Conclusion regarding Reason and Intuition.

Conclusion regarding Reason and Intuition

We always lose track of any logic that serves no purpose, invariably confronted with the Sinking House, because the part of our minds that is concerned with Reason (The Directed) has become disconnected from the part that is concerned with Meaning and Purpose (The non-directed).

We can build a house on dry land, and our confidence in this venture becomes our Sanity.

The moment that we try this enterprise over a swamp, a mire without meaning, a foundation without substance, that Sanity is a ghost. Sanity entails that logic be abandoned. Our maps have nothing to do with our territory, and a miscalculation is equal to a calculation*. All thought of a proper calculation disappears when all calculations become miscalculations. The numbers we use to count things begin to refer to nothing at all related to the material world, and, as entities of abstraction devoid of meaning, they all become equal to zero. The maps we draw degenerate into scrawls not as indicative of any substantial, noteworthy ugliness. Their ugliness is merely the ugliness of a confused mind.

Our thoughts become this mire, and any sense of Reason is a passing wavelet. Any attempt to construct Reason finds us holding a handful of quicksand seeping from betwixt our fingertips to dissolve again into a surface that remains, on the whole, flat, only interrupted by a momentary Hope.

We admit to this futility and exit the marsh before we are consumed. We build our house on an unprecedented terrain, prepared to accept what the Divine Will that beats our hearts offers next as Sanity.

 

*This phrase, I am aware, appears absurd. It would make sense if I were to say that “a miscalculation is equal to a proper calculation. Yet this presupposes that a proper calculation could exist. The closest thing in our grammatical common sense to what I am trying to say would be “a calculation equals a miscalculation” or “every calculation is a miscalculation.” Yet should I have written it thus, the aesthetic I am trying to render would be missed.

Dm.A.A.