Most we know comes from respectable sources.
Respectability is too big a filter. Tying
message to identity is a sort of violence:
"Anchor your mind. Keep your utterances to
a measurable area."
I think we need to push on outwards from the mainstream thought.
Not in order to get anything tangible out of it, but more as an
excercise in orienting ourselves and carving out a bigger area
of dimness from the total blackness beyond the limits set by
taboos.
Taboos are heavily guarded. They are being driven further out
from the beaten paths. There is the hysterical flock of
well-meaning good citizens who will mess you up like piranhas in
case you happen to bring a taboo to a public space. And everywhere
is public now.
A taboo is a ghost of sorts. It is hard to define (especially a
fruitful one) and it is impossible to defend. To meet a taboo
means altering yourself from the set parameters of the culture
that marked the taboo. You have to see something in there that
most will not see and will fight to not see. This makes a taboo
indefensible. You cannot force anyone to look at what you see.
There is a feeling of pushing through a membrane when saying
anything about a taboo. You know that each taboo you speak of
will drive away some amount of people, maybe angers some. You are
basically chipping away at any respect you might have had.
But how else are you going to find anything interesting? All the
easy ways are so much travelled, the path has been lost under
the footsteps of the legion.
