Reality makes me sleepy*
May. 21st, 2012 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7As ever, the key is to not simply talk, but to do things, & then talk about what you do. Made more difficult when your Doing is mostly Talking.
I guess, then, that we have to do a lot of other things-- work a lot of other places, with a lot of other people, in a lot of other contexts-- so that, when we talk, when we discuss the remaking and remodeling and reunderstanding of this world, we do so from an informed place.
Speak from a place of having been as close to "being there" as you can. Know what you're talking about.
In other news, If I ever say something like "you're almost there," please realise that I probably don't mean some progressivist conception of "thereness," some teleological "end point" toward which we're all tripping, traipsing, stumbling, but rather that I probably mean that you're almost to the place where you realise that there is no "There" there.
The recognition that there is no "way things are," that there is nothing of this universe but out attempts to describe it, as flawed as those ever are.
Things "Are," and whatever words we use to talk about that being gives us different vantages on the "nature" of the "thing."
Good night.
*Alternate title: "There's no There There, you bonny king of Nowhere."
I guess, then, that we have to do a lot of other things-- work a lot of other places, with a lot of other people, in a lot of other contexts-- so that, when we talk, when we discuss the remaking and remodeling and reunderstanding of this world, we do so from an informed place.
Speak from a place of having been as close to "being there" as you can. Know what you're talking about.
In other news, If I ever say something like "you're almost there," please realise that I probably don't mean some progressivist conception of "thereness," some teleological "end point" toward which we're all tripping, traipsing, stumbling, but rather that I probably mean that you're almost to the place where you realise that there is no "There" there.
The recognition that there is no "way things are," that there is nothing of this universe but out attempts to describe it, as flawed as those ever are.
Things "Are," and whatever words we use to talk about that being gives us different vantages on the "nature" of the "thing."
Good night.
*Alternate title: "There's no There There, you bonny king of Nowhere."
