The Examined Life, Episode 5: Blazed and Confused

[AlgeKalipso]

When I am gearing into the world practically, in an absorbed way, things present themselves as meaningfully co-ordinated with the projects in which I am engaged; they show me the face that is relevant to what I am doing. But the connection between these meanings and my projects is not itself something that I experience. Rather, the pen's usefulness, its value as a pen, appears simply to belong to it in the same way that its weight or color does. In the mood of anxiety, however, I see the absurd.

[drumrjln]

haha, good luck sleeping on that shit!

good stuff