erectlocution ⊇ boxing jewels

I want to do #1, #2 and #10 every summer, winter, fall and spring. If I can do those three, then my season has been successful.

Unequivocal speech occupies my thoughts now more than it used to. It is a huge challenge to speak unequivocally on a topic which is, itself, an unresolved tangle in the mind. As one grows older, one finds more tangles every day, and even things that appeared neatly sorted out, are actually tangles waiting to happen. What is worse, people tend not appreciate the complexity of tangles and the ability to hold them in the mind. They want us to have firm positions on everything, even though such positions are impossible :( .

Posted by polaris on 20 June 2009 @ 8am

Changed to OL since it makes more sense.

I have rested on my laurels, as it were, regarding #1, #2, and #10. I baked into my self-image some sort of competency or success at them, only to find it illusory. Delusions of accomplishment, like the aging barber who still tries to cash in the acclaim for winning a high school football championship. Only…only I never even did that much.

I can’t imagine that our mental capacity outstrips the capacity of any physical system (no irony intended), so seeing as it’s difficult to find any other physical system that rests on a foundation of neatly divided elemental components, the unequivocal is a result not of having found such bedrock, but of having chosen to stop trying. That’s fine, but without qualifying the reason we no longer fiddle so, we misrepresent the power of our resolution.

Maybe. +)

Posted by Daniel on 22 June 2009 @ 12pm