[Notes only]
In which we try the way we first started, and discover that it now fails to work at all — along with everything else
(1/survival in labyrinth — LH/sunwise move)
Negation of skill (a single person can wreck everything): ‘any idiot can do it — and usually does’ (Murphy); ‘I didn’t know it was important’ (avoidance of responsibility)
Limitations of logic (‘do what I mean’); ‘try hard to relax’
Totally open system: nothing is truly predictable; breakdown of objectivity, collapse into subjectivity; failure of statistics (a set of one)
Drowning in info (infinite regress); ‘fishing for facts’
Chaos-maths proof of infinite regress, infinite sensitivity
Chaos (analytic breakdown/’anything goes’ unfocussable intuitive)
No law » anarchy (fear arising) — fail-safe isn’t
Failure of control: ‘power over’ ends up destroying itself
Desperate awareness (analytic) — able to focus (thinking narrow), but having no idea where to focus (fishing for facts) » frustration; no absolute causes, so treating symptoms (wheelspin)
Paradox: beyond control
This seems like the end: we may as well give up — ‘dark night of the soul’ (BUT » ‘cloud of unknowing’)
BUT: survival « persistence: so keep going!
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