The Philosophy of "Lost" getting "Less Losable"
Or... "Note to self: Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear"
It’s an even scarier thought, to have a lens and not know it, because your lens may be doing something to you.
Note the rear view mirror on the passenger side of your car. It likely says, “objects in mirror may be closer than they appear”. What label might you need to attach to the only lens your mind has ever been attached to – the one through which you view the world? “Objects in this view may be more ‘x’ than they appear”. Defining your ‘x’ may be one of the most critical things you’ll ever do.
There is no such thing as "lensless-ness" - there is no way to get out from behind a lens. Another scary thought. What may be our only hope to calculate for the distortion of something we can’t see outside of (since we have no way of comparing it with anything else) may be as simple as what's hidden in the word, "LISTEN".
Now we’re back to “lost” and “triangulation”. If we listen enough to the observations of other people, and take the intersection of their thoughts and our own, and we pay attention to patterns of discrepancies, then a sense of our own tendencies can emerge. Some of those tendencies will be the “flaws” in our own lens. Listen for the differences that consistently emerge. Is the whole world wrong, or are you? Is it something in your lens?
It’s an even scarier thought, to have a lens and not know it, because your lens may be doing something to you.
Note the rear view mirror on the passenger side of your car. It likely says, “objects in mirror may be closer than they appear”. What label might you need to attach to the only lens your mind has ever been attached to – the one through which you view the world? “Objects in this view may be more ‘x’ than they appear”. Defining your ‘x’ may be one of the most critical things you’ll ever do.
There is no such thing as "lensless-ness" - there is no way to get out from behind a lens. Another scary thought. What may be our only hope to calculate for the distortion of something we can’t see outside of (since we have no way of comparing it with anything else) may be as simple as what's hidden in the word, "LISTEN".
Now we’re back to “lost” and “triangulation”. If we listen enough to the observations of other people, and take the intersection of their thoughts and our own, and we pay attention to patterns of discrepancies, then a sense of our own tendencies can emerge. Some of those tendencies will be the “flaws” in our own lens. Listen for the differences that consistently emerge. Is the whole world wrong, or are you? Is it something in your lens?
posted by CSW at
8:17 AM
3 Comments:
This brings to mind the movie "A Beautiful Mind". Imagine suffering from schizophrenia. Talk about a flaw in the lens. Yet through time even a schizophrenic can recognize those flaws and being to compensate for them as Nash did.
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Josh, at 9:42 PM
Think of how many don't. It's one of our most difficult life-tests, I think. To muster the courage, and even more than that, the necessary diligence to be thorough, honest and objective. The temptation to fudge the results in our own favor is mind boggling because the process is almost entirely internal (not the dialogue - but our processing it is). It's internally motivated, internally applied and internally analyzed.
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CSW, at 4:14 PM
Yeah it can be incredibly enticing to become lazy and complacement about how you place pieces of belief into your life. It requires a lot of effort and energy to constantly be on the ball. I have found that one of the best ways to help combat internal errors is to try to preserve an open dialogue with the people around you. For example, there have been many times that our conversations have challenged me to rethink my thinking.
There is the obvious benefit of external correction and criticism that you can get from others, but there is more to it than that. By forming a coherent enough thought about your beliefs that you can communicate it to another person you are also forcing yourself to be active about your thinking and pull away some the veil of your own consciousness that sometimes hides what you really believe from you.
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Josh, at 11:33 PM
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