Apo-calypse Now
UNFOLD! UNFOLD!
"Mere purposive rationality, unaided by such
phenomena as art, religion, dream, and the
like, is necessarily pathogenic and destructive
of life.
And its virulence springs specifically from the
circumstances that life depends on circuits of
contingency, while consciousness can see
only such short arcs of such circuits as
human purpose may direct "
Gregory Bateson " Steps to an Ecology of Mind."
Put this in play. It beautifully undercuts everything:
aims, goals, measurable outcomes, purposive
Ego Consciousness, explanation, interpretation,
reasons-why, cause & effect, because & effect,
blamation scapegoating--cerebral habits and
habitats, convention, convenience. A good thing.
(May we argue?)
Note:
these notions are esoteric,"academic" & deal
with non-immediately gratifying shape-shifting
possible
game-changing "environmental" ideas and don't in any
direct way impinge or infringe on commerce &
converse,
political & family affairs, recruitment or
retention, holiday
cheer, & day-to-day busyness, pets & food
& raising
children and such like.
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