have an insane new year

Joy, am­bi­tion, gain, sad­ness, re­gret, loss …
It’s a new year and this leads to analysis. 

          The truth of all ex­pe­ri­ences, though, is that they only mat­ter as much as one makes them mat­ter. Typ­i­cal­ly, of the past year, only the great­est suc­cess and the worst agony is re­mem­bered. This is the act of a fool in my eyes, be­cause these are ac­tu­al­ly not what mat­ters most.

It’s the small ac­tions and mi­cro trans­ac­tions that lead us to our large scale re­al­i­ties. These are near­ly im­per­cep­ti­ble ac­tions we make every day that erode away the ma­jes­tic moun­tain we call life. 

Michel Fou­cault [L’archéologie du savoir] and Friedrich Ni­et­zsche [Un­time­ly Med­i­ta­tions] both ar­gued that we an­a­lyze his­to­ry in­cor­rect­ly by feel­ing we should look at it in some dis­in­ter­est­ed way in or­der to learn how it all was in the past. They both also ar­gued that the only rea­son to look into the past is to pull out ideas, con­cepts, and ex­am­ples which could help us to lead a bet­ter life in our more mod­ern sce­nar­ios. I say this ap­plies both on a glob­al macro scale and in a per­son­al mi­cro scale.

Lessons come from mi­croag­gres­sions, the small acts of kind­ness that ad­just the air of the day, the lethar­gic ac­tions tak­en to save en­er­gy – be­ing con­scious of these is a lib­er­at­ing and mad­den­ing ex­pe­ri­ence in and of itself. 

What this can do is al­low one to be ful­ly aware of their every ac­tion and in­tend­ed re­ac­tions. Be­ing so aware, one can over­an­a­lyze each word, each non­ver­bal process, every eye move­ment, it be­comes mad­den­ing be­cause it is. 

I be­lieve the great­est minds all ex­ist in mad­ness of some form or an­oth­er. The sane mind is un­chang­ing, bor­ing, not in­ter­est­ed in al­ter­ing the world around it. The in­sane mind is con­stant­ly look­ing for so­lu­tions in are­nas that oth­ers wouldn’t typ­i­cal­ly con­sid­er. And is will­ing to take risks no sane mind would.

So what I am try­ing to get across is quite sim­ple: Be in­sane with your New Years res­o­lu­tion. Live in the mad­ness of a mind seek­ing to change the world for the bet­ter, an­a­lyze every ac­tion you take and see how life be­comes slight­ly more predictable. 

Be­come the walk­ing meat suit pi­lot­ed by the de­ranged grey mat­ter that tru­ly seeks to bet­ter the world!

That’s a New Years res­o­lu­tion worth keeping.

—lo­gan shepard

Flom­mist Lo­gan Shep­ard is a philoso­pher at heart, an artist in spir­it, and a dic­ta­tor in thought. You can think of him like a mod­ern Dio­genes sans the whole be­ing home­less thing. Copy­right © 2016 Lo­gan Shepard.

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