15 July 2007
I'm doing nothing. At all. And that does stuff to you. Life becomes undefined, a healthy twilight zone. So here is how laziness fits in my personal philosophy.
I believe that what we know is made solely of distinctions. Maybe even perception and experience have essentially the structure of boundaries. These distinctions come before the identification, for example recognizing your computer-screen happens through the boundary of your computer screen, the distinction between screen and the rest. Put simply, differences underly experience. So, studying means in a way that you constantly carve stuff up, for example, body becomes organs, and organs become nitty gritty cell-groups etc. or abstract schemas, learning of such distinctions between realism&idealism, subject&object, id&ego, rational&irrational numbers, right&wrong etc. etc. Becoming intellectual is nothing more than acquiring a set of these abstract distinctions. This is where I distinguish between intellectuality and wisdom, intellectual people get stuck in their group of distinctions, fast and sharp they carve their world up. This is this and that is that, and not otherwise. It makes old, dogmatic and arrogant. So now I take the time to rewire, to blur the stuff I learned and to experience what is in-between this and that. Just to go to Berlin with a primordial soup between my ears.
So far my defense of laziness.
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Anyway, I almost got you last night! ;) I came to Lieke's place right after you had walked her home from Nausikaa's bday bash. We then went to a party in town. And yeah, I'm having fun here in Utrecht. You should come to see me sometime, I'm living in de Uithof.
And my life now is reduced to the daily routine of waiting tables, helping in the kitchen, being behind the bar, etc. at a Thai resturant. I'm still very clumsy, since everything is in Dutch and Thai, none of which I'm close to conversational level, hahaha. :D So I'm pretty busy for now. But I'm sure I'll come see you in Den Haag sometime!