We are not so much trapped in our own minds and lives as we are trapped and bound by and in those of others. Personal dissatisfaction and unhappiness is common, perhaps ubiquitous, and is at base a shared endeavour; for all its dissonance and discomfort, it must be assumed that it is a property of […]
This is what we all see when we close our eyes and look deep inside. It is imperfect, discontinuous, fractured and incomplete. This is also why it is beautiful. The world is a broken symmetry and imperfect self-reflection and this is exactly why there is diversity, complexity, creativity and life. Some things can only manifest […]
It is an interesting thought that while we all appear to possess some degree of free will and self-determination, and beyond the intractable differences of a diversity of philosopical (and, let’s face it – political) thought on the matter, much of our mental lives are shaped and patterned by the contexts that we find ourselves […]
These masks of self obscure only the fact of their own emptiness.
Only nothing comes from nothing and only nothing is effortlessly produced…
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
The core experience and sense or perception of self is real, but the self is not.
Utopian approximations towards self-organisation is emergent under sufficient circumstances and in well-tuned resonances.
What if there was nothing at all?
We are bound by fear to our Objects and fantasies of Other and Self as much as by desire and there is a complex logical undercurrent and rationale to the ways that we (enigmatically) encrypt aversion into attraction and revulsion or death into fertility and life.
The logical necessity of recursively enigmatic self-propagation remains mysterious and somehow also essential for life and sentience.
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
Daedelus Kite 