Alex dubbed the things I say and relate “Evaisms”, and suggested that I make a Tumblr page by that name as a receptacle/showcase for them. That would be a terrible hubris on my part*, thought I. Also, it turned out that eVaisms as a Tumblr name is already taken; it’s a collection of titillating images, with, perhaps, more immediate gratifaxion than I’ll pile up here.
So why then, if not Evaisms, are we called “That Is The Case?”. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus, a strong-ass piece of philosophical work that is (accidentally?) some of the most profound poetry ever written states: “The world is all that is the case”. In Tractatus, Wittgenstein is looking for the relationship between language and reality, a pursuit that began in the trenches of WWI, baby. “The limits of my language are the limits of my world” is the finest of his axioms from the Tractatus (opinion). It’s a great statement to throw into conversations, and a magnificent thinking-point. Also it’s a darling among classy bloggists. And I’m not trying kill our darlings or reinvent the….
*We’ll see…I just did it, and that is the case.