Every couple of months or so I like to reformulate the spirit of the basic project I have going here. It is mostly for me and for representing my efforts to myself to keep on track, but it also certainly fits in with the material here and informs its meaning and its direction.
There is an attempt at truthfulness here, at least as much as is possible with the sort of perspective I have to articulate. When you start to pull back far enough, and you attempt to see as much of the picture as possible, all of the particulars and details do get a bit blurry.
But if you spend enough time out there, and are constantly refining a working understanding of the greater movements, then you can work your way again to the particulars and hopefully get a lot of it right, if the model you've formulated is any good. And a lot of the motivation for doing it this particular way, and being interested in this sort of thing, is quite spiritual and personal.
I try to constantly remind myself that I'm full of shit. All of the concerns here, and the methods of expressing those concerns reflect my own values and the trajectory of my own life. How you live on the ground goes quite a long way towards shaping what sorts of forms you are throwing up into the air.
What do you experience? What do you have time for? What interests you and what do you study? What matters and energies are passing through your body and your mind? These are things you have to reconcile with the sorts of contemplations and articulations and models you're putting together to communicate these things.
And of course it can't be done alone. I have a whole constellation of fellow travelers whose own articulations and journeys are consonant with my own, and so those articulations are constantly influencing my own, and are constantly compared with and triangulated upon.
What you end up building has to communicate with the surrounding reality in some way. The house must rest on its foundation, and accept the passing waters and winds and incorporate them into its internal life. And the built up thought is not only engaged with by others, but must guide and inform as reality happens, and that process too is the reality.
So the totality of this process is the reality. Thought, as it is formulated by the combinations of past thought and techniques, history, personal experience and being, edification with the agreements of others' thoughts, and so on, becomes ever more real and stable as it agrees with the world and encourages one to live well in that world.
What's happening? What's happening to others as well? What are we all interested in and where are we going? Do the thoughts anticipate this and represent this? Do the others agree? Then the thoughts can stay for now. And soon enough, things will change again, and the thoughts will change, and the unities will separate and disintegrate until they have to become something else entirely.
