If we really were to empty out the contents of our minds into the public space, it would probably be very confusing and bewildering, like gazing over history without an organizational framework, or observing the cosmos with the naked eye - an analogy that breaks down because even the naked eye, with its neural processing, actively filters and constructs.
You don't just have a will, but wills, all of which collapse down into finer wills, which aggregate and produce movements.
You can observe this within yourself, and then it has been observed in neuroscience. The behavior of the neurons in the brain is interesting enough: they associate. They form connections and break connections. They form tribes, interest groups, which appeal to the global will.
And this understanding still is simply a bootstrapping off of many other concepts that we have constructed, such as democracy, tribe, connect, associate, etc.
What we choose to focus on within ourselves, and what we pay attention to in the world then, really does contribute to the construction of what we are. And in turn, what we choose to encapsulate within that realm of perception and share with others through speech and writing, contributes to the construction of what we are as a collective.
And as I've written in numerous variations before, to focus on something
is to make it more so, and bring it in relation to you.
These are all choices, which originate in large part from our reactions to reality as it acts on us. But what is choice? Power gives you at the least an illusion of decision-making ability, and powerlessness forces you to be reactive to power.
And anyway, the basic premise is threatening to blow up my project here and now. A privilege! A privilege to sit here in confusion and bewilderment, as necessity tends to remove doubt. Or does it? Ah too much thinking; sometimes it is better to give it up.
