There is this incredibly gravitic tendency… in humans… from the singular to the meta-collective… to continually find new ways… to do this thing.

Offload decision-making.

This includes ‘determining what something is’.

The ‘reason’ can be understood as evolutionary: to stop having to determine whether something one was able to distinguish from ‘the everything’ is either:

A: A threat.
B: An opportunity.
C: ( it doesn’t matter )

Now, if A or B are the result, one has to expend additional effort to describe and/or explain the situation, and thus ‘figure out’ (this language is important here) ‘what to do about it’. The problem is, that with many A or B situations, collapsing into a singular value is … confused. Partly because the vast majority of phenomenon do not exhibit such values intrinsically, however, superficial evaluations are sufficient to convinced those unaware of this… that they do.

Generally, narratives are employed to support the ‘decision’ for A or B. These are aftermarket ‘add-ons’ that allow the waking mind to justify both its grasp upon and credit-taking for whichever is selected and the narrative that accompanies this.

The purpose here is simple: decision-making is at least modestly stressful, and energetically demanding. It requires actually paying attention. This is a behavior we have a fundamental conflict with in that part of us wants to return to sleeping, dreaming, sex, eating, hunting, shopping… and so on. Another aspect wants to actually pay attention because it has become identified with the subjects to which it is paying attention. And these require intense focus and emotional identification with.

So, in order to get rid of the constant need to threat-or-opportunity-detect…

We are trained to derive (and signal about) little A or B opinions. These result from a more fundamental training. actually mostly »invented A or B by a specific cascade of ‘distinction events’ that lead from (the universe) to (something I distinguish with category, class and instance of class). We determine ‘what’ something ‘is’, consciously, and largely intentionally.

And then, we can either engage, ignore, or assert identity.

After which, if we are … ‘lucky’… we can return to… previously scheduled (behavioral) programs, however crippling or empowering they may be (or become).