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Flat White

A voice of emotion, not reason – of judgment, not mercy

15 April 2023

5:00 AM

15 April 2023

5:00 AM

We humans have always been emotional. It is part of who we are as self-conscious beings. But the use of emotion as a basis for truth in discussions about the Voice belongs more to the theatre of the absurd than intelligent reasoning.

Even that comparison may be unfair to the masters of the absurd as I see much more challenge to deep thought in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot than I do in much of what is currently swirling around the Voice.

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