A tension within
There is indeed a tension within our mixedness: we needs must hold all of it, we are a wholeness, not this nor that.
:- Doug.
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Tangles of diversities?
Can we grow human? Should we concern ourselves with the root stock? Toward what direction? Toward being aware there might be a direction? Toward choice? Toward not making a choice, rather growing diversities in tangles of diversities? Is profusion a high good? Are there high and low, desirable and undesirable?
:- Doug.
Mixedness
Perhaps it is our complexity makes us human, our very mixedness, our unfinishedness, our indefinability. And so do cyborg aspects in fact make us more human?
:- Doug.
Disquiet. Shiver.
To be tough on self and others, to have an edge, is bigger than worthy. Disquiet. Shiver.
:- Doug.
Filet knife, turned on self
This goading, shiver-inducing, disquieting is beyond oughts and shoulds, all the way to Bolton’s reflection and reflexivity. It is a filet knife, turned on self, not to kill or eat but to find life, free it.
:- Doug.
Now some time to reflect
Now some time to reflect and rest and find my direction for this day.
:- Doug.
His center cannot hold
The center cannot hold
While he at the axis of his political orbit
Wobbles
:- Doug.
Goals are easy
Goals are easy: easy to get, easy to discard, easy for bosses to manage. Purpose and meanings are far more difficult. And useful.
:- Doug.
The world intrudes
The pandemic, against our wont, on our lives causes the world to intrude.
:- Doug.
Bedrock turns to air
Where
bedrock turns to air
we stand
we stand aside ourselves
we spring
:- Doug.
A 3-hour interview
If you were granted a 3-hour interview with a person of your age alive 300 years from now, what questions and themes would you explore together?
:- Doug.
Get beyond tired with being tired
We need somehow to get beyond being tired with being tired; perhaps immerse ourselves in this pandemic moment. What do you think?
:- Doug.
