I think that dozens of broken bones, chronic pain and many other aspects of OI are intrinsic bad things -- which is not to say that I deserve pity or that my life is miserable.
John Sicher, the editor and publisher of Beverage Digest, told me, "What Pepsi didn't do with Refresh was sell the brand intrinsics — the things that make you want to drink it".
They explained that universals could be considered as concepts (universals post rem—'following the thing'), as intrinsic to bodily things (universals in re—'in the thing') and as really existing and separate from bodies (universals ante rem—'before the thing').
In the most radical form of this critique, the practice of objectivity assuming that observed regularities reflect the intrinsic natures of things, and treating those things accordingly when adopted by those in power, produces the very regularities taken to vindicate that assumption.
And of course I must admit to an intrinsic love of things that are vaguely subversive.
Avid sharp-eyed alert gleaming and beaming as she always was on our old bus expeditions downtown with a vigilance keen and serene and hands entities sentient and shrewd cunningly separate from her evolved to analyze things' intrinsic or better overlooked worth as they collate the goods on their racks — a blouse in silk and on sale!
My own ancestors had floated down the Danube on a combination of a pigskin inner tubes and a somewhat overblown sense not only of their own expertise in cooperage and smelting copper and telling whopper after whopper but the intrinsic importance of things Celtic.
In fact, it's as though there is no actual "technique" of defamiliarization at work in his prose at all; he reveals the intrinsic strangeness of things (and people) without the need for any particular cunning in the formation of his sentences.
It is a turning away from an arguably aristocratic idea of the intrinsic worth of things: from pleasure, with its sense of an internal condition of mind, to fun, so closely affiliated with outward activities; from excellence, an inner trait whose attainment is its own reward, to achievement, which comes through slogging and recognition.
