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Friday, March 10, 2006 Something from Marcus's blog Knowledge of the Other - the unique person - as that which is not me is always an impossibility (I'm of course reducing (and diluting) it in the act of paraphrasing; which is as Derrida says an inevitability in the act of translation). The Other is almost always distinct from 'I' and I am unable to speak of the 'who' without reducing him/her into a 'what'. It is an absolute other, one that will always be inaccessible and incomprehensible. This is the condition of singularity. We exist as singularities that cannot be accessed for the condition of absolute otherness, absolute alterity, is innate in singularity. So why do we try so hard to understand others? Is that why expectations always fail? People disappoint particularly loved ones. A broken promise, an unexpected betrayal, absent meetings ... their manifestations of that alterity. We think we know someone; we expect programmed responses; we lure and anticipate remarks that we hope our words would have effected. But these always end in disappointed - because we believe we have conquered the condition of alterity. We can never, perhaps, live the ethic of 'stepping into someone else's shoe' - that is most certainly a fallacy. It would be impossible. jjia leaving skool at 5:59 PM ***
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 Name: jjia Gender: Guy Date of birth: 25th Dec 1986 Skools Attended: Anglican High School Temasek Junior College National University of Singapore ICQ: MSN : cutesim_2000@hotmail.com 
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