Not many people know how passionately dedicated they are to the society which they can not stand. Unaware of their living in contradiction they live in conflict. Not many people know how passionately dedicated they are to the society which can not stand them. Unaware of their living in conflict they live in contradiction. Nobody can stand not being stood.
Nobody wishes to admit that.
This proper English falsification underlies the prose and poetry written about Arnold Schoenberg by those of his friends and followers who, once his apologetic avowers, today, equally apologetically, disavow him. It is an underlie, because it is not at all difficult to understand why one is not un- derstood, and that one is not stood because one is understood, and that one can not stand that which one understands precisely because one does. Not many people know that a discovered contradiction needs to be pro- tected against apologetic explanations reducing it to mere conflict. Even fewer people know that conflicts can be resolved within the system in which they are said to be conflicts, and that contradictions can not. To turn contradictions into conflicts is the concern of the reformer who criticizes the flaws in a desired system.