Absurd but Beautiful, Beautiful but Absurd
Here We Go Pt. 2
All organic forms of existence that one can find in nature have always come across to me as possessing some form of intelligence.
Having never paid attention to this thought loop further, and having never tried to understand it, I found it extremely easy to ignore nature for the majority of my childhood.
And, a childhood that consists of an immense amount of virtual reality, will inadvertently subjugate the child to be distant from nature.
I write with experience.
Having been addicted to so many different games, there was very little interest in anything the physical world had to offer.
I wasn’t bothered about the sunset, the beautiful bird, or the gigantic cloud which ideally makes your jaw drop.
The only thing that mattered, for a majority of my time, was how my character's life shaped up to be, in a game, on a screen.
One could say, being young and naïve, my ever-increasing devotion to the virtual world was a natural progression.
Once I was exposed to having complete autonomy over life via a game, it was only a matter of time before all of my attention drifted away from reality, in which I had far lesser control.
But then again, how am I supposed to assume that the assumed low degree of control I had over my reality was the cause of my over-indulgence? Could it be deeper than that? It may be, but that’s besides the point, if there is any.
By establishing this barrier between the rich organic world and my imaginary reality, I ended up living in a deluded fantasy.
I remember my grandmother bringing up the fact that she couldn’t have a proper conversation with me after I’d have played FIFA Manager 08 for four hours straight.
That is absurd in itself.
But for this article, I’m focussing on the world out there. And, how absurd that is.
Not the world in our books, photos, videos, or maps.
But rather, the organic world from where we stem.
We’ve become so detached from the organic world that we’ve never paid enough attention to the intricacies and innate intelligence that comprises nature.
This is probably because we have been conditioned to view the world through Euclidian Geometry in school. A geometry that deals with points, lines, planes, and their interactions to make complex two-dimensional figures.
By using Euclidian Geometry as a language to interpret and understand the organic world, we assume clouds to be spheres and perceive every natural element from this two-dimensional paradigm. We also assume there are straight lines in nature.
The coining of Fractal’s and the discovery of the Mandelbrot Set in 1980 changed this, by offering each of us the opportunity to gain new insights into the nature of nature.
And even though we’ve never been taught any of this, we now have the liberty to learn.
Mandelbrot developed a language to understand what is out there.
But it isn’t as simple as saying a cloud is a sphere. The infinite complexity of nature is unravelled by this one simple equation that is played on a loop, some would call it an algorithm.
Since all we experience is dictated by our knowledge of the world, by taking the time to understand his work, I allowed myself to discover a new perspective.
Personally, this new way of experiencing the world outside my four walls is immensely different compared to before, because I’m in a perpetual state of awe and amazement. In acknowledging the innate intelligence present in nature, I was left humbled.
We live in a world where a 300 ft. tree grows out of a seed the size of an acorn.
It is absurd.
It never makes a noise about its growth.
It just grows.
Using no language, thought, or therapy.
And yet, we think of trees as mere things.
We live in a world that has countless organic species, some of which have been here much before you and I. And, each of them has figured out their own way to survive, or thrive in their environment.
Do they do that by sheer luck?
Absolutely not.
Because there is an innate intelligence present in every organic form that is far beyond our capacity to comprehend.
But the saving grace is that Mandelbrot’s work offers a framework, a language of sorts, to grasp what lies out there, in a different way.
We live in a world where we degrade our eco-system with no regard to what chain reaction sets off.
We are ignorant about our organic world as we’re so isolated in these densely populated cities, living these disconnected lives under the illusion that we’re actually connected.
So it does make sense, why we do not understand and appreciate that we are a small part of something that is infinitely complex and infinitely intelligent.
And there is nothing greater than that.
This is heaven.
This is the lottery ticket winning prize.
This is the friggin’ jackpot.
And if you don’t believe me, all one has to do is read Mandelbrot’s work, and then venture out into nature.
You’ll get it then.
After reading the results his research produced, I’m left murmuring the same thing;
This world is Absurd.
But also, so Beautiful.
This world is Beautiful.
But also, so Absurd.
You can read his book, or watch his documentary on youtube. But either way, it is well worth your time and I highly recommend it, assuming my recommendation means anything to you.
Or you can just take the leap
And find what you reap.
Onto Part Three…
