Dec 15, 2002 15:45
I read somewhere that to give a name to a thing was to control it and this made sense to me. A name circumscribes a particular area of The Cloud, puts a handle on it easily grasped by the opposable digits of my mind and allows me to wield it. The drawback is that things which lack names have no handles and are immune to my reckoning. The notion that I fail to see what I cannot name suggests that I have a sort of visualization impairment. There's got to be a way to short circuit the path to go from visualization directly to understanding.
With that being said, somebody made a most astute observation of me last night: I am driving an emotional Datsun even though I have the resources for a Lexus. That is to say, I have impoverished myself emotionally where there's no real need for it. It's all about fear. I've always vaguely sensed this problem, but until someone put a name to it, I never fully understood.