On Stepping Outside the Human Narrative

Living on the Threshold

Here’s another video post. This time it’s me as a poet. Well, a sort of poet-philosopher, (and video maker).

Logontology is the kind of philosophy that you have to live. It’s the kind of philosophy that should lead you to place like the Lake District, and force you to realise that you’re alive and that you don’t need to be told that you’re alive.

We’re also a story. A polyphonic story. There’s a library inside every human life - inherited before we can read, added to constantly, and, I would like to controversially add, composed of the same book rewritten. The human narrative recycles itself with every generation. We swim in it without noticing. We’re desperately seeking balance in a system that cannot provide it.

My latest video gets nitty-gritty. It’s about a camping trip in the Lake District, about going outside with a notebook, and about the difference between becoming a footnote on life’s biography, and becoming the soil of your own life.

The video ends with a poem I wrote that weekend. I hope it leaves you, even briefly, at the threshold.

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