Potentiality in between A and B
While the cherry blossoms are in full bloom and anticyclonic tendencies slightly jazz up the national hormone level, beneath the trees are seated one-day-in-the-week nuclear families, consuming.
Everything we do in life is a form of consumption I guess. And in a sense, consumption is a form of recycling. Like burning petrol can make your car drive, watching a porn movie can make your hands move. Life, this world, is all about triggering, causing, connecting, relaying, executing, consecuting, expressing and consuming. (I realize this statement doesn't surpass the level of cheap hollywood philosophy, most likely to be uttered by some advertising agent through his nokia cell phone in a porsche convertible, but allow me to continue this monologue, most likely only to be read by a maximum of ten people.)
Cause-and-consequence is the basic formula for any fact and/or existence. I think this and therefore I think that. We have sex and therefore you are pregnant. Or at least, there is a possibility or -even better- potential for it.
It is because we have sex, you can get pregnant.
That is why we cannot speak of because A is the cause, therefore B is the consequence, with A being the cause and B being the consequence.
It is not because we have sex that you are pregnant. No, you are pregnant because we have sex.
Because B is the consequence, therefore A is the cause.
I know, I know, this sounds like extreme gibberish and linguistically I suppose there isn't any problem whatsoever. But what I would like to point out here is the following: we fear and/or dream of future consequences, we think of past causes. We have sex and fear aids (or dream of a baby), but we think of who might have infected us. We don't fear or dream of what has already been, and we don't really rationally think of what is to come, because it is unknown, although we of course try our very best to. The present is the frontline of both, swallowed by the future, smashed under the weight of the past.
Yesterday, when I was invited to join one of those cherry-blossom-consuming families, I cherished the potential. I dreamt of a happy consequence. And so did everyone else. We started consuming alchohol. They started consuming too much alcohol. Their children saw how their parents were turning into a drunken, loud bunch of impolite creatures. I didn't have a good time. And I know the cause. Just like when these kids will be traumatised adults, the cause will be thought of. But for now, we can only hope they haven't been traumatised. Although we fear they will be. For now, I can only hope for the best.
The neutrality of potential is both unbearable as well as thankful. It is up to us to either positivize*, negativize* or maintain the neutrality of this potential (by merely doing nothing). Either way, it is consumption of the potential. By consuming the potential, by acting upon it, we create the link between the past cause and the future consequence. Funny thing is: potential is not part of the past, and it is not part of the future. It is now. Only in the present there is potential.
*these terms imply a certain morality in all actions and facts, but the concrete content of this morality is solely depending on the consumer's reading of the potential
Everything we do in life is a form of consumption I guess. And in a sense, consumption is a form of recycling. Like burning petrol can make your car drive, watching a porn movie can make your hands move. Life, this world, is all about triggering, causing, connecting, relaying, executing, consecuting, expressing and consuming. (I realize this statement doesn't surpass the level of cheap hollywood philosophy, most likely to be uttered by some advertising agent through his nokia cell phone in a porsche convertible, but allow me to continue this monologue, most likely only to be read by a maximum of ten people.)
Cause-and-consequence is the basic formula for any fact and/or existence. I think this and therefore I think that. We have sex and therefore you are pregnant. Or at least, there is a possibility or -even better- potential for it.
It is because we have sex, you can get pregnant.
That is why we cannot speak of because A is the cause, therefore B is the consequence, with A being the cause and B being the consequence.
It is not because we have sex that you are pregnant. No, you are pregnant because we have sex.
Because B is the consequence, therefore A is the cause.
I know, I know, this sounds like extreme gibberish and linguistically I suppose there isn't any problem whatsoever. But what I would like to point out here is the following: we fear and/or dream of future consequences, we think of past causes. We have sex and fear aids (or dream of a baby), but we think of who might have infected us. We don't fear or dream of what has already been, and we don't really rationally think of what is to come, because it is unknown, although we of course try our very best to. The present is the frontline of both, swallowed by the future, smashed under the weight of the past.
Yesterday, when I was invited to join one of those cherry-blossom-consuming families, I cherished the potential. I dreamt of a happy consequence. And so did everyone else. We started consuming alchohol. They started consuming too much alcohol. Their children saw how their parents were turning into a drunken, loud bunch of impolite creatures. I didn't have a good time. And I know the cause. Just like when these kids will be traumatised adults, the cause will be thought of. But for now, we can only hope they haven't been traumatised. Although we fear they will be. For now, I can only hope for the best.
The neutrality of potential is both unbearable as well as thankful. It is up to us to either positivize*, negativize* or maintain the neutrality of this potential (by merely doing nothing). Either way, it is consumption of the potential. By consuming the potential, by acting upon it, we create the link between the past cause and the future consequence. Funny thing is: potential is not part of the past, and it is not part of the future. It is now. Only in the present there is potential.
*these terms imply a certain morality in all actions and facts, but the concrete content of this morality is solely depending on the consumer's reading of the potential
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