Thinking in Text
This one is not about me. Atleast not initially. But like every other post it will veer towards the dimly lit expanse of arachnid haven I carry above my clavicle.
The paradox is that it is no longer the beginning it was intended to be, the intrigue is lost, that shadow in the background is too familiar. But I shall continue like always, I have great veneration for the fundamentals of mechanics (think physics) - the one in effect now is called Inertia.
I knew this guy, relatively speaking - a close friend of mine. He always surprised me with the sheer consistency of his certain, facile hand. I was the only one who was surprised though. "Everything (used in a particularly general way to include the universe of inanimate objects of interest to all animate subjects including themselves)" else was never surprised, they just knew. But what surprised me further was that 'he' also knew!
Prolonged exposure to such surprises is not healthy (anyone from WHO?) because then you attempt to unsuccessfully rationalize and eventually philosophize (comes naturally after you have been unsuccessful). As a result you loose respect for surprises. I concluded from my initial intellections that the non uniform experience of 'surprise' had its genesis in what I started calling 'social adjustment'. By implication that friend of mine was socially well adjusted and I was not. Thats why he is so 'now' and I am so 'nowhere' ...explains everything...well almost.
A new set of observations both temporally as well as spatially displaced, though the subject and the control(that's me) were still the same, revived my experiment. The observations revealed an interesting facet - a aggravated stage of 'social ill adjustment' which I call 'anthropological ill adjustment'. Indeed social adjustment being an evolutionary process rather than a state can be actively replicated across geographies, cultures or generations. Be it the contemporary or the classic, the poetic or the prosaic, the ideals or the mores, politics or economics, individualism or collectivism, a socially well adjusted individual draws his understanding and expectations from cliches and enriches them just a trifle, to be simultaneously exoteric and aspirational.
The 'anthropologically ill adjusted' is the other extreme characterized by conscious, willful dissonance which precludes even accidental alignment with micro niches of all possible combinations of anthropological variables.
The paradox is that it is no longer the beginning it was intended to be, the intrigue is lost, that shadow in the background is too familiar. But I shall continue like always, I have great veneration for the fundamentals of mechanics (think physics) - the one in effect now is called Inertia.
I knew this guy, relatively speaking - a close friend of mine. He always surprised me with the sheer consistency of his certain, facile hand. I was the only one who was surprised though. "Everything (used in a particularly general way to include the universe of inanimate objects of interest to all animate subjects including themselves)" else was never surprised, they just knew. But what surprised me further was that 'he' also knew!
Prolonged exposure to such surprises is not healthy (anyone from WHO?) because then you attempt to unsuccessfully rationalize and eventually philosophize (comes naturally after you have been unsuccessful). As a result you loose respect for surprises. I concluded from my initial intellections that the non uniform experience of 'surprise' had its genesis in what I started calling 'social adjustment'. By implication that friend of mine was socially well adjusted and I was not. Thats why he is so 'now' and I am so 'nowhere' ...explains everything...well almost.
A new set of observations both temporally as well as spatially displaced, though the subject and the control(that's me) were still the same, revived my experiment. The observations revealed an interesting facet - a aggravated stage of 'social ill adjustment' which I call 'anthropological ill adjustment'. Indeed social adjustment being an evolutionary process rather than a state can be actively replicated across geographies, cultures or generations. Be it the contemporary or the classic, the poetic or the prosaic, the ideals or the mores, politics or economics, individualism or collectivism, a socially well adjusted individual draws his understanding and expectations from cliches and enriches them just a trifle, to be simultaneously exoteric and aspirational.
The 'anthropologically ill adjusted' is the other extreme characterized by conscious, willful dissonance which precludes even accidental alignment with micro niches of all possible combinations of anthropological variables.
posted by Prashant at 11:40 PM
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