Thinking About Thinking Out of the Box

  General Education
           Thinking About
     Thinking Out of the Box
    (aka bubble, cave, closet,
 custom, convention, convenience)
 
When I realize I can’t think out of the
box, that realization is probably as far
out of the box as I’m able to think.
 
However, once I know how impossible
it is (to think out of the box) it becomes
possible; but once I think I can (always
a temptation) I can not.
 
It’s a language problem.
 
Once I think I’m thinking out of the
box, I’m thinking in the box about
being out of it.
 
LIKE:  once I think I’m thinking about
unconscious process, it’s  conscious
process I’m thinking with to think about
unconsciousness—like reducing  dreams
to waking life and talking about them
as if they were dream. Or Joe Fish
considering dry.  Or me thinking about
the“whole”in my partial terms of desire.  
 
Something like snarls & tangles and
loop-de-loop recursive self-reference,
contradiction & paradox is what it
takes for me to think about thinking
out of the box..
 
It’s rigorous.
 
I don’t know what it takes for you.
We could talk  about it.
 
This kind of thinking won’t skim oil
off the Gulf, save wetlands, guarantee
Democrats won’t lose seats, fill empty
beds, address unemployment….
.
Those are courses of a nother color.
Actual out-of-the-box thinking going
on maybe as opposed to but possibly
as a result of thinking about thinking
out of the box  and not just thinking
in the box. That too, but don’t want
to confuse the three: in, out, and
however you characterize the
in-between..
 
Don’t expect logic from me on these
or on any other matters for that matter.
Analogy  uber alles.  Logic's mere
handmaiden to my irrationality:
a suit of clothes: tuxedo
junction. .
 
Logic                      Analogic
all myn die               myn die
Socrates is a myn    grass dies
Socrates dies.         myn are grass.
 
What’s the difference?
What’s the relationship?
 
           Governance:
 
Which rules?  Logic or Analogic?
 Say. 
 
It makes a difference to know
the difference and not let them
collapse, conflate, and confuse
the issues.
 
Sam, you are being illogical.
 
Of course I am: analogical,
c’est moi ! 

But that’s not rational.
 
Absolutely. Not in the
common sense.  
 
The issue is: thinking out of the box,
not in the box about out. But out
about out. It’s complicated. There
are distinctions to be drawn and
and shared and sustained ,

xxxooo, Sam