No Why | Animism

The cost of a linguistic tick is bone on bone. You get older. Joint replacement more likely. Though they said Russell nodded before weighty answers. Students of his copied then passed it along.

Kellerman was ecstatic, visioning. A flea circus with ticks and fleas. Well trained dog, a home when the show is over.

Ritual reaches for making the unknowable regular, the divine transcendent to immanence in the earth shod, selfish, manipulated every day. We can’t explain why some people can overcome addiction and others can’t. Circular with the question why the divine moves some and not others. The unknown scary or intimate. Loved and feared or scorned irrelevant. Ritual confirms both all readings. 

The decisions we make as output have ticks as well. Besides not spending time to decide not to act on a tick. It is tough, even with self awareness, knowing the harm: external image, internal structure, bone on bone. Passing it on to others. Harm passed on. Lack of control passed on. Susceptibility to self criticism patterned around the habit. Raise awareness without impacting self image. 

Explainability is a human problem. AI reflects that back. 

SURFACES
Everything we don’t know and can never know, including why we do certain things. Maybe most things. Why some things are easy and others hard. Some we pay attention to, those we choose not to. For some unknown and unknowable reason. The divine is unknowable even when brought in through ritual or when not, even in a moment. But being unknowable doesn’t mean it’s not impactful. Another thing we can’t explain. Explainability gets less and less important. Particularly when we get closer to states where optionality ends.