tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post3193999369129388189..comments2023-11-02T05:19:59.640-05:00Comments on Delusions of Truth: The streetlight and the keysKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post-39142208524079763772014-03-21T00:33:55.289-05:002014-03-21T00:33:55.289-05:00I appreciate the points you made here, but I could...I appreciate the points you made here, but I couldn't help pull away a slightly different moral of the story than you did.<br /><br />The seems to me that he is using the only available tool to him, even though it doesn't serve him. It is a way of saying we have the right tools, but not in the right places. I saw it as a critique of society, of our blindness to the solution even as we have good tools for the job. We just can't figure out where to best employ them.<br /><br />It also seemed to me important that the protagonist was a drunk. It seemed a deliberate story detail designed to make the moral of the story more ambiguous for those inclined to laugh at his plight. Yet it is that laughter which incriminates their ignorance. <br /><br />Your points about acquiring more and better tools seems ...beside the point. There are apparently appropriate tools and even willing helpers (the cop). What the situation lacked was good sense and a well organized society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com