Intractable (Personal) Problem
That's the problem of Indecision. What can one do when even a seemingly insignificant decision leaves you completely exhausted, as if your mind were running a worst case algorithm?
I know, it is a big philosophical problem - the problem of how to bring together thought and action. How to make sure that the process of thinking does not alienate. How to be more spontaneous and and at the same time be more authentic, or if that is even possible...
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Thinking prevents life. work guards against thinking.
thus work is the antidote. but, thinking cannot be stopped, and work is not always possible, so we are left thinking again.
reading exacerbates things. in the end, it exaggerates conflicts. it leads to nothing.
so better work!i wish there was a kind of job which only involved reading.....but then, how boring......
anyway, have been reading your blog. you seem sluggishcompared to your usual standards......
sluggish... yeah, thanks for noticing!
Thought, action, decisions, resposibility and the usual pains of modern life - they are all taking up my energy and time. I have very little left for the blog these days.
/what Kubla said.
Does action truly require thought? I often pondered over this problem during my "I want to quit smoking" phase. Then I realized my analysis was simply a way of resisting. It was another way of avoiding the problem.
It was so much easier to "simply stop".
"Just do it" is not just a clever marketing slogan, if you ask me.
The more the thought, the less the action.
Combining them - well you may spend some time thinking about it - so it will hardly happen :)
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