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The exterior details of my life have continued to shift dramatically, while the person in the situations I'm in remains the same. Except for that part, a few weeks ago, where I "broke up" with a part of myself. (We are still not on speaking terms.)
The ruminations I currently have could be framed in terms of a personal policy, I guess:
1. On my tendency to formalize.
I have one. Sometimes it benefits the situation, sometimes not. It needs flexibility:
Don't track a process (only) for the sake of tracking; track for the sake of the process you care to have happen.
A to-do list must be a list of things that will get done, whether or not you ever look again at the to-do list.
2. Distinctions made facing my current inability to go to a band concert without seriously considering writing some better band music, for example.
In the presence of someone else's work; a piece of a culture; especially one that is (closed to / not interested in) your work, your pieces of culture, your response:
Appreciation is the capacity to enjoy someone else's work, without changing your own to-do list.
Advocacy is the attempt to represent someone else's work with a description.
Emulation is the attempt to "do what it did", on some level. (This can only be done using some description made of the work.)
Acquiescence is the attempt to do what it "wants" you to do (which may be to emulate it, to advocate for it, or even resist it).
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Appreciation's desirability is questionable in a world where I want to be in conversation with others via our compositions.
Unless I make a project of advocacy, I am only acquiescing to the work's desire to be talked about.
The ruminations I currently have could be framed in terms of a personal policy, I guess:
1. On my tendency to formalize.
I have one. Sometimes it benefits the situation, sometimes not. It needs flexibility:
Don't track a process (only) for the sake of tracking; track for the sake of the process you care to have happen.
A to-do list must be a list of things that will get done, whether or not you ever look again at the to-do list.
2. Distinctions made facing my current inability to go to a band concert without seriously considering writing some better band music, for example.
In the presence of someone else's work; a piece of a culture; especially one that is (closed to / not interested in) your work, your pieces of culture, your response:
Appreciation is the capacity to enjoy someone else's work, without changing your own to-do list.
Advocacy is the attempt to represent someone else's work with a description.
Emulation is the attempt to "do what it did", on some level. (This can only be done using some description made of the work.)
Acquiescence is the attempt to do what it "wants" you to do (which may be to emulate it, to advocate for it, or even resist it).
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Appreciation's desirability is questionable in a world where I want to be in conversation with others via our compositions.
Unless I make a project of advocacy, I am only acquiescing to the work's desire to be talked about.