Well at least I know what I'm doing up this time

[lizzie_marie_23]

Forget everything I ever said about TOK being the coolest thing ever. It kills your brain by making your imagination work too hard on things you already thought you knew about. If I try to translate it into Narnia in this state of mind, Mr Tumnus will go out looking for the White Witch so she can turn him into stone because he is so overwhelmed by

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[zempasuchil]

Clearly this means TOK is flawed :)) you're describing a weird trauma resulting from a structure being unable to assimilate new elements, right? Marshall Sahlins's book Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities tackles this problem of structuralism pretty well - he says that cultural structures are not so rigid, and there is trauma, but people act as agents and incorporate such contingencies into their structure and by doing so transform it

[lizzie_marie_23]

Actually, this means that I am flawed as a learner. I personally am having issues with questioning things I had always believed to be true. Like the idea that my explanation of a situation (on the inside) would be different from how an anthropologist, looking at the same situation, would talk about the social and cultural imperatives that make me do something like this (whatever it is

[zempasuchil]

But anthropology already knows that objectivity means you have to have a distance from the culture - nobody within a culture is supposed to be totally fine with this outsider's view of their culture, or even be able to make these observations, because their worldview is constructed and tinted by it. So, you're only as flawed as every other learner!

There's also the issue that Lewis is very intentionally dealing with faith, so when Edmund and Peter and Susan don't believe Lucy it's because they have no empirical evidence. For all the professor says about logic, he's only talking about some chain of reason, but empiricism has no place in the faith that Lewis is trying to promote. They aren't overwhelmed at first because they're simply incredulous. Later, when they experience the new world, they eventually have to be credulous because it's empirical

[lizzie_marie_23]

Um, I originally answered this as a comment to my own post, so that explains why you haven't answered it. *facepalm*I'm going to answer these in opposite order again, because that's the way I roll