Mason

So meaning isn't this fixed thing out there. It's created in how we use language and even the act of writing itself. But how does this work with like interpreting a book? Do we all get the same meaning?

So meaning isn't this fixed thing out there. It's created in how we use language and even the act of writing itself. But how does this work with like interpreting a book? Do we all get the same meaning?

Between the reader and the text.

Between the reader and the text.

It's not like a puzzle with one solution. It's more like a recipe. Same ingredients, but everyone's dish tastes a little different.

It's not like a puzzle with one solution. It's more like a recipe. Same ingredients, but everyone's dish tastes a little different.

Their own experience.

Their own experience.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This is blowing my mind. And now we get to this like crazy question Derrida asks. Is this whole logo-centric way of thinking, this search for solid meaning, is it just a Western thing?

This is blowing my mind. And now we get to this like crazy question Derrida asks. Is this whole logo-centric way of thinking, this search for solid meaning, is it just a Western thing?

Are you saying some cultures don't even think like this at all?

Are you saying some cultures don't even think like this at all?

Yeah. Take the K'iche' Maya, for example.

Yeah. Take the K'iche' Maya, for example.

Their whole culture values oral tradition, the way stories change over time.

Their whole culture values oral tradition, the way stories change over time.

Right.

Right.