Choice and Triviality

 

Where there is choice there is also triviality and arbitrariness. This is exactly the quality of the conditions of a formal system – there is no need for there to be any particular set of symbols. It occurs to me today as I continue to query sexuality that the very problem with “girls” is that there are so many. I saw at least 5 this morning that I would happily try things out with. “My Muse” is special, amongst other reasons, because she was a test of the notion of “true” love. It is important that I gave everything recklessly and with carefree abandon and acceptance of any future because I had to believe that she was “The One” and this entails that “what will be, will be”. Had I engineered even 1 spec of that structure, the whole thing would have become inauthentic and arbitrary. Had I ever “chosen” her then I could un-chose her, and I could chose any girl. Suddenly it all becomes arbitrary. This is what I fear about marriage realising that all those rules and vows are entirely arbitrary and have no foundation at all. We make the whole thing up.

But this is the truth isn’t it. We make all of existence up and then we forget we did it and become prisoners inside our own creation. We made marriage, if we neglect it then it disappears. The dream of “True Love” is an attempt to weave some necessary, essential quality into marriage to make is necessary and solid in some way. A security for those who become weak in their creation.

So to I see (and this was the main point here) does this reflect on the Free Market. We celebrate choice. But this freedom means arbitrariness and non-necessity. If the Left Wing have one argument with the Right it is over this feature of necessity. There are some things that are necessary, that we don’t chose. These therefore do not belong in the free market. This is where Capitalism as a paradigm has its limits… at the limits of choice. That which we don’t chose can’t be funded by private capital. That seems to be the rule. The problem is exactly what is necessary. I’ve recently argued here that there is no limit. We can (and do in time of war) chose death. So maybe we can extend the free-market to everything and realise our the trivial choice in create everything.