In two minds

We live in two minds
with opposing forces
A part of and apart from natural landscapes
Striving for resolution
In trying to make up our minds
we give the impression of wanting both ways
Perpetuating a state of being in two minds
by deliberating over the negative consequences of one or both actions
Divisions from demands of life and work drive us to seek oblivion in sleep
In the day,
Language gives us fading order
Managing incongruencies
For sake of sociality, we pretend there is less ambiguity in our words.
Is there a pure experience which doesn’t need language?
Which neither objectifies nor animates?
Why do we still entrust culture to give us more order than nature
when it is such binaries that lead to disengagement
and to missing a raw communal experience,
free from preconceived notions and frames,
not bound to any measured distance between us.

Based on a lecture by M. Jackson and ensuing discussion “Unhinged Signs, Cracked Walls and the Rage for Order”, Dept. of Anthropology, Princeton.