May 26th, 2009
But You’re Not
There is always another way out. Your same imagination that has you in its trap can have you anywhere else. Have you ever known someone who came to the brink, believed in the trap, then found a way free?
Transcriptorial: you always thought you were trapped / but you're not
Gilles Deleuze has a similar theory called “lines of flight.” He states that, “Lines of flight are everywhere. They constitute the available means of escape from the forces of repression and stratification. Even the most intense strata are riddled with lines of flight.”
Basically, escape is always a mere thought away.
That’s a compelling theory. It makes sense intuitively, too. I guess with these things, it is always easier in theory than to see the lines of flight from where one is. But perhaps there are people who could find their way out if only they knew to look, and to look in different ways.
The trap may be a allusion depicted from the mind to feel pressure that there is a trap.
In fact, many people, I think, trap themselves, and if it weren’t one trap, they would find another.
never mind all the traps.
sometimes you need to pass by them to make the hunter accustomed to you traipsing around their traps.
makes it more confusing when and where you’ll make the final jump.
sometimes traps set to shackle you tend to shackle the minds of the hunters instead. they get so confident about the traps they’ve set they tend to forget all creatures have the natural tendency to survive.
Our tools do set expectations we tend to live in. Something I like about things that don’t work very well is that they don’t allow complacency.
There’s the one about the scientists who put a gorilla in a confinement with four exits.
The gorilla found a fifth way out.
Hence the term ‘fifth-exit gorilla’ for anyone who thinks outside the box.
Neat. I hadn’t heard that term!