The group considers this a good point. The couch potato reacts as if to a hot stove, then back to distraction. Still, the group maintains that questioning clearly outlined positions and arguments is easy compared to questioning the implicit or even noticing it.
With Chomsky so many are triggered: perhaps by innate knowledge (linguistics) perhaps by positions on Israel or the US, etc. The neon sign of the Chomsky position makes an easy to notice starting point, and many questioners will snap to. He’s in your face, an icon. Pretty much demands to be questioned.
But the implicit authorities, who need not write books, make assertions then try to back them up, they are hardly even noticed. Wheat from the chaff, the group thinks, notices these. Intuits them, feels them first until they can be noticed more clearly.
Even couch potatoes notice Grand Canyons, if only on the screen. But do they notice the authority in distraction. In what is not said. In dead metaphors. In grammar. In body language. In their senses or is it ‘senses’. In cultural habit. In both folk and professional psychology, and of course in the whole pharma psychiatric view of the self they don’t even have to argue for anymore. As some examples…
In the ones who do not seem to posture, in the authorities that have no single body nor lecture on their position…the group thinks these are more often left unquestioned. Chomsky takes stands, even weak questioners notice something is happening to mull over.
The identification as teacher, as guide, is pride in the nostrils, a reification in a portion of the group, WHILE questioning does not care for this or that portion of the group, just in the quest itself, the moving toward, the undoing of what binds, the shutting off of the TV and mulling what the dynamic is where information pours toward the couch potato, the couch potato in all the group portions becoming a center instead of just a receptacle. There’s the rub.
The group need not love the group, the group need not TELL the group.
The group can question and the group will notice this, especially when the questioning is specific.
The appeal, the need, the advantage will be driving.
No need for the driver to keep asserting his specialness, it is the driving itself that drives him or her.
When the driver focuses on himself and his position, he is not watching the road. He cannot question; he is broadcasting. He is another (tv) program.
In such a state he should not simply be questioned, but replaced. For then he is in love with his authority and cannot focus on the details of the road, their absence in his speech always apparant. In love with his own gifts and the role he seeks. Next he will tell us his son is a genius and in line for sucession.
The group SHOWS, in the nittty gritty. It questions in front of itself, authority after authority, through the specific, and the group learns from itself, joins itself. It is not told by a portion that wishes to be proud of its role, it is SHOWN. Learning by doing and who cares if it’s Dewey (outside).