(Segment 7)
Clouds are swarming over head; their encroachment has led to sub-zero wind conditions. Meaning that, and bear with me here, there isn’t any actual kinetic energy held by the wind, can that make sense? Where normal winds are formed by temperature and pressure gradients, these winds exist within the sub-zero pocket. Perhaps instead, these winds are being formed when intensely vacuous air pockets attract surrounding air inwards. Vacuum spots (spots of the atmosphere exhibiting a completely empty nature) are not caused by loud, irritating vacuuming. Rather, when a wind has become cold enough – sub-zero – a collapsing occurs. Without the necessary kinetic energy, a cold pocket will collapse inwards, rendering itself a vacuum.
Picture this:
A snowman melting into red desert sand.
The eyes of the snowman – stones from a local quarry – begin sliding downwards, no longer held up by the fast-melting ice. The snow is losing its supportive crystalline structure.
It is important for you to fill in the gaps. Does the red desert sand get lighter or darker when wet with the lifeblood of our snowman friend? Can you conceive of this scene taking place in the abstract plain? Wherein, the abstract plain is a special desert plain, renowned for its defiance of physical laws that govern most other plains. The red desert sand on the abstract desert plain is actually blue. But it is also red. Can you see it? On the abstract desert plain, a snowman will melt upwards by remaining consistently solid, yet always dripping. Given enough time, the snowman will have wet all of the sand in the abstract desert plain while simultaneously growing in size.
Rest now young one,
too much thinking about the abstract desert plain will give you a very real headache.
How does one frame such ramblings in a productive manner? The commodity of a productive society is tangible productive input (creating crops, melting plastic and pursuing lawsuits), and consequently every action is framed through this lens. Am I doing something useful? Will this make a difference to someone, somewhere, somehow? These questions are continuously prompted in moments of unsurety. Moments of unsurety exist necessarily in the exploration of new ideas, new processes, and importantly; when one is writing something that only comes into existence (I mean here both physically and conceptually) during the act of writing.
But why do I mention this conception? Well first and foremost; because it is in my head. Which in turn is because I have been made keenly aware of the inhibitor chip located within my frontal lobe. Frontal lobe shenanigans result from our framings of life and thus, the productive-society-framing inarguably leads me down the path towards productivity and away from the abstract desert plain. I simply had to walk up a hill, being buffeted by some moving cold air to write about an enlarging snowman. Is this productive? I want to live in a world where it is, but I am not sure that is the case, I shall have to see.
Try to build a house on the abstract desert plain.