Wandering&Wondering

There seems to be a widespread, mostly unspoken expectation that the world is supposed to calm our fears. That reality, people, systems, certainty, or answers should make us feel psychologically secure.

The River Between Us

The collective consensus (even if not admitted, not realized) is that the past has nothing to do with our present, that we can separate the two and “simply live here, now.”
At the same time, we also pick specific times of the past and certain incidents that we think not only affect the present, but are the cause of it.

Babel

In the story of Tower of Babel, the confusion isn’t that people suddenly speak different words—it’s that the same words no longer point to the same thing.

“Babel” isn’t just many languages. It’s the loss of shared reference to reality.

The Between

”And if the experiment fails,
It’s like being the first person on the moon.
Hopefully, we’ll learn something from it.
That’s how science works, doesn’t it?”

When Understanding Becomes Possible

 

We usually say, “I don’t understand.”
More often we mean, “I don’t agree.”
Or, more subconsciously, “What I’m understanding makes me uncomfortable.”

So what is understanding?

On Self-Relation

 

Something is off in how we communicate today — and it shows up in two opposite ways. On one side, there is constant talking: commentary, opinions, positions, explanations. On the other, there is a growing silence: people disappearing from conversations, from participation, from contact.

Noise can be empty, and silence can be a form of withdrawal rather than peace.