What if all of us think in the same manner, but only our reactions to those thoughts and stimuli are what shape the perceptions that other people have of our personalities?
The above statement has been sitting in draft form for a few months. I had nothing much to add apart from the problematic half-idea that it is. I finished Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore [which reads like anime watches] last evening and a prostitute/philosophy student started tossing around Hegel quotes specifically relating to the subject-object problem. After the brief amount of research on this that I have done this morning, I think that’s what my halfmatic problem-idea was aiming at. As usual, whenever I think of something that might be revelatory, I find that great minds have been there long before me.
I read Murukami’s Sputnik Sweetheart a couple months ago. From what I hear, it’s a little more directed than Kafka but still married to his signature existential themes. I thought it was very well constructed and quite enjoyable 😉
Kafka is my favorite Murakami. Sputnik is also very good and I love the way it ends. The other Murakami books, like the one about the sheep…eh.