Bi-Stability
"An educational system of this sort
[the bi-stable form of the rhetorical paideia] does not need to deny our
need for absolutes; it domesticates and controls that need. In
its natural oscillation, the rhetorical paideia . . . would keep the peace
by preventing us from filtering the self-interest and self-consciousness
out of our most profoundly disinterested convictions and then committing
atrocities in their name." Lanham
at 111.
Is this bi-stable business really
so important?
Atrocities?
A Little Game Might Make The
Point