This is another post that exists to convince myself of something and solidify my own arguments. At least, it’s as much that as something I want to put out into the world; maybe it’ll be useful! I’m usually very hesitant to write anything if I suspect that someone else already covered the idea to some greater or lesser extent. I’d like to get over that.

I do have a couple notes about the execution of the post itself:

The last sentence in the second-to-last paragraph is so clunky as to almost be nonsensical. I had intended to write “I’m arguing both you and myself into the idea” but what came out of my fingers is what you see up there. I’m not about to waste another piece of paper to re-write the whole thing and avoid one awful sentence. Another small mistake to live with, this is the way of things.

I also typed a few letters in a burst of speed that the machine couldn’t keep up with so well – it’s really evident in “consciously” and “material.” I want to call attention to that because it’s a clue as to how fast one can actually type on a typewriter that works well. That said, if I was better at operating these things, that kind of error wouldn’t happen – I just got ahead of myself and treated it like a computer keyboard, briefly.

Whoops!