Solving problems is easy when there is clarity.

It’s absence of clarity which constitutes the real difficulty when solving problems.

 

Bad formulation of a problem is a problem in itself.

We make syntactical, formal logical errors in the way we approach a matter. The solutions will not make any sense because the problem itself does not make any sense.

 

Absence of clarity is the problem which precedes all problems – and renders them immaterial – immaterial until clarity is attained.

 

Solving problems without clarity is akin to finding a way home with one’s eyes closed.

 

Most problems are immaterial. Most problems are no problems at all. Most problems are just inconsistencies and errors of the system which produced them.

 

System in which you operate is basically your conditioning.

All the nonsense which society taught you is obviously unlikely to be consistent or meaningful.

People live and die grappling with the problems which were never their own in the first place, which were never truly relevant, not in the grand scheme of things.

 

Instead of probing into the deep problem of happiness — we busy ourselves with the wordly success.

Instead of probing into the deep problem of what is right — we busy ourselves with codes and morals.

Instead of probing into the deep problem of what is real — we busy ourselves with ideation and theories and philosophies.

Instead of looking at the problem as it is, as it arises — we search for some platitudinous token… never to deal with the thing directly, always to fell back on some comfortable doctrine.

 

Blind spots will persist until you actually see.

 

To be serious one must be consistent and precise. One must be intelligent. One must look clearly.

The problem must be consistently formulated. If it’s inconsistent — throw it away! Better to be ignorant and aware of one’s ignorance — then it is to be ignorant and DELUSIONAL.

 

Why is it that some problems are more baffling then other?

When you see something as a whole — is it difficult to perceive it? Is it difficult to understand it? To grasp it? When you look at a tree — is it difficult to perceive it, to see the branches and the entire structure and the roots and the leafs… ?

 

Unless you can perceive the problem — you can’t understand it and you obviously CAN’T solve it.

This vital intellectual rigour is merely SERIOUSNESS in approaching the problems. Skipping the nonsense and focusing on the REAL.

 

If your common sense doesn’t tell you that a problem is nonsense (politics, career, self-growth, knowledge, magical-transformations, social justice, history, ANY long term plan…) then at least know it to be VOID because of it’s inconsistency, abstraction, intangibility, fragility (philosophy, religion, code, law, ‘truth’, morality, memory).

It’s futile to even look at these problems.

Please face the problems of existence.

Please face day-to-day problems.

Without naming without judging without creating a fucking doctrine.

Just looking at them directly.