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Mar. 28th, 2012 08:15 pmRight now! Right now is right now, I'm wasting time before I take some test so I can try and embarrass myself on Jeopardy! There's a settling happening right now - a reordering of everything, life.
But anyhow- I have a time that I spend, an amount of time like coins in my pockets that is for painting. I have painting time to make spend. And I can't.
Not exactly blocked- that's like, not for me. I get... something else. I get spread out and have other stuff to do - but I'm stumped. XXI - the World. The World is pretty hard to paint my friends.
Early I was on my more socio-political bent and I was thinking: Rats in a Maze. 21 - System. I still like System, but I was thinking. I am thinking. The World. Dammit the World.
The sequence is important in my painting up the Trumps - that's what I want to stick to- the order, sequential. I could knock out all the Aces in a day - I'm looking forward to it actually, when I'll be able to. But for the moment I'm on the World and having some trouble.
I thought for a moment about Sagan and how I don't care about/never liked that guy. That pale-blue-dot thing that people get worked up about just seems stupid to me. Oh This tiny insignificant place that houses everything of significance - we'll ponder its lack of meaning now. It's just... It's sophomoric is what it is. I dislike and distrust this idea that vastness and nothing has an essential value somehow in excess of the works of man. I distrust ideas that denigrate the works of people in opposition to the majesty of nature/space/the cosmos. We have thinking - we invented that- we can even think about nonsense, have opinions about nonsense. We can make our spaceship take a picture of the earth so it looks like a pixel and then decide it means a thing.
Because the small must lack significance. It must! Our megafaunal bias. We're all so big, the biggest! Compare favorably to the biggest animals, we forget that we're insignificant - in terms of collective mass compared to the vast majority of creatures, most of them too small to notice. A pixel across. Sizes, distances - they're not important, that we can describe them - that's important.
So Thinking - that's the real stuff you people. System = Thinking, and what's the picture of thinking? I'm of the school that will say and believe that you can't have believing without the word for it. Language allows abstractions, there aren't many/any without it.
so the big symbol - linguistically - of ideas, abstractions - is the big, strong basic abstraction - the ZERO 0. But I just. I don't want to paint a picture of the 0. Not for this. I need to paint a picture of language. That's my problem.
But now, I guess I need to win on Jeopardy! I'll try that first.
But anyhow- I have a time that I spend, an amount of time like coins in my pockets that is for painting. I have painting time to make spend. And I can't.
Not exactly blocked- that's like, not for me. I get... something else. I get spread out and have other stuff to do - but I'm stumped. XXI - the World. The World is pretty hard to paint my friends.
Early I was on my more socio-political bent and I was thinking: Rats in a Maze. 21 - System. I still like System, but I was thinking. I am thinking. The World. Dammit the World.
The sequence is important in my painting up the Trumps - that's what I want to stick to- the order, sequential. I could knock out all the Aces in a day - I'm looking forward to it actually, when I'll be able to. But for the moment I'm on the World and having some trouble.
I thought for a moment about Sagan and how I don't care about/never liked that guy. That pale-blue-dot thing that people get worked up about just seems stupid to me. Oh This tiny insignificant place that houses everything of significance - we'll ponder its lack of meaning now. It's just... It's sophomoric is what it is. I dislike and distrust this idea that vastness and nothing has an essential value somehow in excess of the works of man. I distrust ideas that denigrate the works of people in opposition to the majesty of nature/space/the cosmos. We have thinking - we invented that- we can even think about nonsense, have opinions about nonsense. We can make our spaceship take a picture of the earth so it looks like a pixel and then decide it means a thing.
Because the small must lack significance. It must! Our megafaunal bias. We're all so big, the biggest! Compare favorably to the biggest animals, we forget that we're insignificant - in terms of collective mass compared to the vast majority of creatures, most of them too small to notice. A pixel across. Sizes, distances - they're not important, that we can describe them - that's important.
So Thinking - that's the real stuff you people. System = Thinking, and what's the picture of thinking? I'm of the school that will say and believe that you can't have believing without the word for it. Language allows abstractions, there aren't many/any without it.
so the big symbol - linguistically - of ideas, abstractions - is the big, strong basic abstraction - the ZERO 0. But I just. I don't want to paint a picture of the 0. Not for this. I need to paint a picture of language. That's my problem.
But now, I guess I need to win on Jeopardy! I'll try that first.
