Thursday, February 2, 2012

Personality

I must first confess I am profoundly influenced by Kierkegaard- even when I don't realize that fact. Indeed, his whole manner amuses and inspires me. He was a deeply introspective thinker, and I try to be the same. The issue with introspection is finding the balance between sharing thoughts and keeping them secret. Especially meditations: I cannot fill this entire blog with meditations on loneliness. I would be thought desperate or needy. I might be, but I want my thoughts to be timely. Loneliness is not timely, inaction is. But however much one idea needs repeating, the world does not like repetition- I myself do not like repitition (and there again interferes the "I")- and it is best only to contradict the world when it is necessary.
When is it necessary to contradict the world? Practically all of the time. The world is some sort of antithesis to the spiritual, and as such must be corrected at every turn. But repetition is a stylistic flair, not a necessary need. Repitition is amoral, just as sleeping or money. The morality is in the user and use, not the thing itself.
But style is such a part of the world, that it must be contradicted not as a moral, but as an industrial matter. It is least efficient to write thoughtlessly. What people want is stories. What must be written are essays,- I am certain the essay is a dead art, since what is taught in schools is the rigidly inefficient five paragraph "essay"- essays concerning the individual. Men must be stung in the heels that they might run. Perhaps the stinging-essay is what these men need, to enter and conquer the race.

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