[Inquiry] Blocks On The Road Of Inquiry

[Jon Awbrey]

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BOTROI.  Note 1

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In the odd moments, that come between the more even moments of my ongoing work,
I find myself be-musing over the "reception of pragmatic thinking", and why it
just doesn't seem to be catching on the way that I continually hope it might.

So the next thing I think about is the obstacles that might be obstructing
its acceptance, its actualization, its adoption in practice, its progress,
it reception, its transmission, however you want to signal the roadblock.

My diagnosis of the problem, as I have come to be acquainted with it
over many long years, but much more poignantly since I left my attic
and ventured onto the web of maya of late e-wrapturing the world,
is that it primarily has to do with the grip of a pre-existing
condition, the die-hard resistance of archaic and regressive
ways of thinking, what I used to know in my psychological
days as "psychic revenants", but I can't recall now
if the phrase came from Freud or Jung or whoever.

The first block that comes to mind would be the methodological error
that I sometimes recognize as the "reification of categories" (ROC),
also known as the "reification of classes, concepts, ideas, ideals",
and a host of other parasites that sap the life-blood of the mind.

As I begin to reflect on it more critically, I gradually come realize
that both the diagnosis and the treatment of this malady are far more
difficult to pursue with any hope of success than it might first seem,
and so I will set aside a few more odd moments to thinking about that.

Jon Awbrey

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