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Today I understood how this fourth line mystery works in a way that I never thought of before. It’s a simple as:
The investigator is curious, pondering something, so it goes straight to the market into the crowds of people that each has different perspectives, filters and experiences -let’s call that the network- to hunt for or gather the information it need.
The market is not as such a place a shores person likes to be, in the middle of the buzz, but the curiosity drove it there as the most logic source to collect data from (in this case for understanding how passive a passive body actually is versus an active body.) The shores person would rather like to find a bench on the edge of the market to just observe the movement and behaviors of people.
And this is where I see another driving force: I have gate ten three times in my design. I have always loved to just sit and observe people, watch their behaviors and patterns, as to understand what ‘people’ actually are. This is another mystery to me, but perhaps they’re all connected? Thank god this is all mechanics, now I have a language to place on a whole life of observations, and thank god we have this wonder of the internet so I no longer need to physically move to the market and sit in the mess of the middle of it, soaking up everything, auras including. Now I can go information hunting without being exhausted from the effort of it. And it get served in a clean way, no frequencies transmitted along the text as I read it from my state, without going out searching for it.
All one has to do is ask a question. And close the screen when a little break is needed without finding an available bench.
The network is like having all these sort of different fields (or market spaces) one can attend to. ‘This is for carrots, this is for kale, this is for raspberries and this is for the most delicious dandelions’ (yes, they’re eatable too!). Knowing which field or market square to go to makes collecting data so easy and fun.
In this sense it hit me how my understanding of people seems to be more of a ‘material’ and perhaps always has been, for understanding observations or something in practice. More material at least than ‘the human beings are necessary physical relations all people need’. I always hear people describing the fourth line as something I can’t relate to at all - which is why it’s still a mystery to me, and I can imagine this probably sounds terrible, saying people is a material, so sorry, not sorry, it’s in an informational sense.
(but then there is the part about having The Listener as my design sun. People can be quite a job. Or so it feels like to me. People do stop me on the street or in the shop, places that is already difficult to be in, to tell me the most odd things, and I don’t really get to choose if I want to hear it or not. Nor do I know how to get myself out of those sort of trapped situations so, sorry but not sorry.
Any fourth lines out there who have a take on people?
