2020 comes close to being annus horribilis.
There is much I wish I had not seen or heard or smelled or learnt. But to unsee or unhear or unlearn or unremember or unknow are not permitted, by reality or by language.
- There is much more unseen than seen.
- But what has been seen cannot be unseen.
- To unsee is not an action permitted by reality or by language.
- What has been seen may not be remembered.
- What is remembered is only a decaying image of what was seen.
- What is remembered may be forgotten but cannot be erased selectively or voluntarily
- To unremember is not an action in reality or in language.
- What is known is a tiny part of what is knowable.
- The size of the unknowable is unknowable.
- To learn is to convert some of what is unknown (but knowable) to be known.
- To convert knowledge to ignorance by unknowing is unreal.
- Forgetting is real and ignorance is common, but how to unknow is unknown.
- To unlearn is not an action permitted by reality or language.
- To not hear many things is normal and to forget what has been heard is common.
- But to unhear what has been heard is not permitted.
Doing is a temporal activity. Undoing in time is fundamentally impossible.
What the brain receives as sensory input cannot be undone.
To forget is human but to undo is divine.
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