParisHilton -> RE: Right or Wrong ??? (1/24/2007 8:28:58 PM)
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what I mean means nothing because by the first cardinal law of semiotics, what YOU take it to mean and what the greater aggregate of people reading this thread take it to mean decides it's EFFECTIVE meaning, which outweighs any INTENDED meaning even I, as the "author" of the post, intended. Such is true for every newspaper article, blog entry, film, painting, you name it, anything that is intended to be read and absorbed by anyone other than by the author themselves. This is a message board, EVERY post (YOURS included) is DESIGNED to be read and interpreted by someone other than the author. And that has an effect. And we compose and tailor or posts (or movies, or articles) to receive a desired effect, even if on a subconscious level, even if in an unwitting battle between the ID and the Super Ego (to use old school clinical terms) at the expense of the ego. (which these days isn;t even a word used accurately or properly by 90% or more of the people that bandy the word about; again, semiotics in action). Which in a way, we all learn in Kindergarten, and it's the most important and functionally useful lesson we ever learn. Aside from memetics, which we learn earlier than that. And yes, this dovetails with the Jungian thread, for me. I could CLAIM to you I was familiar with the quote, even offer my own interpretaion of it, but that would mean nothing. The only meaning would be what you would DECIDE, as a READER, for yourself. and that is a relationship. just as monog and poly and cheating and "trustworthy" relationships are. which are all semiotic and memetic. Just like I can claim to understand what you think the quote means, then claim to understand it in the same way? A cheater can claim he never cheats then cheats ANYWAY, even when believed and given the benefit of the doubt. which is why I feel that this longwinded-from-hell-reply to you is valid. But *I* don;t decide that, YOU do. Because semiotically, I wrote the reply FOR YOU, and those whom bother to read our widdle bitty interchange, so only YOUR POV on it (and theirs) defines what the real meaning "is".
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