Explorations: Lean into the Religiosity of Ideas
Explorations is a sub-series of ideas yet to be fully formed. A conversation with myself from which longer form essays may bloom.
Lean into the religiosity of good ideas. But instead of closing your mind, locking to the one attractor within that idea, ask yourself continually if it is serving its purpose well. If it is not serving its purpose well, don’t abandon it. Instead, allow it to disintegrate, and reintegrate it. The process of self-organizing criticality, collapsing in on itself in order to create a stronger base for that idea.
Share the idea, but don’t proselytize the idea in and of itself, proselytize the merits of the disintegration and reintegration of the idea. Come to know the idea again. Through process. Participate in the propositional, drawing it out of the conceptual and into the emergent reality of those words, those ideas. What are the causal effects of the ideas you espouse? Are they transcendental? Inclusionary? Exclusionary? Are they in service of a generational project? Will they build the ground floor of the cathedral? Are they building on top of an existing cathedral? Where will the idea take you, if you truly embrace that it is not rigid, that it is structured, but fluid? Build it, let it sit within the culture you create, and surround yourself with. Let it move through the distributed nature of our consciousness, our shared cognition, our sacrament. Let it flow into others as they can accept it, let it be theirs, not yours. Don’t lose sight of the projects that benefit from the idea. Why did you come to the idea?
A concept? What good is that if one does not allow it to have causal properties that aid in the building of culture? We’re building fucking niches, man, ecological fucking niches, man! Breathe that shit everyday, you don’t have a choice really. Wake up early and breathe it. Build it. Put all energy towards it. What are you creating? Why are you creating? Not something to leave behind as some legacy of your egoic self, but to leave behind as a layer, on top of many nameless layers. A culture.