I get a little weary of philosophy. It fascinates and intrigues, has its spectacular, glittering moments of what feels like beauty and “accomplishment” – like architecture, the sciences and arts, studies human and social and hard. But with each human activity and behavior there can be too much of a good thing. Perhaps it’s the fantasies involved in abstraction – in the feeling of “figuring things out,” or of “making sense” – our human super-additives to experience that are also experience themselves – that I, at times, weary of. That eminently falsifiable intuition that everything is made up.
It is extremely hard work to keep up a worldview. Involving enormous complexities and details, layer up on layer and strand interweaving strand of biological and logical, illogical, psychological, irrational, emotional, – ologies and descriptions, manipulated perceptions and re-interpretations of interpretations reinterpreted (ad infinitum) – it takes matter and energy, and particular organisms, which grow tired.
Those same realities, capacities and activities are also extremely inspiring, enervating and exciting for organisms – the behaviors of productivity, creativity, imagination and survival – and our weird confounding capacity to think we can observe our perceptions/observations to an infinite regress, make for a very strange frenzy of energy and matter indeed.
In a possibly (?!) infinitely webbed interdependence with our surround copious possibilities of activity are available – all bewildering: chaos can be so generative. Chaos can be so nullifying.
What might we know?
And why do we want to?
- That we are organism within dynamic systems? (How would we know that, from within the systems?)
- That we are dynamic organisms alongside other dynamic forms of matter and energy? (Sometimes seems to be our sense of it – that we might somehow step aside – wha-?!)
and…so…what!?
Alongside and within – in order to be – apparently (that is, according to OUR OWN perceptions) – however would could we exist either detached (abstracted) or without (independently, unattached). To imagine distance, “objectivity,” without the imaginative capacities of fantasy – illusions – for example logic, mathematics, economics, philosophy, psychology – codes and symbols – DElusions in order to play the games in these forms of life we are with delusional sincerity – effectively. And our fantastic delusions or profound poeitic creations are often effective, productive, pragmatic, dynamic and evolving – techniques and time – which would seem to imply that they also are part of being within a myriad of dynamic systems…
…one might suppose (i.e. “hypothesize”); or infer (i.e. “fantasize”)
All an immersion in symbols – languages – stipulated relations – codified behaviors –
– which is what I had set out to consider
drowning in symbols
the wonder and bewilderment of it
the sense of delusion and ecstasy
being human…
It is by our own constructs that we attempt to categorize, label, and manipulate the intricacies of the life we see around us. Time, derived as a mechanism for us to ponder and measure moments that gather and cluster as hours, days, weeks, etc… Fallible in and of their own measure, but part of the means by which we make “sense” of our individual realities. The measurement of a life, on any stretch of the imagination string, does not always move in a linear fashion, perhaps that is why fiction is such a prominent form of human enjoyment.
i tend to “think” so – thanks for reading
Good lord, man, I loved this!
significant gratitude toward you
No, thank you! This one excited my mind 🙂
even better
I participate in philosophy so that I can parcel myself and think to the point of it all collapsing. To get to my utmost limits of being human and then set myself free. A transmutation. I sense this transmutation in your writing often. And the best art. Thank you.
“think to the point of it all collapsing”… and then you have already anticipated all that I might eventually say. Thank you for reading, taking that time, commenting, being.
philosophy fatigue – that must definitely be a thing, I bet the Germans have a word for it.