Remy Says I'm Crazy

Remy keeps saying I'm crazy. Always under the same circumstances. We're typically involved in a long conversation, or a deep narrative thread is going on. Then I reach a conclusion, that to me that is organic, logically dictated by the constructs of the issues at hand, obvious, although sometimes at the edges of the limits of what might be acceptable. These are the points where Remy says I am crazy.

Now, Remy ought to know better. He has a wide constellation of talents himself, including the ability to generate constructs that have many parallel threads, or many slight divergent yet becoming convergent threads. This can be seen in his films, in his social skills, in his global perceptions of issues.

His comments, which he downplays, to me reflect a typically American anti-intellectualism, which, when coming from the intellectuals themselves, yes, is cause for notice.

I once had a teacher who, when asked directly, what his first instinctual reaction to anything he hadn't seen before was "It's bullshit." He was a hack, and he wasn't going to change the world.

(ha, intellectualism isn't even in the blogger dictionary)