When Reweaving the Infrastructure of the Mind
The world is experiencing a quiet collapse before we even notice it.
Without hearing anyone's footsteps,
the 'supporting layer' deep within the mind is gradually thinning.
Information increases, yet the mesh of understanding unravels.
Choices expand, yet their outlines become blurred.
Only a 'freedom' that connects to nothing blows through like the wind.
From the depths of such an era, a quiet desire arises.
—a desire to rebuild the 'infrastructure of the mind'.
Infrastructure is, by nature, invisible.
Yet, without it, one cannot connect with the world.
A foothold to keep from falling between the self and the world.
A quiet floor for thinking deeply.
A rhythm of breathing to encounter others.
All of these are thinning now.
As they thin, the individual loses the 'power to remain at the center',
and the sensation of touching the world dissipates.
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So, how do we reorganize it?
The answer is not in the usual linear theories.
The motive power of creation is always born from the oscillation between two phases.
Dissipation and convergence.
Rupture and construction.
Detachment and concentration.
Or, one might call it this:
The oscillation between schizo and parano.
By scattering, we pick up the strange sounds of the world,
and by gathering, we give them form.
When these two movements stop,
the mind dries up like flat sand.
But if the oscillation becomes excessively fast,
it becomes mere instability,
and if it becomes too slow, it leans toward rigidity.
What is needed is
to 'design the oscillation itself as a structure'.
The power to diverge and the power to gather.
A flow path of the mind where both alternate while remaining alive,
constantly updating each other.
I believe that is the outline of the
'new infrastructure of the mind' that will be needed from now on.
As if laying down invisible footholds once more
between the world and oneself.
While scattering, while gathering,
we regain the breath of the mind.
I would like to write the blueprint for that
little by little from here on.