The tool says IS.
The living body says Could/Will Be.
A tool functions within a defined situation of known criteria.
A tool functions properly or improperly, serves its function or not.
A tool relies on a living body for these determinations (definitions, criteria, goals, functions).
A living body is always in the process of being otherwise than it is, always changing.
A living body is the origin and basis of tools.
Many animals seem to generate something like tools.
The human body generates a dilemma regarding tools.
The tool says Is. The human body says Could Be. The tool, sometimes, says No.
This is a problem arising from the generational inheritance of tools.
The next generation is a collection of living bodies that says Could Be, Want to Be.
The previous generation of tools says No, how you want your body TO BE is no longer compatible with the tools that ARE.
This becomes all the more troubling and intense when we recognize that symbols and tools are essentially identical.
A hammer is above all the idea of a hammer, a symbol pointing to one object that can break or drive another object.
The symbol possesses an ambiguity, however.
The symbol, as tool, says IS.
The symbol, as product and consequence of a living body, points towards that body's Could/Will Be.
Somehow this is the basis of tragedy.
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