The Idea: Meaning And Mastery Poem by Nathan Coppedge

1.

I decided to focus on spareness, at the compromise of all superfluous elegance.

The new theory was a puzzle as magnificent as the proverbs of the ages.

A ‘tirade' in a high sense of the word.

A ‘devotion' to two concepts: one dark and the other light.

An indulgence beyond the ordinary meaning of THINGS.

A direction which lies on a higher level of logic than objectivity.

A degree beyond truths, subject to only the most lucient mysteries.

Something natural formed of civilization.

A Finite Nature not subject to mathematics.

A problem which was not problematic.

Something not whimsical or contrived, but meaningful beyond the rhyme of sensibility.

It began with a single sentence, that:

Meaning in a positive view, is the opposite of mastery.



2.

There are other concepts which are similarly opposed.

For example, there is the concept of ambiguity and arbitration.

Perhaps it is this type of distinction which best expresses the virtue of the theory.

Ideas that are extremely different, and yet hold independent truth.

Truths, that when combined with other opposites, yield actual meaning.

Truths like the distinction between formalism and What?

Between the soul and What?

Between irrationality and What?

Ideas that grow from beauty and circumstance- -!

Ideas of mind and nature.

Ideas of the fundamental Program of existence.

Fundamental natures which are, given certain assumptions, alone sufficient.

Ideas which guarantee value.

Ideas which guarantee input into the Computer of reality.

Fine ideas, developed from the finest culture of information.

Atomical facts perhaps.

The kind of complexity that Bertrand Russell hints at,

In his "Lecture on Atomical Facts."

Circumstances of nature, almost deranged from problematics.

At the same time, ideas which are dual with problems,

The problems being ideal, and the circumstances being ordinary.

Exceptional extensions of the most complex reality.

Aesthetical logic, metaphysical semantics, physical narrative.

Something dimensional, and yet proverbial.

An event beyond the horizon of all problematic events.

An eclipse of the ordinary held to an absurd standard.

The standard of rationality. The standard of archetypes.

The standard of relations and technology.

An ideal state of nature set to the standard of ordinary aesthetics.

The ideal within the real.

The ideal of an absurd standard.

The abstract realism.

The metaphysical idealism that Kant speaks of.

Something mysteriously sufficient, and yet ersatz.



The by-product of numerous problems, refined into a convention.

Refined past ideas, into something chimerical, and yet musical.

Something mad, and yet un-contradictory.

Something testing the idea that problems are real.

Something not expressly pleasurable or painful.

Something that is not a game or a value system.

Not entirely past or future.

Not entirely created or constructed.

A product of the unseen.

Written in archaic rules.

Rules that would seem modern.

Rules that remind us of a deep labyrinth.

Or perhaps the loading screen of a computer.

Something that puts the viewer on a pedestal.

Beckoning one into a realm of trivial politics.

Yet written in the most obvious symbols.

A plain, lucid language.

Something that requires one guess about every aspect.

But not zero.

Something coherent and relevant to everyday choices.

Not something totally selective.

Not something shoddy or forgettable.

A real notion, a schematic.

A kind of skyline of realization.

A maximum-retention polemic.

A hidden dialogue.

A calculus of opportunities.

An egress upon the most beautiful patterns.

A distraction from things that never come to pass.

A historical machine.

A possible optioning program.

An intricate level indicator.

A prodigy advocate. A lemon-squeezer.

An idea without an obvious format.

A set of agendas tailored to illustrations.

The fervent pretension of a little-known god.

A menu showing metaphysical information.

A small computer labeled with your name.

A citizenship card with many deserving credentials.

The epistle to a theory which would bring raptures.

The border of a game without limitations.

The infinite container.

The finite logic of meaning.

The corridor of all progress.

The instance of permanence.

The picture of creation.

The mirror of consciousness.

The fountain of prosperity.

The witness of beauty.

The fortune of madness.