Arbitrariness must be embraced—or else.
I think Pascal was right when he wrote that the human was a “monstre comprehensible.”
The inner-voice (externalized as text) seems to start leaping ahead after Shakespeare and Montaigne. Something happened around the year 1590—something maybe akin to what’s happening with AI now.
Without a cosmic order, without Gods, or God, there is just Me. (Modernity)
Without me, there is just the System. (Postmodernism).
Without the System, there is ______. ( ______________).
As more information pours into the world every second, its value diminishes. Meanwhile, the vale of synthesis, of idea-production, coinage, rises.