Thinking

[constant escape]

So yes, a difficult question to answer.

 

[luka]

Interesting that you find this very difficult. I will ponder the implications.

 

[constant escape]

I find it difficult and frustrating. If I could bypass words entirely and share my mind with you, I think it would answer the question.

 

[luka]

Ok, do that then.

 

[constant escape]

Come to the San Fernando Valley for an IPA then.

 

[luka]

You can't relate to any of the other peoples answers at all?

 

[constant escape]

Admittedly I didn;t thoroughly read most of them, but yeah I can relate.

 

[luka]

You probably should learn to read Stan. Well I dunno. I usually tell you not to learn to read but I'm vacillating now. I guess, stick with not being able to read, better to be an extreme in the end isn't it.

 

[luka]

The most extreme unadulterated manifestation of a contemporary trend

 

[constant escape]

Just seems like thought is geared, at least in the shadow of the enlightenment, toward totalizing even that which is beyond its jurisdiction, and this tension is manifest psychically.

re: reading, having the same trouble with Gravity's Rainbow. Think I just burnt myself out. I was simultaneously Gravity's Rainbow and A Thousand Plateaus, and now both seem somewhat unnecessary and largely uninteresting. Could just be temporary exhaustion though.

 

[luka]

I think it's because you're post literate. My little friend Barty is the same. Also in his twenties. He physically can't read.

 

[luka]

 

[constant escape]

Did you see that spreadsheet I shared, that had the timelines of all these philosophers and esoteric figures etc?

Anyway I think I just churned through revelations at a startling rate, such that they became economically inflated.

 

[constant escape]

This hits home, only I'm watching stuff that exercises this or that technical understanding.

 

[constant escape]

Books, for me, have largely been replaced by hour long lectures on youtube.

 

[luka]

Do you make notes?

 

[luka]

Did you see that spreadsheet I shared, that had the timelines of all these philosophers and esoteric figures etc?

Anyway I think I just churned through revelations at a startling rate, such that they became economically inflated.

No. Do it again please.

 

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Stan's ambition is great, he doesn't just want to say "yeah, thinking is hard" or "thinking about thinking is hard, man" he actually wants to explain thinking.

 

[constant escape]

Do you make notes?

Used to. Not any more. I feel compelled to put pressure on my ability spontaneously procure information, along the lines of intuition. Can't bank on memorizing. Theres too much.

 

[constant escape]

Stan's ambition is great, he doesn't just want to say "yeah, thinking is hard" or "thinking about thinking is hard, man" he actually wants to explain thinking.

Its a compulsion, which is egoistically manifested as a fear of not exemplifying the extremity of cognitive potential across humans.