Splintered Blog 13: Ambivalent synergy
Duplicity is rarely a singular attribute
6/17/20262 min read
Sometimes two seemingly contradictory things can be true at once.
Confusion can be revelatory.
Uncertainty can be determinative.
Down can be up if viewed from different angles, which I suppose might be said of a great many things. Also, and less intuitively, the orientation may be prone to conflicting interpretations. This is especially true when declarative waffling rears its ugly head.
Mirror image machinations have the uncomfortable habit of pointing in both one and two directions simultaneously (if at all). This is not only a false dichotomy, it’s also a valid one, if seen through a lens that both amplifies and diminishes (regarding scale and distance obviously). If this sounds dubious blame it on being thematic in nature. Coming and going are attributes that can be concurrent, regarding the distance between starting point and destination. Unless those two variables happen to be identical in which case you haven’t traveled at all, have you?
I thought not.
As Daria once posited: extreme shallowness can give the illusion of depth under the right circumstances, normally incongruous attributes that nevertheless share a common base meaning. Also, sometimes, feeling paralyzed is actually a thing. Although this is largely a mental exercise but you get my meaning. And if you don’t, well, no surprise there. It’s no different than thoughtless ponderances—a deliberate aberration of undefined meaning. I can count on one hand all the ways I’m unable to add up these fickle conclusions in any way that might make a sizeable modicum of sense. So I guess that option isn’t a potential choice either.
To be pointedly blunt: None of this matters as much as it doesn’t. Which is to say any outcome would most likely be unfeasible as a result, or might result in anything but a malleable conviction. Both of these possibilities are equally divisive. And for the record: dubious certitude can and will act as an unfettered way to secure limited perspectives that might otherwise be all- encompassing.
A simple matter of complexity to be sure, on its face anyway; engaged with never-ending brevity until finality opens new doors through which our most disinterested obsessions can be conveyed.