Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Meaning as Crime

There is a sense where all meaning is a crime.
Firstly there is an act of murder an impersonation. The rich diverse world of nature, the shifting lights and myriad smells is collapsed into a handful of formulars or an asserted idea. Reality is then sniffed out or replaces with words and their drawn models.
A move that of course involved a confidence hussle - for it really only can work if this secondary world, the one of books and computer screens manages somehow to pretend to be the real world. there is then some trick of confidence here. A a trick that works in both direction. truth is truth because we place our confidence in ti- and pull reality around it and what it says. It is quite literaly then a trick of confidence. At the same time though the entire process only really works if there is something else happening, some other movement afoot. we do not directly learnt or manipulate the world (whatever that might be), so much as have little loops of thought that allow us to predict behaviours, and to be open to exceptions within the world and where they might lead. Anything then stop being self evident. It all becomes a journey somewhere else- a path to...
a predictive hussel we place on the world as we nudge it somewhere rather than.....
Or perhaps better a trick that we play when our confidence merges with our reality - in such a way that we become able to work out what will happen when we do... Or at least believe that we can, and therefore accept the mathematical model that allows for this move.
But meaning is also surely an act of robbery. \We pilfer what we feel to be reality and use it then in our own schemes. What we call nature is then caught in a crystal of robbery and resistance. as humans we feel we have certain rights to resist nature or ignore its rights. we can go and do what we want. and yet we look fearfully over our back all the time, in the best burglar tradition, wondering what nature might do in turn how it might and should retaliate. We govern then in the interest of man's laws, and define nature and its laws merely as the alien to be robbed any which way: Only then fearing the result...
Likewise there is surely a sense that all meaning is tied to forgery. What else to we do but forge a world in our thoughts a world that is the facsimile to the truth - a world that forges a new reality.We then forge and improve or change so that the world is in our befief- seen in our own eyes. The world as it means is always our world, our being-

Meaning is then defined in an illicit move- the world is given in our minds: from the fact that we possess perceptions that cannot by their own light be understood as our ideas purely, our delusion, or madness, we move very quickly to the assumption that we then have the ability to think the entire world as if it were our on, and ac according. Possession becomes ownership in the flick of the eye. the only game then becomes how we then share (or not) what we feel we own. do we share t only with other humans, with the gods or god, or with the world or our perceptions of it itself. how the do we understand our crime? and how and where o we allow other forces, the forces of law and order to retaliate - can they retaliate in our minds? can they reveal then the inadequacy, the illicit nature of our meaning? Or have we sealed our world away from any possibility of external laws? and what then follows?

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