thinking

i've sat here staring at the glowy screen trying to come up with some coherent commentary about this, with the intent to send you over to read Ezrael's post. couldn't come up with any, so i borrowed some of his:

The identity of anything is a mosaic of associations, pasted together over the course of its existence, carrying charges of conceptual energy that can come together in a dizzying blizzard of forms. Any attempt to understand that does not take the potential of this multiplicity of orbiting thought into account is doomed to failure.

it's something i am going to keep in mind when i'm flinging myself argumentatively (is that a word?) to one end of some spectrum or another.