Humanity and human life is not, could never be, the measure of all things beyond those metrics and structures we inscribe (like transient, flickering neon lights) upon the darkness of cosmic depth…
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Building Blocks
It seems that we require the constant validation of the simplest narrative building blocks and a recurrent reinforcement of superficial trivialities…
Attempting to keep track of the endlessly unfurling Baroque curlicues and relentlessly iterating patterned flows of information and interpreted or shifting meanings leaves little time for big-picture comprehension or analysis…
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Dreams without Meaning
Should we be afraid that to discover that there is no intrinsic meaning to our dreams is also to unfurl some great banner of revelatory catharsis pronouncing our own essential non-existence ?
Axiomatic emptiness…
…we are living in an accelerating moment in which the sane and rational present paradigm might become the quaint or absurdly inconsistent (or at least incomplete) assumption of an earlier era…
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Stop
We are like the origami cranes which once unfolded reveal themselves as merely being the blank sheets of paper that they always were…
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Circular
“…human knowledge must always be content to accept some terms as intelligible without definition…:
Like moths to some narcotic flame…
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Aesthetics, Language, History
It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]
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Existentialist Angst
To me – there is no meaning but that which we make. The burden of self-determination is not as soothing as faith must be and for this reason, in my agnostic isolation, I can not fully avoid a mild envy at the joys and certainties your faith provides you. Even if I do not share it (faith), I deeply respect it… Sisyphus’ burden is not that of the Believer…
There is no winning hand. Existentially, we are all (and all end up) in the same place. If you are confident to think that you have found a solution to our shared enigma, please don’t find yourself so insecure about it that you feel obligated to force it upon others. Eschatological solutions are often poorly […]
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