Current

 September 25, 2022

The “Current”

What is current? What is the current? I mentioned the current that moves you…

The faster you move, the faster moves the current that moves you… What is the current if it is not the contemporary? Because the contemporary is a who, who that you are contemporary with. But the current that sweeps you along, like the movements of people making history that Tolstoy wrote about at the end of War and Peace, on free will, it's like a current in a river too isn't it? The point I'm making is that you can not choose the what of what War and Peace is. The free will that exists is the sum of infinitesimals and not the choice of a totality, fully your creation. Nothing happens through being fully in control of your circumstances. The, and perhaps the only, free will is to not fight the current, but to swim. The material or other influential circumstances that exist to formulate your life are about the materials and manner in which, on which and through which you have to work. If you existed in a void, or an environment of which you were totally in control, there would be no resistance to you, to constitute traction for your motion towards completion or progress towards your task. There are all kinds of foolish things you can do. Avoiding that means doing something, in the presence of those options, present to be foolish, gives you the chance to resist and therefore propel yourself backward with more force. Is it motivated by desire? Perhaps only in a manner of speaking, but the object of the desire is always elsewhere from the distractions, again in a manner of speaking. The problematic that you walk through on the way there, are your materials tho' they may appear obstacles.