Some reflections following an experimental session exploring the idea of Fundamental Freedom with Malcolm Ocean.
Core idea: When we consider something to be “not allowed/not an option”, we insulate it from our full, honest, participatory consideration.
“I am God, and I have no need to think. Up to now I’ve never thought, and I’ve never felt the need, not in the slightest. The reason human beings are in such a bad way is because they think; thought is by definition sketchy and imperfect—and misleading. To any thought one can oppose another, obverse thought, and to that yet another, and so forth and so on; and this inane cerebral yakety-yak is about as far from divine as you can get.”
“A neat desk is a sign of a sick mind.”
“How does the brain create consciousness?”
What Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel has to say about the predicaments of modern democracy.