On what you can’t say. (A thread!)
But the case of “you know a thing, consciously, but you can’t say it” — it seems like sometimes an inconvenience but not a tragedy. How bad it is depends on the situation, right? Sometimes you get killed, sometimes you lose friends and funding, sometimes you get lonely...
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But these seem like costs, not tragedies. Not every bad thing that happens is a tragedy. Not even every bad thing that *inevitably* happens is a tragedy; some seem more like “the reality we must accept.” (Eg entropy; I don’t think the mature perspective sees it as tragic.)
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The emotional force of watching a tragedy, I think, comes from the internal struggle between “I don’t want this bad ending” and “but it’s inevitable.” Rehearsing that losing fight against the inevitable in order to learn to accept it.
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Epistemic tragedy. Nobody dies. But if you can’t say it to others, you can’t think about it with them. So it stays there, at a lower stage of development.
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sometimes art let's people imagine the unthinkable together. This can be a good or bad thing obvs.
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Here's a related question: if you can't say X, how do you know if you actually "know" X? If you can't say it, it'd seem to preclude further investigation to test your hypothesis beyond specific cases you can observe in your immediate environs within your own ability ..
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I think this is exactly right.
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