Month: July 2025| radicaluncertaintydotcom
A life that travels towards a goal is a narrow life – there is nothing but ‘the goal’ (and ‘how to get there’) in such a life and the goal is a very narrow thing. A goal isn’t actually anything – it belongs to the world of abstractions and abstractions are – as we might […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
There is something inherently problematic about purposeful behaviour - we just can't see it, that's all. As far as we're concerned, it's the other way around - as far as we're concerned purposeful behaviour is how we solve problems. If purposeful behaviour is the solution, then how can it also…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Chaos goes deeper than order - the two are NOT a straightforward pair of complementary opposites, as we always tend to think. Instead of chaos we could talk about randomness - a random number is one that doesn't fit into any regular pattern, one that can't in any way be…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
We always think we have perspective on our situation but - as a rule - we don't! When we think we have perspective (which is most of the time) we don't; when - on the other hand - we see that we are lacking in perspective, then this perception is…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
The basic unit of polarity is akin to a sort of chemical polymer that can be cheaply manufactured in order to produce artificial worlds in industrial quantities. The process of polymerisation is where we start off with a single generic unit that can be readily conjoined in order to make products on an industrial scale; […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
We can’t control without assuming a context and the context we assume is never going to be true – it’s only ever going to be propositional in nature, it’s only ever going to be ‘a convention that we adopt purely for practical purposes’. In order to be able to control we have to simplify reality […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Rational therapy equals the ‘avoidance of risk’, the ‘avoidance of uncertainty’. RT involves the creation of a positive reality, in other words. We never hear anyone actually say this, but that's because the positive (or 'stated') reality is all we know, all we are able to acknowledge. If we ever…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Purposeful doing is the repetition of a bias, the reiteration of ingrained prejudice. We get a good feeling from engaging in goal-orientated behaviour because it’s purposeful, because it’s progressive and constructive in nature, because it’s ‘meaningful’ rather than being ‘aimless’ or ‘merely random’, and yet all we’re really doing with our purposeful doing is that […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
When we are not equal to the image of us, the description of us, the idea of us, then we are free. This is our true nature – our true nature is to not fit in the category that has been allocated for us to fit in. Our true nature – our only nature – […]| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Everything that takes place within ‘the Domain of All Possible Mechanical Actions’ (which is also ‘the Domain of All Possible Defined States’) also takes place in reverse – it has to 'also take place in reverse' so as to ensure that the account books always remain perfectly balanced. Anything at…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
Every time we specify an outcome and try to achieve it we straightaway get swallowed up in a tautological loop of logic. Even before we know what this means it sounds bad, and the more we find out about it the worse it gets! Being swallowed up in a tautological…| radicaluncertaintydotcom
