In need of repair

Reached home too late last night to send the cycle for repair and a bit of servicing. If I don't manage it today, I will miss out on the weekend ride.

Not a lot happening today. This week hasn't been as energetic has the last couple of ones. But as long as there's something on the plate, some unanswered questions, it's a good sign. The weekend might be interesting.

"Kant called his thesis that our a priori thoughts are independent of sense data and screen what we see a "Copernican revolution." By this he referred to Copernicus? statement that the earth moves around the sun. Nothing changed as a result of this revolution, and yet everything changed. Or, to put it in Kantian terms, the objective world producing our sense data did not change, but our a priori concept of it was turned inside out. The effect was overwhelming. It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors."

Phaedrus' faith in reason is the paradox it all begins with and volumes of thought unravel it. If I were to point my finger immediately at the irony of his quest, mock his underlying doubt in reason, and skip the text as a result, it would simply be a testament to my failure to acknowledge the "journey" aspect of life and give it its due importance.