If we're artists or poets we may develop a "late style" of the kind noted by Edward Said, which "has the power exactly to render disenchantment and pleasure without resolving the contradiction between them".
He is on a video, so I can't interrupt him (Didn't Hubble have blurred vision and need glasses as soon as it was launched?) Chuck tells me, without acknowledging the contradiction, that the technology is bleeding-edge new but also reassuringly old and therefore safe as houses.
That's what we're often subjected to in the fracking debate, and it even makes us engage in what George Orwell called "doublethink" -- the perverse ability to hold two contradictory beliefs as correct in our minds without noticing the contradiction.
"The great temptation for a biographer of an iconic figure," writes Marable, "is to portray him or her as a virtual saint, without the normal contradictions and blemishes all human beings have.
The text isn't without ambiguity (although some of the contradictions might easily be credited to the speed at which it was written) and there's an independent first-person narrator who shouldn't just be seen as a mouthpiece of the author, even if he might not have much in the way of character.
Obviously, the contradictions cannot be resolved without costly frictions.
"If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.
With or without linkage fees, the contradiction in our housing policy will remain.
My movies are often about "straight-identified" males who nonetheless willingly and enthusiastically have homosexual sex (hustlers, neo-Nazis, what have you) without really registering the contradiction.
But to build a fence without a border, and without facing up to the contradiction of having Jews on both sides of it, will only bring more troubles.
