[Wanna, Jamie XX]
What of freedom?
According to this Existentialism primer, “Freedom, in the eyes of the Existentialists, is what truly makes us human. However, with it comes an intense weight of responsibility. Both freedom and responsibility are inescapable facts of life. We often wish to turn our backs on this truth, to deny our freedom.” From this article I learned about the Sapir-Worph hypothesis (the language that you use determines how you conceive reality). Habits of recent time, as I write this, come very much to the forefront.
Each morning, I would take a walk around Avenida Amsterdam (of course, massive serendipity there considering my love of Amsterdam the city) which surrounds Parque México– coffee in hand from Qūentin Café– spending an hour walking in a circle getting lost in the details of the doors (and garages). I developed a bit of an obsession from this point onward regarding the portals of Mexico City- realizing so little of how much this trip would turbo boost a series of changes already stirring, as if many doors opening and closing in parallel and sequence. I write of opening and closings but these are all one in the same portals. The truth is ours and always has been- even when we try to escape it we must accept the responsibility (and consequence) of our decisions. That may sound a bit dire, but it is in fact liberating and enlightening.
We are what we decide.
The principle is a simple one. Instead of asking what return a given activity will produce, the question is what it costs in terms of pure life:
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.“
~ Thoreau’s new economics, from The Philosophy of Walking, by Frédéric Gros
(p.s. on this trip, I also achieved a goal to go to a MUTEK event – I discovered MUTEK through the music over a decade ago and the music indeed was killer- Kat Davids being the treasure.)
Doors
Garages
ofallthespaces 