Etcetera

We are all of us writing about identity. All of the time. In everything we write. When we report, speculate, criticise, create. Always identity. It is not a romantic observation. There is nothing grand about it. We are blessed and cursed with obsessive introspection. Everything cast outward is a tool to penetrate inward. Every journey inward is exposed, shared, in order to circumnavigate and return.

I have written so many strange things. All of it is identity. Commentary on games, discussions on culture, the mechanisms of behaviour, the mechanisms of digital interactions, the mechanisms of language. The evolution of all things.

The evolution of all things.

It is the most ordinary thing. That is not a remark to devalue nor inflate. It is a very simple, uncomplicated truth. Identity is ordinary, that is to say that when we discover something extraordinary, it is not actually an anomaly. It is nature. Perhaps mechanical.

Of late, I’ve noticed my perspective has become anti-romantic. I am yet to decide whether this correlates to a perception of value, but I’m not given to assume that at this point. I still romanticise. Writing about identity is romance, and appropriately so.

There comes a lengthy period when you aren’t looking for anything, waiting for anything. When loving is simple and appears to come with ease. Being loved seems easy. Complications come and go, and the emotional response to this location resembling contentment comes and goes. Sometimes it may be shared, often it is isolating. Once gained though, it’s never lost. That may mean the location was always present but unobserved or unrecognised, or it may be, as per evolution, a change that is not reversed.

The distinction is unimportant.

The evolution of all things.

Of language, writing, identity. All of this was said before, a fact that I can know without verification. We are patterns. Genetic patterns. At once non-romantic and romantic in the extreme. That is why we perceive and create so many abstract layers to add to our perception. It is incredibly appropriate, and incredibly rewarding.

That’s all for now.