It's impossible to be in Rational / Purposeful Mode and yet at the same time be 'in reality'. That just can't be done. When we think about things then we're not in the real world, and when we deliberately act...
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There is a state of mind in which everything becomes all about ‘gaining rather than losing’. This is - needless to say - a state of mind that we’re all very familiar with. It's perfectly legitimate to be concerned with...
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We can live life in one of two ways – either on the basis of thought, or directly, spontaneously, without any conceptual mediation whatsoever, without any precedence (or preference) at all. In the first case we never depart from our...
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‘Choices’ and ‘doing’ are the same thing - making choices is ‘a doing’ - it is, in other words, the unfolding of a plan, the acting out or copying of a mental picture. This may not sound like a particularly controversial...
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Within the prolific but monotone hyperreality that we have inadvertently and unknowingly created for ourselves, all that exists are ‘strategic manoeuvres. It is simply not possible to engage in any activity that is not a strategic manoeuvre - which is...
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When we interact with the world it is almost always via our internal map, almost always via our ‘neat and tidy logical understanding of the way things are’. Every time we interact with the world in a purposeful way (which...
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The very big problem with purposeful behaviour is that just as long as we are engaging in it, we will never encounter unstructured space. Goal-orientated behaviour will only ever take us to our goal, obviously enough! We don't want it...
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