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Hole-y Tao bells!

This comment to one of my posts seemed particularly powerful:

"This is the way"

This is the way. "Life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience".

Now if I could just become obsessed with that modus operandi....

I also appreciate someone (sorry, lost track of who..) pointing me in the direction of the "Kennedy" search engine.

A Bubble comment from Morgan

It's a lot more lively around here when you're active :)

Maybe it's just lack of participants. But I've occasionally wondered if there's a bit of a fear of "Gemini becoming too much like The Web" or "Bubble becoming too much like a corporate social network" subconsciously driving activity down, as though suspecting activity itself might have played a significant role in the arguable downfall of those: "Maybe it'll stay more pristine if I don't add to - or otherwise sully - it" kind of thing.

I've been quiet myself for a while, apart from the occasional interaction here or on station. Just haven't found the time to post, I guess I'll get back into it at some point although I doubt I'll aim for daily again. Is that bad? Eh. I like that I have somewhere to post if I should feel like it, and I still read more or less every day. Seems pretty good in all.

I can't help but wonder whether language has been more a curse than a blessing to this species. So much of what I've investigated suggests we miss out on a much fuller reality by clinging to word-based representation(s) of what an alleged such reality might be. And it's sadly funny that the need to use the word 'alleged' in that previous sentence is due to representational alleging itself! And, of course, all attempts to back away from that situation via words - i.e. conceptually - only winds the grip of said self-referential situation all the more tightly.... <coughs>

Said another way, we dig a hole with words, then use more words to try to get out of the hole.

          i'm digging a hole
        where the words dug in
           and got my mind
             a' wandering
            into more hole