296 — This week on Cargo

[Open in browser]( cargo.site [Sep tem ber 26 ’23]() What is deeply appealing is often felt as true. But of course this hardly makes it true. One can’t be too harsh about this though, as thinking this way occurs as naturally as wind ripples on a sand dune. We would just say that it matters, at the very least, for one to be aware of such a process occurring in oneself. And then, to act accordingly — which would likely be something like compassion or at least consideration for the notion that what is deeply appealing is often felt as true, but couldn’t be. Sites in Use [Fernanda Fragateiro]( To every mental and tactile object a human brings a legion of hindrances — perpetually preferring, always making assumptions, or treating highly personal idiosyncrasies as generalities. So called “abstract art” or “non-objective art” or “non-representational art” or at times even “minimal art” (all equally not-quite-right) are not simpler than other types of art. But rather, for us, are methods that get one more quickly (and plainly) to the complicated essence of these human limitations of perception and cognition. Portuguese artist [Fernanda Fragateiro]() is a master of creating situations where this cognitive knotty-ness is brought to a crux. At any given moment Fragateiro engages with attributes that foreground the shortcomings of our logic, employing all manner of: reflections, monochromes, intrinsic colors, latent colors, readymade materials, shadows, concealment, novelty, rhythm, disorder, singularity, illusion, blurriness, crispness, removal/erasure, false space, real space, flatness, false flatness, surfaces generally... This work is highly useful — in the deepest sense. 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To submit your own question, send an email to oracle@cargo.site [Ten of Wands (reversed)]( [45. Gathering Together [Massing]]( [16. Enthusiasm]( These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.) - A burden has become critical — seek to dissipate or share your load. - Overabundance causes diminished rewards and thus distraction. - Large groups create great change and/or great damage — much of the latter can be prevented by being cautious ahead of time. - Participate in safeguarding a public situation from becoming riotous enmity. - Enthusiasm is necessary to get things done; be aware though that it is not usually critically or intellectually motivated, but through an involuntarily appealing abstract influence. * * * From “M.S.”: In light of the discussion of abstraction and reduction in the “Sites in Use” text above — does trying to reduce a problem down to a more essential state, to better understand it, work? (Like trying to take a problem from out of the weeds and into a more reduced parent function.) Or does breaking a problem down into its elemental parts, and brushing them off, change the essential nature of the problem — like now you just have a new separate problem? The world won’t reveal its significance or insignificance, no matter how a scientist or a guru or a theorist or yourself confidently, or cajolingly, tries to describe it. The world both inner and outer is simply there. For us, this situation is experienced as a kind of awe in the face of this neutral there-ness. This feeling could be called our spirituality, or our metaphysical outlook (though both those terms leave a mild distaste in our mouth). To be sure, the manner in which this awe of neutral there-ness visits us is not entirely stable; our inner life, like everyone else, is perched on the multi-point teeter-totter of emotional structure. So, since the world isn’t themed in a way that makes it easy to break down anything, it seems a problem must be shared for any headway to be made. You must be in dialogue with others. * * * Complete Reading This week we pulled the 10 of Wands (reversed). A burden has become critical. It is important that you share or dissipate your accumulation (whether physical or psychological). Too much is too much. An overabundance causes diminished rewards and thus distraction. Too many negative unproductive thoughts will cause a breakdown. Our first hexagram this week is #45, Gathering Together (Massing). Here we have a discussion of the power of large groups of people gathering together; it is explained as a double edged sword. Great groups can achieve great things — but if a large group of people turn violent, massive damages can result. “Only collective moral force can unite the world.” “Similarly where people gather together in great numbers, strife is likely to arise; where possessions are collected, robbery is likely to occur. Thus in the time of gathering together we must arm promptly to ward off the unexpected. Human woes usually come as a result of unexpected events against which we are not forearmed. If we are prepared, they can be prevented.” So, we should push for large groups of people to work together, as to achieve nutritive, large-scale changes, but we must safeguard the situation against riotous enmity. There was one change this week, of which the specific notes are: To win over a portion of inherently fickle people, who, in any large endeavor, are just there because the situation is popular — one must be steadfast in their duty. Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes) is #16, Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm, the catalyzing element that inspires energy and motivation, is not a critical one. Here, song, rhythm and dance is used as an example. That is, enthusiasm/motivation tends to emanate from an abstract source like music — the way it sort of involuntary impacts one to move. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Home Â]() [Instagram Â]( [Unsubscribe](