Thoroughness of analysis affords freedom of synthesis.
The more finely articulated the understanding, the more pliable the response.
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The concrete mind which accepts the initial appearance as the sole vision, glances off the surface of possibilities.
The abstract mind knows how to disassemble not only the objective components of a thing, but also the subjective qualities of a thing that hold it together and make it what it is.
This dissolution of essence arouses the utmost anxiety, but if one can endure it, one is able to work with the maximum latitude to discover compelling, unprecedented and literally unimaginable possibilities. The anxiety is warranted. Objectivity can take an object apart into smaller parts, each itself an object.
When subjectivity takes subjects apart, one’s own subjectivity comes apart with it, which means one’s world destabilizes and dissolves, and one must take it on faith that new unity will happen.
At some time every child has taken apart a toy and been unable to reassemble it. What guarantee do we have that if we take ourselves apart that there will be a self left to self-reassemble?
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Notice the passive language around new unities.
Objectivity can stand at arm’s length and actively assemble systems. Subjectivity discovers unities in its experience. Subjective creation is not planning and building. Planning and building occur once subjectivity pulls the blueprint down from the ether and simply sees what can be. Only after the vision has been occurred may one plan and build back up into the sky. Cut straight to the planning as most of us do, the edifice will collapse into incoherence.
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Human beings are impatient and fearful by nature. We hate what envelops and involves and transcends us. We like what we can grasp in our hands and master and consume. The truth that we are mere organs of the world, participating in its life, moved by the world, yet moving in the world among the things of the world, as one of the things in the world, yet also as the world itself.
No, thanks: just give me the things. Give me a tree, a piece of fruit, a block of stone. Give me plans. Give me guarantees. Give me repetition of past success.
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Tell me where this ship is sailing and I’ll sail with you to unknown continents.
It required far more faith to discover America than to execute the plan to land on the moon. Scientific eyes have trouble seeing that fact.