Coherence and Incoherence

Widening my Scope

Those of you who have attempted to be my regular readers may have run into a certain issue: I do not post to this site regularly. I find the cause to be likely that I hold myself to posting things of a certain quality. Not that I hold myself to a certain standard of excellence or require that my articles be up to some standard, but rather that I have, unconsciously or consciously, tried to invoke a certain quality in them. In a way, I've restricted them to a particular type of content. Those posts qualified as "articles" are, in essence, essays. And those posts under "poems" are that which I consider poetical, in a more pure sense than perhaps I should have imposed.

My will calls me to create. And as an avenue for creation, these divisions are limiting. Limiting in that they do not encompass all of my textual output. The union does not make the whole. Not that I must post all I create, indeed, there are many secret writings reserve for myself, secrets that hold close and will guard fastidiously, if only for the sake of guarding secrets.¹ Regardless, I do not want categories that I have imposed to delineate and demarcate the bounds of my creativity.

There are two solutions that present themselves immediately. The first, is to simply add additional categories of posts. To create more areas in which to play. However, more sandboxes in which to shovel still will not necessarily take up the whole of the yard. And I would like to avoid a great proliferation of categories. The second is to remove all post categorization. One category of everything will certain make the whole and limit me in no way I know, but I think it an imperfect solution. For one, the categories do in some way "make sense" to me. They reflect two different styles of my writing, and to delineate them feels elucidative. And further, I chose them and thus they reflect my historical cognition, and I do not want to be disingenuous to me.

The only conclusion, then, is to keep the categories. But they must be widened. This widening must satisfy four constraints: one, that the union makes the whole; two, that the intersection is empty; and three, that the contain within them the original categories; and four, that the expansion be an pertinent to the original categories. The categories I will use are Syntheses and Prophecies. Syntheses in the sense that the category is constrained that which attempts to take what I know or think and to synthesize that into something other. Here, there a requirement of coherence, even if to you, dear reader, do not always see it. And prophecies in the sense that I profess the work; it comes out of me. There is no requirement for coherence, as it comes from a me other that the synthetic me.

Now, to prove that these fit the constraints.

One) That these categories make the whole is clear when we consider them as coherence and incoherence. All that which I synthesize I attempt to make coherent, and whenever I disregard coherence I do not attempt to synthesize. An objection may be a purely descriptive work, as this does not appear to synthesize nor is it a prophecy as it comes from without. However, description is an attempt at coherence. Whenever a description is presented, a model for that which is being described is presented, and that model is an attempt at a synthesis of empirical experience of prior knowledge to form an understanding.

Two) This also follows from coherence and incoherence. Understand that the coherence and incoherence is mine, and mine at a particular point in time. It does not matter if anyone else finds it coherent or finds it incoherent, or if what was once coherent to me ceases to be so. At the moment of creation, I synthesize coherently or prophesize incoherently, there is no alternative and I cannot do both.²

Three) I shall not enumerate all my works. But it should suffice to say that my articles are essays that attempt to make some point, i.e. they attempt to synthesize, while the poems I have posted have been constrained to those that have spilled impetuously out from my psyche, i.e. those from prophecy.

Four) As for pertinence, in words it is hard to convey, as these categories are the result of a dream I had last night for something to write that did not fit into either the category of "Articles" or "Poems", but I wished to post. The dream then went on to reorganize the categories along lines similar to those I present here (I have edited the dream content for coherence). I wished to keep the categorization, in part, to appeal to my historical self, and the pertinence of these new categories can be thought of as an appeal to my dream self.

As for that something to write I dreamt of, it is all but entirely lost. But, I hope, dear reader, to see you again soon.