Art: What is it? (part 1)

Before we begin, I’d like to lay a little ground work. This series of articles is not about the word “Art.” It is about something in the universe for which, I think, it is suitable to use the word “Art” as a name. This is an important distinction. It is possible to have conversations about words, and they can be very interesting and beneficial. But, when we are using words to their purpose, we are trying to look past them in that we are looking at something else through the use of them. This means that the definitions I give of “Art” here may not be the only suitable ones, but I intend them to be useful ones, because I intend them to point out and describe things out there in the universe.

Absurdity

Last week, I said we’d discuss why people are attracted to absurdity, and what the good of it could be. I also mentioned that lack of practice at making sense can lead to things appearing to make less and less of it, which is directly related to the first reason for liking absurdity that we are going to discuss (the dark and sinister reason).

Time-Travel and Freedom

Mankind is in a remarkable position. We live in a universe of physical and metaphysical laws, a place of harmonious arrangements of multitudes of diverse creatures. But, the remarkable thing I mean is that we humans take a look around and say: “Well, this is certainly a harmonious arrangement of multitudes of diverse creatures we have here,” like we’d just arrived, and it was new and different.

Sometimes people will comment on the fact that baby animals can walk almost immediately, whereas human children take almost a year to figure it out. I don’t think this is a sign of human weakness. I think the baby is approaching gravity on more equal terms than the foal. The foal walks because that’s how it is. The baby, however, requires time to consider this new and interesting proposal. And the same goes for time.

Wait! if I figure a way out of this,
I could just come back and tell myself what to do.
But I haven't, so I must not figure it out! 
No, I just haven't gone forward and come back yet. Wait...

Time-travel (a literary