If you want to do some real thinking about Notes, try thinking about your lack of real thinking about everything.

Nicolai Hartman, the German Ontologist, recommended that the Everything, the totality of all existence, can and should be broken down into ontological regions.  Do you agree with this idea?  Do you in fact have any idea at all about such ideas?

This note is about the area of psychological activity in yourself that characterizes your unreal, secondary, dull and emotional, socially conditioned self that constantly worries about the state of the world without a comprehensive definition of the thing you call “World”.  This implies that you actually worry about your assumptions about the “World”.  Are you getting ready to question those assumptions?  We do not see you doing much of such questioning, do we?

This note is about the familiar solidity and seeming realism of the immediate environment where you are pondering this Note. The realism of the immediate environment is always there until you die, after which it does not hold up for you any longer and forces you to wander in the Bardos, the in-between realms, in a state of deprivation, anguish and madness.  Without permanence of everyday so-called “reality”, you do have an Ontological Problem, do you not?  Or, you have at least what Gabriel Marcell, the French Existentialist, called an Ontological Mystery.  Of course, the Buddhists have been meditating on a connection between impermanence and illusions-about-reality for thousands of years.  But you are obviously neither a Buddhist, an Existentialist nor an Ontologist, so you can just fuck around with Notes in your stupid little everyday familiar world at your fucking convenience with that horribly blank look on your stupid face.  How can you stand being like that?  But never mind!  If the shoe…

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