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“Nostalgia is continually aroused and teased; you miss clips the moment they’re gone, and cling to the aural afterglow of what has passed even as you focus on what is coming, what keeps coming.”
— Zadie Smith, “Killing Orson Welles at Midnight”
“When I spoke it sounded wrong: not the grammar and the arrangement of words but something deeper, as if I was making things up and my stumbling efforts were evident to everyone.”
— Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart
When I'm feeling anxious about my ability to meet my immediate needs, it can feel impossible to do anything creative. I might think that it's only when my needs have been fully met that I'll be comfortable enough to be creative again. But the time for creative action is always now. It's by thinking and acting creatively that I can best address my needs and solve the problems I'm facing.
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“Human beings are social animals in a deep way. It is not just that we go in for friendship or prefer to live in swarms or packs. The space of linguistic consciousness — the space in which meanings and reasons exist — is a space that we occupy together.”
— Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
“The world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also… by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world.”
— Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob
There are countless things I should do. I should exercise at least three times per week. I should say “thank you” when someone helps me. I should put the “e” before the “i” when I'm spelling the word “weight”. I should drive slowly near the elementary school. I should tell my friend I'm going to be late. I should get at least seven hours of sleep each night.
Some of these shoulds feel more important than others, but the source of their force is always me. It's always my choice as to whether or not a particular should will be enforced. This is true even when there are others who will impose a penalty on me if I don't follow the rule or norm, for my desire to avoid the penalty is yet another should, namely “I should not do anything that will get me punished.”
The force of should arises from my own reflective judgment. I've judged that it's in my best interest to do something, so I tell myself that I ought to do it. These judgments arise through the values I've acquired from my own experiences. With different experiences, I might judge differently. This means that some of the things I judge I should do, you might judge you shouldn't do, or vice versa.
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“In philosophy no inferences are drawn. “But it must be like this!” is not a philosophical proposition. Philosophy only states what everyone concedes to it.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.”
— Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
I am surrounded by a thick fog. In every direction I look, the fog is impenetrable. I can see only what's right in front of me, and even that is difficult to discern. When I recognize something and feel confident I know what it is and must be, it's quickly swallowed by the fog again, and I'm left wondering where it went or if it even existed in the first place.
Everything I know and everything I have is continually slipping through my fingers and vanishing into the fog. It is in this condition that I know I must exist and live.
Once I had the feeling that the fog was clearing somewhere ahead, so I went there, I built a home, I made myself comfortable, and I began to devise plans for the future. Time passed in relative peace, but one day the fog started to roll in again. Even what I thought was clear and obvious was again plunged into doubt and uncertainty.
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“It is the perverse business of mirrors never to inform women of their beauty in the present moment, preferring instead to operate on a system of cruel delay.”
— Zadie Smith, The Fraud
We want everyone to conform to the norms of society because we are deeply concerned for our safety and the safety of our loved ones. A lack of conformity suggests the possibility of social disruption or at least change, and we are suspicious of this because we cannot know what such an uncertain process might mean for us. We push for conformity and we enforce it by ensuring those who do not conform are reprimanded, ostracized, or otherwise punished.
Fear of harms that could arise from a changing world is an automatic reaction to the possibility of danger. It would be foolish to expect this fear not to arise. But when we project our fear into the future, it can transform into an intention to avoid and oppose any action that might encourage change. Attachment to this intention produces anxiety — the perpetual worry that change will corrupt the order that is keeping us safe.
This worry only grows in strength when we are regularly told that conformity is the only way to avoid the changes we most dread. Sometimes it becomes so strong that we develop the belief that even the smallest deviation from our norms will lead to total ruin. Dominated by this intense anxiety, we fall back on hierarchies, we obey the commands of authority figures, and we enforce our rules on others with brutal precision.
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