MacMania: You should avoid reading "through lenses". You should read, as Kant said, with an unjaundiced eye. You should read the black letters, not the white space between them. There's nothing in the white space. Contextualizing is relativizing. It's a form of distortion and dishonesty, an excuse to state one's opinions, an excuse to insert one's own preferred meaning into the white space rather than read the meaning contained in the text itself. Sneaking name-calling into your example isn't nearly as clever as you think. It doesn't bolster your case and it doesn't make you look impressive. Quite the opposite.

Last edited by deniro; 11/22/19 02:17 PM.