Freitag, 10. Juli 2015

How is the dystopian unrealistic?

The reality is vast and messy. To make sense of it, people start from the bits immediate to them and gradually extend outwards to grapple more and more in their conceptualization of (the reality of) the world. As the amount of information increases, categories are made and disciplines are created to aid organization. Such conceptualization (or the understanding) of (parts of) the reality in a categorical manner, however, unavoidably rips (or fragments) the whole of the reality in conceptualization. Soon enough further the practice of specialization, only (fragments of) particular elements that deemed to be of the closest relevance to the selected constructed particular disciplines (or specizaliations) are usually considered. That is to say that disciplinarity makes the complex reality more easily understandable (or graspable), but at the same time presents only a partial and likely reductionist view of the reality should one only focus on particular disciplines i.e. giving less regard to other disciplines.

But what is reality? I believe that there is no objective reality but everyone has a subjective reality of their own. In other words, each individual's conceptualization constitutes the external (collective) yet still subjective reality.

And opinions can be shaped by the powerful. The subjective manipulated by the external. In the extreme case of 1984 for example, the reality is indeed that of the big brother delivered through the telescreen. 

July 9 2015 - struggling so much with my dissertation you can't believe

Freitag, 3. Juli 2015

new ends, old beginnings

at then i was looking at this album that i probably haven't touched since 2012
or was it 2011

so there was this one person who looked really happy under my camera
and i looked happy under the camera of this person's too

and then something happened
and the person just disappeared in my life
i made the person disappeared, and that person made the person disappeared too
and that person was once so important

it's a shame

how many episodes does one life contain
that chapter seems to be a completely completed one
as if the character had died so that nothing else would grow out of it
nothing lingers and there was barely any transition to any of the subsequent ones
it just halted
as abruptly as it could be

scarily this
is another
and this seems to be near its end too

how many more short stories are there in my novel

new ends, old beginnings