‘Love’, Saturday Night Magazine, February 1967
Speedup of information-movement has the effect of putting the whole human Unconscious outside us as an environment — and thereby creating what appears in every way to be a crazy world. The Unconscious is a world where everything happens at once, without any connections, without any reasons at all. We’re making the outside world just as crazy and mixed-up as our own Unconscious has always been. The Unconscious includes all the experience of the human race.

Great thinkers from Plato to Heidegger have attempted to understand why they have not been understood — in an attempt to make themselves understood.

The blockages occur in these ways:

The enormous range of possibility of human experience entails that communication is never to some tabula rasa awaiting in-formation. Instead, all experience is always already informed from out of that range. As described millennia ago in Plato’s allegory of the cave, the attempt at radical communication must awaken some new possibility of reception. But such a leap from already actualized and tested possibility to unrealized and untested possibility is exactly what informed experience prevents at all cost. The very suggestion necessarily seems “crazy”.

Communication can be attempted only to already informed experience. But — as just described — it cannot occur as linear cause and effect. It is therefore possible only when it has already occurred. Communication presupposes a ‘knot in time’ where the desired future transformation is a past achievement, “where everything [like future and past] happens at once”. This, too, is “crazy”.

The range of basic possibilities is necessarily “without any connections, without any reasons at all”. There is nothing basic between bases, no possibility between possibilities. The suggestion that such abysmal gaps might be transitive, might be bridges to the possibility of a new sensibility of truth (double genitive), is the most “crazy” thing of all.

But these transitive gaps are the medium (between possibilities) that is (issues in) the message.

These blockages are the topic of all authentic thought.