Another belief I hold is that reality is very fluid, non-linea | EN EREBOS PHOS
Another belief I hold is that reality is very fluid, non-linear, and far less hard-edged and clearly defined than is generally accepted. This belief does not serve those who prefer everyone to only choose from a very limited set of roads or tracks. A society with only ten choices for how to live is far easier to manage than one with three hundred. This control process only works because some parts of our psychology prefer these conditions as well, with every option clearly stated, defined, and rated. Given that, how do we become less set in our ways? And how do we know what we would rather do instead? How can we tell what is native or intrinsic to us and what is not-us, but is more like a pattern overlaid on top of us?
These questions are wound together like the roots of trees in a forest or neural nets. It’s hard to answer one question and take action on it without also knowing and taking action on many others. This can result in paralysis by analysis, where we think and think but never move. Whatever we are doing and experiencing now, we know. It may suck, and may even be debilitating, but we know it. We understand it. There is a kind of comfort there, even in painful or abusive situations. Better the devil you know. The always scarier option is to step off of the tracks, to leave the safe path, and to step into the void or abyss of uncertain outcomes. Will it be better? Worse? The same? This uncertainty keeps us locked in the groove until we get to a place where we decide: anything is better than this. That decision is the edge of the void, and it usually only comes from not being able to remain functional within the structures in which we find ourselves. We remain inside the groove or cage until the sense of being trapped becomes so oppressive that we no longer care if different equals better. We just want and need something different, because to stay the same is to relinquish our souls.
Aidan Wachter - Weaving Fate
