“Why can I never make my mind into something that I can think of?” – Ursula Le Gin.
Someone called it modern ideology, “solutionism,” the principle that governs everyday life. Even still existentialists Solution: Make it yourself.
I’m glad that one after another is a solution and finding the problem. Patriots thrive in deported aliens. Conservatives accuse the liberals of causing problems, and liberals know it’s the Conservatives’ fault. Just as cynicians need nonsense to make a living, the president needs to be crazy to make sense. Great entrepreneurs solve even more problems when we get bored of ourselves. If the hook is “your problem matters”, it’s almost next to the point even if the vitamin package is thrown into the bag. We look for solutions that don’t work for problems we don’t have.
With his novel The last gentleman, Walker Percy has one character who says his problems made him feel good. The main character says, “It was the impression he felt good not only from him, but also from the hurricane.” In previous essays, Percy had asked what was worse in a bad environment and worse in a comfortable place. He said it was a question of how we frame the questions rather than finding the answer. (Sunny days are more pressure to be happy.)
Science wants a better explanation. In her article, The Strange Storms of Storms, the journalist reports that research in Oxford and Cambridge shows that biochemistry is the solution. Extreme weather makes you feel better because of what is called “negative ion density.” This is also the most enjoyable reason to sing in the shower, explained by steam clouds.
Perhaps the negative ion says, “How do you know how these planes crash because the FAA believes in diversity?” “I have common sense.” There is. “It’s another way to feel good in a bad environment.
The well-known author of science fiction, Ursula Le Gin, makes sense by showing how to deal with nonsense. In her novel The left hand of darkness, She starts with a fierce, counterintuitive introduction. “Trustrate everything I say. I’m telling the truth. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent and unbearable uncertainty.
Looking at this way, Le Guin examines another world like us where prediction and uncertainty coexist, and wisdom does not know the solution, but understands which questions go against the answer. It suggests that this is true. Her character learns to stop thinking that ambiguity can be conquered, and instead welcomes the need. “You can’t answer them to know which questions are not answered. This skill is most necessary in times of stress and darkness,” as one of her characters says, “I’ve got the wrong question.” I want to show that it’s absolutely useless to know the answer to that.”
This is “a nation for the elderly,” and as in another title suggests, it may be so for now. Having problems that don’t have a solution is difficult in a broken culture like us, but there is no way to tell the truth without causing any further trouble.
It’s not that comfortable. Neither of them “collect in the pale light of answers to questions that we are afraid to ask.” “The darkness is only in deadly eyes, and I think we see it, but there are some that are more comfortable than old people or cats.”
“Lord, I want the clarity of the catastrophe, but I confess that it is not a catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm that I can dance with.
I want an excuse to change my life. ”
– Franny Choi, The world continues to end, the world continues to end (2022)
Easy for defense
Approx. 2 + 2 = 5
Source: 2 + 2 = 5 – williamgreen.substack.com
