Derrida on Starting Strength... is this real life?
by Max Blochowiak
[I]f two people have the same musculoskeletal abnormality and the same healing intervention is applied to both but one’s pain goes away and the other’s does not, what is the purpose of that leftover pain? What is its purpose if it is not actually protecting us from danger? Why is it so unreliable? What do we make of pain in a phantom limb, one that has been amputated or lost catastrophically?
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Derrida on Starting Strength... is this real life?
Thank you Max, for this article. I enjoyed it immensely, and am pretending to have learned something. "Every person will experience pain, and organic decay is an unavoidable feature of biology. The question is not how one rids themselves of that which is natural, but how to manage that which is inevitable." I will be sure to read your other articles.