How South Park Promotes Inaction
Hay una confusión específica que está en el centro de todo esto y que vale la pena nombrar con precisión: la confusión entre ver el mecanismo y estar fuera del mecanismo. Son dos cosas completamente distintas.
Puedes entender perfectamente cómo funciona una trampa y seguir dentro. Puedes describir con exactitud los resortes de un sistema y ser parte de su funcionamiento. Ver no es salir, nombrar no es transformar,pero la postura que South Park instaló durante 25 años opera exactament...
notesThere's a specific confusion at the center of all this that's worth naming precisely: the confusion between seeing the mechanism and standing outside the mechanism. These are two completely different things.
You can understand perfectly how a trap works and still be inside it. You can describe exactly how a system's springs move and still be part of its operation. Seeing isn't getting out; naming isn't transforming, but the posture South Park installed over 25 years operates exactly on that confusion: it produces the feeling that lucidity is a real form of freedom, that understanding something is equivalent to standing outside of it.
The perfect viewer South Park manufactured isn't passive or ignorant. He's cognitively very active, well informed, capable of sophisticated analysis, who experiences that sophistication as a form of freedom and who, for that very reason, feels no pressure toward anything further, because he's already done what needed doing: he already saw, already understood, already laughed at the right things.
What he doesn't notice, what the installed posture prevents him from noticing, is that this whole movement happened entirely within the space the system can tolerate without any problem, that in this case lucidity isn't the first step of something — it's the first step and also the last.
Animals Can't Be Perfect in all Characteristics
We can expect bodies to be well equipped to
survive, but this does not mean they should be perfect with respect to any one dimension. An
antelope might run faster, and be more likely to escape a leopard, if its legs were a little longer. But
a rival antelope with longer legs, although it might be better equipped to outsprint a predator, has to
pay for its long legs in some other department of the body's economy. The materials needed to
make the extra bone and muscle in the longer legs have to... notesEnergy and materials put into one characteristic means less for another; therefore, species must find balance.
