A Post on Points

The production of points encouraged writing in the classical age and meant the exchange of information could be freely brought about. A consideration of size in terms of mind encouraged academics to employ a season of reason. Points suggested themselves easily when we stretched ourselves to make them. Their actual suggestion leads to the additional employment of poetry since it colours and texturalises the prose in which these points can be made. Their production, of which this sentence is a part, takes importance in the courting of the opposite sex. A point can be made subtly or explicitly, both of which have their uses. Point making has been a multiply beneficial skill since man was able to communicate with words and this fact continued to be played out till this day. Future points will astonish, inform, please, adjust, and orientate similarly to past and present ones. Point making is no doubt important because of the sense factor involved. If you can make a point you can almost do anything. Essentially, points should be made about something and many books have been written containing them. For example, Thomas Nagel wrote a book called ‘Mortal Questions’ that contained points explaining such themes as death, the absurd, equality, sex, and law. Emmanuel Levinas’ book ‘Totality and Infinity’ was really an elucidation of the points of exteriority in philosophical prose. Indeed, ‘History of Madness’ written by Michael Foucault expressed thousands of points.

A point educates where its lacking may frustrate. Points about madness, for example, may centre on the general liberating of the so called insane, or they may seek a terrain of generalisation. The latter point has served to stigmatise the mentally ill, while the former one clarifies and aids their cause. Point making has always been a process linked to sensibility, so whether an example constitutes the positive or the negative, each will have grounded its salience in culpability. My point is this: points are good; they create understanding. So make more.

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