I believe humans are too clung to their philosophies, they project their skillsets into a "way of being" and cling to some philosophy or a perscription for human life based on their own interests.

A gardener might feel that peaceful, life-affirming actions are "the way to do things"

A veteran might have a gun cabinet in their basement and view their strategy as "the way to do things"

A law researcher might find a lot of strategies for their own legal defense and see this as "the way to do things"

An angry sabateur might mask up at night breaking cameras and see it as "the way to do things"

These are all ways to do things. I don't like when I get the impression that people are compartmentalizing their own niche as the right way. The real key to me is a deviation from whatever narrative, whatever seeming habit is seemingly programmed. I know the argument that always pops up. "Yeah but if you do it this way you're playing into their hands."

I think basically we don't know anything. I get annoyed at the thought that we start getting confident that we know anything. But at least my hunch is that deviation ("like zebras" as Courtney suggests) of any kind that appears "untamed" in a way, is a pretty reasonable idea.

Anyways it's just basically . . . we don't have a fucking clue, still. So there's no point in perscribing the action.

The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing at all....

@taz:

"But at least my hunch is that deviation ("like zebras" as Courtney suggests) of any kind that appears "untamed" in a way, is a pretty reasonable idea."

So, you're playing with the idea that being a "zebra" is the way to do things. 😉

Let me tell you how I escaped this paradox:

To be means to do things. If you do nothing – and I mean nothing, as in not even projecting a body into the field – it's like you don't exist. At least not for the world around you. (Which by the way is how to escape the death traps.)

You want to be a gardener? Be a gardener then. You don't want to be a gardener anymore? Just stop gardening.

You are not forced to do things.

But you will do them anyway.

The "not do things" is good too