Many of my blog posts are ultimately about the aquiery of information. There are so many aspects of this, that I don't think that ever needs to change. Why It deals with it's accuiery, and not with it's exhistence, is simply that I cannot presume that everyone has the same information, and starting at the end would therefore seem silly. I try to take things in strides, and not underestimate any eventual readers. But this leads to a rather similar structure in many of my posts. They become biographical. I tell about this and that discovery, and how the knowledge developed for me.
Process is ipmortant. Thorugh the exploration of my own history, I often find clues about how to obtain information. Everyone is in a strict sense an autodidact. No one else can imprint information in your brain for you. But there are ways and there are ways. I am by nature a person that spends a lot of time thinking about things (I heard this as a child) - and I suspect that's why I seldom needed help with school related matters from my parents.
When it came to teaching my self an instrument I was, and I suspect will ever be horribly untalented. A piano teacher struggled with me for many years. I made virtually no progress. But with abstract thinking at least, I did make progress.
The upwards struggle was natural, but earned. But I found out that for many of the things I learned, one need not crawl upwards through years and years of trying and failing. One can learn it... sideways. If someone spendt their timeline going forwards, then you can with one glance take a look at their whole timeline, and then attack all of the problems they faced at once. This is often possible, because they first ran into one proble, then solved this, and so went on to discover the next problem through learning the other one. Also, there may have been solutions in the future that nullified whole swathes of related problems in the past.
I suspect quantum computing will be like this. It took a long time for computing to come as far as it has done today. But our mastery of logic and abstractions has come far from the fifties, and when we build entirely new processor architecture for quantum computing, we won't start at scratch - we'll start... sideways.
But as we know - it is still easyer to eat a sausage from the ends than sideways. And so it can be with timelines. What I try to do when I write though, is take away the hardships, and apply the lessons of the end of the timeline, to the whole thing, and then sort away any non- relevant information for the whole picture in the begining. And so we begin at the begining, Chewing our way through time as defined by the now quckly and steadily, only stopping here and there to admire some particularily interesting mustard, or savour a bit of fried onion.
Besides, a personal touch can be interesting. Some of my firends read my blog sometimes, and I presume that they are somehow interested in my personal history, just as I am intested in theirs. Why not tell it in bits an pieces - one related to my discovery of atheism and religion, one to my discovery of philosophy, one to the developement to my social awareness, my awareness of justice, of respect, of sociological discources, of the rhythms of music, of the historical drive of videogames and so on.
This is why my blog posts seem to be so abstract. They are abstract! Even where they seem specific, there is always a tale relating to the overall picture. Even the reviews are abstract, barely noticing the story they tell of opportunities lost, dissapointments of the lack of use of artistic visual awarness, the presence of humour, or the forcefullness of the characters. They are abstract. The words only provide a key to unlock the experience, not the content of that experience at all.
One of the greates pleasures I have in life, is the discovery of a point I didn't hear before. The point of a joke, the joke of a situation, the unexpected turn of a song. I try to provide those moments for other too. Giving someone an abstraction, is giving them a key, and if it is sometimes just a bit hard to grasp at first, then the reward for discovering the true meaning will be only greater. I'm not trying to say that I'm smarter, and so can write clever conundrums for other lesser people to unlock - it is just that such is the nature of an abstraction, that it is but a shadow of the truth, and that the joy of discovering the truth will only be found by it's subsequent extrapolation and re- reflection. However, to make an abstract, one must read the whole book. When I reviewed inFamous 2, I probably spent 30- some hours playing the game, and then I spendt quite a bit of time thinking and writing about it. It is the same way with the other themes I write about. I really do spend quite some time thinking about it.
These days I read about "social space". It is the concept of a field where interaction can occur. But before I am prepared to describe this, I have a few more books to read.
And so we go again. From the small theme, information, to the process, to the direction... an example (interesting mustard). And in the end the halt and the twist - the true point revealed after hard paragraphs of labour through layers of strange relations. And still we know that a five minute read, however compressed, can never reveal the whole of the truth behind anything, no matter how small. But that is what it is like; being human.
