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The Certainty of Tendencies


We might tend to react to surface-level events, mainly to that what we observe: a sensation, a behavior, a used tool, a tool (i.e. a technology) enforcing a usage through a structured protocol, a reaction following a poke, a way of doing something as it has “always” been done; or an impulsive disruption thereof.

We might tend to not distinguish one attribute from another, beyond a habitual, rudimentary granularity of discriminations: “that’s white; that’s black; eh is this white or black, let’s call it gray, no let’s ignore it”.

We might tend to frivolously organize ideas in superficial coherence yet, might simultaneously tend to fail to acknowledge the holes in that professed integrity of their organization: such as this text, or that company’s operation.

We might tend to reference these combined ideas, over and again, almost feverishly wanting to increase their legitimacies.

Or we might tend to be unable to perceive, let alone embrace: ambiguities, uncertainties, or blatant contradictions within these coagulated ideas.

While we might tend to enforce #mcoherence and clear-cut unity, we simultaneously tend to deny ourselves seeing evolving relations between ideas that do not fit our comfort, found in the prefabricated organization of such ideas, as they were presented to us over our formalizing and conforming years. As such we seem too tied up to innovate. Is that a lack of sub-surface learning? Or, is that a lack of, not only metaphorical, mental space or breathing space, to allow one to reflect, reconsider and adapt?

This then allows us to possibly tend to retire from looking at the previously combined ideas via different perspectives: why they were combined, how they are kept together or how they could be perceived by using parameters as lenses (i.e. using conflicting ideas or seemingly unrelated ideas), how they maintain failures and how they do, or do not, answer wants-yet-not-needs, why and how these interwoven ideas could, or need, to be innovated upon.

We might tend to superficially innovate some ideas if the neighbors, on most sides around our ideas’ habitat, seem to have done so.

…and then we tend to act, almost compulsively, upon these concoctions of ideas.

These might be tendencies, not certainties: that too we tend to overlook.

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