I think our navigational sequence of perception/judgement and the narrative basis of civilization are the basis for the linear and consequently goal oriented vision. Those stories with the most compelling punch line were the most repeated. Especially if they served some concept of authority. So society adapted to the tools creating it.

That even theoretical physics models time as a dimension, by treating it as measures of duration, between events, going from past to future, rather than change, turning future to past, shows just how indoctrinated our world has become to this model. The map is more real than the territory.

Even Eastern cultures have been compelled to adopt Western, goal oriented paradigms, from communism, to capitalism, because they offer short term gains that shut out longer term cycles.

Which goes to show just how difficult it is to develop a paradigm that understands both sides of the coin are equally essential and not just us versus them.

There is no stable nirvana. Without the ups and downs, it’s a flatline.

We want our cake and eat it too.

It would be nice to figure out a way to develop a broader conversation around the general principle, since such efforts tend to become more about our own feedback generated egos and ids.

For example, I used to frequent Massimo Pigliucci’s various blogs and he told me I had an agenda, while I told him that he was trying to make stoicism into the certainty of the Catholicism he was raised in. Both of which were true, but I didn’t feel my sense of mission was negative, nor was his search for foundation. So we just ended up by talking past one another.

Not that I have anything against foundations, but recognize it as part of the dynamic between energy and form. Form without energy to manifest and propel it, tends to congeal into absolutism.

Not to take up your time, but it’s Sunday and I’m avoiding chores.