Poor proletariat whale! He's on his way to clock in and look pretty on the cover of my very first zine. Anyhow, I'm sure you can understand my absence from the blog considering I was writing for the zine. What is a zine, you ask? Simply, it is a blog you can clutch and press to your heart (or some may say its a blog for chumps).Anyhow, as usual, my ideas form (or step out of the mist of my grey matter) while I'm working on a piece to express those very ideas. Is this a case of acting before I think (aka hoof in mouth disease) or do my ideas only exist after they're articulated? Sounds like a linguists wet dream (linguists have notoriously subtle fantasies).
The entire zine unintentionally focused on reality as its mediated for us by different things. Wow, vague, I know. I'm not looking for anything metaphysical - I'm not your suburban wiccan (no offense small town witches) . Its really rather boring, but I think thats the point of it all.
The boredom of the summer is erasing all of me. Arguably, (but let's not argue - you say potato, I say tomato) memory is a creative act. There is no film or harddrive in our head. Everytime we remember something we re-create the narrative as accurately (or really however we see fit) as possible (considering we group many unconnected incedents into a narrative in the first place makes memory dubious). Think about a lot of your memories - do you see yourself instead of see from yourself?
Anyhow, as everything we see, hear, feel, etc. is mediated by our mind, our life is in the perpetual past. Given, the spark travels pretty quick from eye/ear/fingers to our thinking machine, but it still takes time. Okay: our memories are creative and our "present" is really in the perpetual past. Oh man, I think I'm hyperventilating, I'll be right back...
I'm sure you drew all sorts of weird conclusions while I got my paper bag, but to get to the boring point of it all that I spoke of. If the present is really memory the first time its remembered and memory itself is a creative act what happens when its boring? I'll level with you here: my life is crazy boring. Honestly 90% of my day is habit: work, eat, sleep, type blog, blah, blah, and blah. If our mind were a TV, reality were a show, and memories were re-runs, would I care to watch any of it? Honestly: no.
I'm not getting all nihilistic on you here (trust me: number one descriptor of yours truly: spunky). I just think I'm starting to understand Marcel Proust's point when he says that habit is what kills us.
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"...metaphysical - I'm not your suburban wiccan"...
ReplyDeleteOk, Well Metaphysics is what Aristotle referred to as "The First Philosophy". Its important for us to get this strait because it is the links and branches to everything,a teaching based off of cosmology & ontology,everything in nature linked all the way up to the highest power (am I saying we are in some for God?...Stop thinking so much...), connected to ourselves and neighbors.
ENTER the "NEW AGERS"! They have turned a very spiritual and scientific philosophy into some odd taboo according to those who walk past their wacky named shops.
In other words, The kid with six different rocks around his neck, dragon statues in his room and an uncontrollable love for Rennasaince fairs, has gone and put the word "Metaphysics" in his sock drawer with his magic cards ruining any worth while credit the original philosophy had to offer.
So, I guess im saying Aristotle might be a little confused if he were alive today.Looking at all the cleansing sage sticks and hemp bath bars, wondering how it all got so "Metaphysical".
Now this has nothing to do with what you wrote about...I just thought I would rant.
I LOVE HOW MUCH YOU talk about the idea of how its all just happening now. I mean Ive been working it out in my head for years and it always flat out levels me.
The only thing that really exists is the infinite Snap, Snap, Snap, Snap, of the Universe. Everything else is neither here nor their, just what amounts to an always constant SNAP. Thats how I feel.
Send me the Zine.
I just ordered one of your boring zines or "blog for chumps" that you can hold in your hands. Actually it looks amusing and I like the wale. :)
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