Re: prototypical scripts

Richard Thieme (rthieme who-is-at lifeworks.com)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 06:37:34 -0600

>What if you treat a script as a cultural ideal form? What if its power
>resides PRECISELY in the fact that it "doesn't match any particular
>manifestation." Right. Scripts are conventions. They are mediators/
>artifacts. They mediate/constrain/enable interaction. But any script
>must be "embodied" in a dramatic performance, the conduct of everyday
>life.

are you suggesting that a script is a paradigm of paradigms? I have thought
a bit about that in relationship to the spiral of spiritual transformation
which underlies western traditions - the spiral can be identified and
delineated - the key thing is that it is recognizable both as a form in and
of itself AND as a form of other forms. It becomes incarnate however, if you
will, in flesh and blood here and now nitty gritty realities - in and
through which the form of all of the forms can be clearly discerned
nevertheless.

The process by which the form of other forms is known to be that which is
incarnate in the diveristy of "solid" forms in the world is of course the
sticky wicket.
Richard Thieme