I need help figuring this
out. I really don’t get a certain dissonance between my views and the views of
a select other group of people that seems surprisingly large. I ask for this
help because some people seem to state things that are not just at odds with my
opinion but seems so fundamentally at odds with to me things that seem
axiomatic and necessary that I presume either there is some mistranslation or that
there is a massive psychological difference between us.
Let me begin with a simple
premise that surely anyone can agree with; consistency is good.
What I mean by this is
that it is better for things to align correctly then to be misaligned. This to
me is the very…. the foundation of cognition and thought. Rationality requires that
the rules of reality do not suddenly shift. Ethics require that morality does
not suddenly shift. We presume that there is a constancy to how things work.
I can honestly say that I
judge primarily all things by a single metric, everything and that metric is
the metric of elegance, or unity you could translate it. It is the metric of
Anti-Chaos.
What do I mean by that?
When I say “elegance” I refer to the synching up of elements that are disparate.
Again “Unity” may be another good translation for the concept I intuit. Let me
give examples from fiction and perhaps it will make this more concrete.
If a character acts one
way but then goes out of character acts contrary to their nature, that would be
a de-synching of character’s past and character’s present and is therefore an
inelegance that is bad. It is a disunity, a lack of stability in the fictional
universe’s rules. The same would apply if a character acts irrational in a way
that is not internally consistent. That is a desynching of the character and
reality and thus is an inelegance and bad.
There is a sort of…. semi-ontological
and semi-spiritual aspect to this…it is the grandest realization to me that
everything is one…that all things are derived from primordial principle that
the laws of the reality trace backwards more and more fundamentally until one
reaches origin. The ideal fiction, or anything really, is derived similarly, as
the elegant extension of what is.
Perhaps it would be
easier to explain what seems at odds with elegance. Other people seem to not
only not mind but outright enjoy what I would describe as inelegance. Disunity.
Arbitrary-ness. Often, they will describe it something like “quirky” or the
like and I don’t…. I can’t intuit that idea as except as being in opposition to
the elegance that is vital. Things that are seemingly random or are added
without purpose are shallow, meaningless and detract from the unity. It’s
difficult to even speak of this because it’s so intuitive and all-encompassing
in my mind. The pursuit of coherence, elegance, and unity, I can say without
exaggeration, makes up every action, thought and feeling that I have. The
avoidance of discord, arbitrariness, and disunity.
Very popular series will
often put things together that don’t go together, and this in itself is
supposed to be taken as enjoyable to witness…and I don’t get it. I legitimately
feel no enjoyment from watching disparate elements act out of concert with each
other.
Even with my favorite series
in fiction, I don’t get any enjoyment from things that are disunified or inelegant.
The absolute ideal work of fiction, one which is impossible for humanity to
actually achieve but is the sort of platonic ideal of what should be, is I
would imagine a work where everything is so perfectly elegant and unified that
every moment of it is exactly what it ontologically must be, and each part
works in perfect unison towards the whole. Again, this is not something that
can ever be, but it is the platonic ideal to me that shows what should be good.
What’s weird to me is I will sometimes hear people suggest things in this
direction, but they will not take it to it’s logical extreme.
I become somewhat uneasy when
people act in opposition to this because it is so central to how my mind works
that if other people truly do not feel it, then it suggests their minds are
very alien indeed.
I cannot overstate how… central
this is to all my thinking. Everything I think, even what seems to be agreed on
with others, is derived from the notion of the central elegance and unity of
the cosmos, and on it’s goodness and desirability. Everything I believe and
have stated, I can defend as being derived from the notion of the underlying unity
to all things, and I do all I can to try and purge my mind of inconsistency. A
and Not-A absolutely cannot both be true. This is the basis for which all truth
must be understood, that the antithesis premises can not both be true, ignoring
semantic word games. From this, I have done my best to derive my view,
consistent with the notion that the universe does not contradict itself.
That so many others do
not share this notion, is a deeply troubling notion to me, for it suggests a
relative isolation of the self.
So please help me figure
this out; why do others not just tolerate but enjoy a deliberate creation of disunity,
a deliberate inelegance.
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