![]() One of our number quickly identifies the creature and labels it for us: “a chipmunk” they say out loud. ![]() Another, knowing about such things, then explains the chipmunk’s behaviour to us in biological and physiological terms. Within a few minutes, a consensus has formed and it is easy to feel that somehow, and entirely unproblematically, we now know and understand what it is that we have just seen and experienced. ![]() ![]() Kohák’s basic point here is that “the consensus of a crowd can constitute a conventional world far too readily, far too soon.” All too eager to speak, they constitute in their consensus, a conventional image which they interpose between themselves and the living world around them.” And he concludes that, “eafened by consensus, we lack the humility to watch the chipmunk, busy at its tasks, to let him present himself.” Kohák uses this story to point out that “hen two or three are gathered together, they seldom have the patience of letting be, of listening and seeing. Kohák realised that to see the chipmunk as it presents itself - or, indeed, to see anything else in this world as it presents itself - we need to find ways to suspend this consensus making by bracketing it off in some fashion. ![]()
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