From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700 Subject: Flatten directory structure All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /. I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make linking easier. I'm still thinking about whether I should move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into an 'assets' folder of some sort. We'll see. --- src/movingsideways.txt | 54 -------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 54 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/movingsideways.txt (limited to 'src/movingsideways.txt') diff --git a/src/movingsideways.txt b/src/movingsideways.txt deleted file mode 100644 index c532447..0000000 --- a/src/movingsideways.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Moving Sideways -id: movingsideways -genre: prose - -project: - title: Book of Hezekiah - class: hezekiah - order: 5 - next: - - title: Problems - link: problems - prev: - - title: Proverbs - link: proverbs -... - -A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk. -Thus if you want to be mindful of the movings of the universe sideways, become either drunk or sick. -By doing this you remove yourself from the equation, and are able to observe, without being observed, the universe as it dances sideways drunkenly. - -Shit wait. -The problem is not that by observing you are observed (although quantum mechanics may disagree[^1]), because obviously dogs don't know we're observing them when we watch them through cameras in their little yard while they play and eat and poop---who poops knowingly on camera? -The problem is *the actual act of observing that distorts the world into what we want it to be*. - -What I want to know is this: Why is this necessarily a problem? -The dog is made, by mankind, to frolic and poop and sniff and growl and dig. -Why cannot the man be made to observe the world incorrectly around him, and worry about it? -Men have always wandered about the earth; does it not make sense that also they should wonder in their minds what makes it all work?[^2] -In fact this is the very center of the creative being: the ability to move sideways, to dance with reality and judge it as it judges you, much like teenagers at the junior prom. - -Of course, reality doesn't judge us back. -But that doesn't mean that it doesn't! -If you think it's judging you, then *observe in your surroundings your own insecurities*. -It is obvious that this way of doing things is far from vogue; usually projecting [inner pain][] onto the outer world is classified as pathology. -However, this is because it is assumed that the outer world is *on its own terms*, which it obviously isn't, as far as we know. -It follows that as [there is no backdrop][backdrop] against which to judge our quirks, the quirks must not exist. -Thus all is right with the world. - -[inner pain]: telemarketer.html -[backdrop]: philosophy.html - -[^1]: Quantum mechanics, as is well known, are the most hornery and - least agreeable of all mechanics. The cost to get one quantum - serviced is usually at least eight times more expensive than the - cost of an average automobile tune-up, for reasons not clearly - known. The quantum mechanics themselves claim it's the smallness of - their work that justifies the price, but it doesn't really look like - they're doing anything, and besides, my quantum always seems to - break again within six months---maybe I'm just driving it too hard. - -[^2]: I attempted to strike this terrible pun from the account, but - Hezekiah demanded I keep it if he were to continue the relation of - his prophecy-slash-advice column. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81