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:— ''Hamlet'', III, ii}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}Knowledge about the world one gains, first-hand, by living through it. | :— ''Hamlet'', III, ii}}{{dpn|/lɪvd ɪksˈpɪərɪəns/|n}}Knowledge about the world one gains, first-hand, by living through it. | ||
Knowledge that is joyously ''subjective'', and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through insidious social institutions like our education, socialisation, government and the calculating fingers of the media. | Knowledge that is joyously ''subjective'', and not the quasi-objective, pseudo-knowledge by which we are all systematically indoctrinated through insidious social institutions like our education, socialisation, government, the corporate chumocracy and, to the extent it is any different, the calculating fingers of the media. | ||
Each person’s “lived experience” is necessarily unique and, taken ''ad absurdum'', unavailable — literally “[[ineffable]]” — to | Each person’s “lived experience” is necessarily unique and, taken ''ad absurdum'', unavailable — literally “[[ineffable]]” — to another. Which is true, of all of us, but makes you wonder what its value really is, except by way of unconditional surrender to the human condition. | ||
This calls to mind a stanza in one of the JC’s favourite Ogden Nash poems: | This calls to mind a stanza in one of the JC’s favourite Ogden Nash poems: | ||