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omit needless words

humor

the tense and naked demilitarized zone between humor and seriousness blurs. each state is a form of clothing, armor to protect against the wicked arbitration of an absurd persistence. to stand between them is to stand alone. find it there to see that "this" is precisely what it seems: a joke at which none laughs.

terse

this is the honest belief in a lie

a lot of words

this blog is accruing words at an increasing rate, some of which are easy and some of which are difficult. additional observation: the difficulty of the thoughts alters with the difficulty of the words. tentative conclusion: the difficulty of articulated language is directly related to the difficulty of the ideas expressed. question: is the relationship a so-called "two-way street" or is there a causal direction? do complex ideas require complex language, or does complex language complicate ideas? or are ideas and language so inextricably intwined (i.e., ideas cannot be formulated without language, and the use of language necessarily involves the formulation of an idea) that their relative "difficulties" are also intwined? we might recall wittgenstein's proposals in the tractatus and the investigations, respectively: that common language disguises ideas and philosophical language unclothes them, and that philosophical language confuses ideas while common language clarifies them. the contradictory nature of wittgenstein's own conclusions may lead us to a new one: contradiction is the very basis of rational discourse, that to be conscious of an idea is to be conscious of its contradiction, and that in the contradiction between contradiction and itself, we might discover an important relationship between our thoughts and their linguistic expression... or we might not.

external self-contained context

at this point or perhaps at an imminent one -- the exactness of the moment defies its nature -- this blog will reach the tipping point at which it will either tend toward infinity or toward zero. somewhere, i'm sure, there is a blog full of statistics showing that blogs are exemplary of the sort of projects started but never finished. this blog has at least finished already, with its singular initial post. everything unfinished is complete in its own right. a shift in temporal context of 5 or 5,000 years transforms a shard of pottery into evidence of a civilization or disregarded manuscripts into a body of literature and study. context exists only as change. no being incapable of perfectly recreating its own past mental states has any hope of assuming the same context on its work at all times. humans are hopeless at this. these shifts in context accrue and aggregate, gaining and losing relevance with no correslation to the hard and fast variables of linear time and space.

the first two posts have been boring and overly pretentious, but this sincere review might reopen the door to continuity