A GOODIE is a wanna-be-good
so bad, can’t afford the bad-
it-takes to get good.
Here is the “horror” (from a humanistic standpoint)
of Creative Process: that we have to have a PROBLEM
in order to learn what it means to become “creative”—
to realize our ”genius,” “idios daemon,” unique spirit,
originality, individuality, talent, calling…
No one loves this awesome, awful IDEA:
“Soon or later we are GUARANTEED to come to a crisis
or impasse. We suffer though a period of intense buildup
of pressure, during which we may come to feel we are at
the end of our rope, that there is simply no way to solve
the problem. We have to become hopelessly stuck.”
Steven Nackmanopvitch: Free Play: Improvisation in
Life and Art
Frustration, suffering, disappointment, failure, break-down,
bottoming out: prerequisite for liberal art. The Greeks called
it Elenchus-to-Aporia. Elenchus: the undercutting of all
conscious & ego-rational support & understanding…
“losing it.”
Aporia: literally—no pores, no openings, no escape, no exit, stuck,
trapped—having eaten too much too much honey & can’t budge
in or out.
This total stuck-ness and out of control-ness is considered the
prerequisite state of mind for philosophy—or, say, the liberal art.
When the “ripening” can begin. Not before.
[[When my daughter turned to me and said, “Everyone knows
bears can’t talk Daddy,” I knew our Winnie the Pooh times
were over for – I was going to say good – ever.]]
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