weave - To introduce (another element) into a complex whole; work in

reave - To break or tear apart

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I more often than not exhort people to think before reacting. In my attempts to follow my own advice, I have been posting less and less lately as I try to process all the information and make the connections that incorporate new data into the complex whole that we must understand if we are to find a path to continued success of our culture.

Yet with each additional data point the proof of complexity increases and more thought is needed to work through the ramifications.

It is far easier to throw rocks at those who don’t agree than it is to truly understand and try to construct something that can make a positive change.

Hence the current state of blogworld…

Weaving is more difficult than reaving, so which is chosen more often?

A brief look at world history of any region and any era provides an immediate answer to that question.

I see connections between the themes in the writings of Shakespeare and Poe intertwined with the furor over the Dubai/US ports deal, the incident of Cheney shooting of a friend while hunting, warrantless wiretapping of American citizens by the NSA as authorized by President George W. Bush, the aborted spiral into a true and widespread civil war in Iraq after the deliberate provocation of destroying a mosque dedicated by one particular sect, the paralysis in the early days of the destruction wrought by Katrina along with the eerily similar paralysis in the early days of the Iraq insurgency, and the recent increase in rebellious activity in Afghanistan, just to name a few threads in the weave that forms a tapestry that needs a Shakespeare or a Poe to properly describe.

I am neither, so I am left with my own meager, underdeveloped talents of expression.

Perhaps my finishing that novel I have had in progress for well over 15 years now would be a better means of explication than this weblog, for all the themes I have attemted to weave in here at Random Fate were embedded in the novel outline I sketched out in the late 1980s.

Essentials don’t change, just the disguises they wear that fool those who are too lazy to dig beneath the surface, the superficial.

Why else would the writings of Shakespeare and Poe still resonate through the decades and centuries?

As I said, I have the talents of neither, so I will have to struggle through to the best of my abilities.

So, hopefully soon, I will complete a monsterly long post that will bore most who won’t bother to finish reading it, infuriate some who will add comments without thinking through the themes and ideas, and prompt truly critical and evaluative thought in the few who are willing to extricate themselves from their comfortable, canalized thinking.

Even after all of that effort, which pays nothing, not even personal satisfaction because of my perception of the inadequacy of my writing, I will still have incompletely comprehended, much less expressed, the complexity that we must understand.