November 2015 (Martin’s Mill, Geraldton)

-> May 2016 (Cooladdi, Coorow)

Facade/Persona

Facade – presented to others

‘Mask’ perceived and

projected by others = Persona

Values

Values are ends based

• or as means to ends, thus ends based.

Don’t confuse means with the ends.

• e.g.
  Religion with spirituality
  University with education.
  Cricket with sport.

Effective Truth

The Importance of Being Earnest

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her

if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”

• Oscar Wilde

Sincerity – see writing in ‘A Fool’s Folly’

I finally get it:

Sincerity = free from pretence or deceit, proceeding

from genuine feelings.

• facade/persona dynamic
  

In being insincere with others (via facade), we

end up compromising inherency – centroversion.

Photos test

The Waterfall

Inherency/Centroversion

The subjective assists the objective and vice versa.

Art/Tolstoy

“Art is a means of union

among men.”

• Leo Tolstoy

Serendipity

Unintended consequences matter far more than the intended ones…than those intended.

Truly good intentions create great unintended consequences.

3 Approaches

Obligations Vs Rights

Rights – people should treat me like…

Obligations – I should treat people like…

Steve Jobs – I believe in equal opportunity;

I do not believe in equal outcome.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Desire and Values; Ends & Means

Ends = an articulation of desire (ineffable feeling)

Means = an articulation of values

The stupidity of goals…Futile due to evolving desire.

Value Amplification

Argument

“When two people argue over principles, both of them are right.” – Unknown

Tom Wolfe

“Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity.“ – Tom Wolfe

“It is a rule, to which there has never been an exception, that when an actor or a television performer rises up to the microphone at one of these awards ceremonies and expresses moral indignation over something, he illustrates Marshall McLuhan’s dictum that ‘moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity.” ― Tom Wolfe

Gustave Flaubert

“What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the internal strength of its style.” – Gustave Flaubert

Effortless!

2019 – creates internal appropriation/exaptation (in reader) via external transmission (effortless).

Tracy Thompson

“The unexamined life is not worth living, and the unlived life is not worth examining.” – Tracy Thompson

2019 = Blake’s perception – the union of subject and object = centroversion.