Ambiguity
Territories
There seems to be a clear territory of cultural rules - patterns and cycles of thought and behaviour we tend to clearly live in. They appear to live beyond another territory, an ambiguous one, that most people notice in short intervals. The latter doesn’t seem to need an explanation; there doesn’t appear to be one.
Competition
It’s commonly observed that most kids grow with an instinctual tendency to compare and compete in the simplest activities. Driven by, arguably, outdated primal instincts. Some subtly diminish this tendency as they become more conscious of true behavioural ambiguity. Some retain it. Others might loose it. Is it a loss of drive? Is it how hidden artists are formed? To see natural selection outside the focused lens of the subject being examined can certainly dissipate the competitive instinct and replace it with a different drive, an instinct, we often feel, forget, can’t explain.
Voluntary patterns
It’s perhaps mere competence, skill, in various mediums that amalgamates an individual - creating behavioural patterns, shaping ‘clear cultural territories’. The realization and the reminder of true ambiguity at times, is either a means to irrationality or to be genuinely free of voluntary cultural patterns. I’m not sure yet.
Primary references:
A Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Factfullness - Hans Rosling
Plato’s Theory of forms
The Egg - Andy Weir
The creative Act - Rick Rubin - I like how he and many others i suppose talk about the ‘wisdom of the beyond’ as an unknwon realm for ‘us’ to extract from through various mediums, ‘we dont know why, or how, but it seems to be working’ he said along these words. He seems however to put an emphasis on ‘universal wisdom’ at times - the language is more certain than it perhaps should be? It’s interesting how writers are instinctively drawn to give an ‘answer’. Or a ‘solid hypothesis’ perhaps? not to say that we should solely be speaking with questions and ‘maybe(s)’ as i often do - but surely, as a species, we could be more humble in our assumption.
