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[watertank]

...when Confucius, the most famous and revered East Asian teacher, was asked by his students to tell them the meaning of athoritative personhood or jen - the conceptual pivot of his entire philosophy - he refrained from ever giving them a a definition. In diametric opposition to the Platonic insistence on defining essences, Confucius related paradigmatic stories. Knowing what a word means is not knowing what it signifies, but how to conduct oneself in situations where it is used.

Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age. By Peter D. Hershock .p. 6

see also Eleanor Rosch, http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/erosch2007.pdf

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[watertank.livejournal.com]

The arts, education, and even death are all being packaged fro maximum marketability and being rendered both increasingly expensive and productive. Wht the advent of worldwide system for multimedia communication, even the values on which our cultures are based are being turned into commodities and subjected to the market demand of fashion.

[watertank.livejournal.com]

... at the most elemental level, what corporations must do is attract attention, and the more the better.