Digestion

 

Romanticism / Pavel Svinyin/ Steamboat Travel on the Hudson River

Went to sleep early last night (imagine that), when I woke up late this AM, I was still a’ pondering a piece I read yesterday.  (https://read.lukeburgis.com/p/25-anti-mimetic-ideas).  

Not a bad piece at all.  The ideas are sound across the board.  But this morning I woke up to the not-necessarily-uncomfortable thought that when someone like Luke writes about being anti-mimetic, he is using mimetic techniques to sell the ideas.  

I tend to look at things differently, and I am thinking that while I seem to agree with Luke as to the specific goals he propounds in the post, I am immediately suspicious of his desire to sell me a subscription ($80.00/Year).  I can’t see this as any different than a preacher passing a plate, or to be more or less charitable, depending on your view, a college charging tuition.

I am suspicious of gurus.  What seems to be a good idea might just be a way of luring me into a church of some sort or another.  But on the other hand, his ideas may well stand up to a serious think.

Right now I am thinking about thinking.  I am also thinking about how my conscious thinking is affected by external circumstances and unwitting desires that I don’t appear to have any control over.  I am gonna ponder the twenty-five suggestions that Luke and use them as chumming for my own posts.  Hell, who knows, he might be right across the board.

I still ain’t gonna pay him $80.00.