I've recently learned that Blaise Pascal's Pensées were a collection of his thoughts which he planned to put back in a coherent order before his death, allegedly, but he was never able to, resulting in several editors and readers disagreeing about the correct one.
I mention this because these monthly posts are much the same: mostly just whatever I feel is worth writing about, in an order which tries to be coherent but is ultimately largely arbitrary.
I believe that much of the history of non-fiction writing and thinking in general were this way, which is greatly emphasized by the fact that thinkers didn't specialize anywhere near as much as they do now. It seems to me that this is when the best ideas come: when one isn't too concerned about achieving a certain goal or whatnot, and simply interested in perceiving whatever is happening with honesty.
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2024-04-13