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September 11, 2006
Inertia
While working at the pushcart, I have come to understand much more clearly the inertial force of everyday life. To what degree this is a product of the specific work I don't know, but probably more importantly it is the first job I have ever had that I have cared about enough to work at for more that a year.
So I have come to understand some of the forces that keep people in a straight path. Why it is that revolutions don't happen every day, and never without mighty provocation. It is only when there is absolutely no way to go forward with things staying as they are that people taken as a mass will endure the risk involved in change.
To learn this has been sobering, but how much better than to never understand why no accumulated force of ideas can deflect the course of history?
pinky adds:
yes great post
wisdom hard won
but true sapiens not scientia
its truth is in your body
the inertial reality of minds
is tied up with the repition of necessary tasks
sticking to and refining prior patterns
becomes a near necessity
look over a whole society trying to reproduce itself
and you have this same inertia in multiplex
we end up as much tied down as tied together
as u wrote before only boredom and its other cousins in the restless mind
family
can brake this up for the individual or clique
and only then
they're an anomoly
like an ice braker cutting a one time path thru a frozen ocean
a path as quickly closed in behind as it was opened
no more can be expected
short of those times of collapsing state structures
whichs
are like that same ice sheet braking up all over all at once
under the beating heat
of rare season of run away thaw
but
these episodic social spring times
come only every once and a while
and
after countless winters apon winters
Posted by Sam at September 11, 2006 05:04 PM