There is a positional horizon implicit in every experience. This used to be referred to as its condition of possibility, but that term treats it as if it were external, or something only to wondered about afterwards, in looking back on the experience. Instead it is integral to the experiencing as if it defined, or rather initially posited, the screen and the observer without which there could be no experience at all. And so, as it is it contains the existential depth of the experience, its shocking contrast to absolute nothingness, but it does not feel as if it does so. Most of the time experience feels ordinary and natural and as if the most obvious and unquestionable thing were its simple right to presence now. So it is as though an algebraic abstraction born out of habit has filled the place where the sense of this depth ought to be. Everything in your culture conspires to reassure you in regard to the promise contained in this abstraction - at some deferred moment it can be exchanged for its full value, and so you you can trade on it with a clear conscience. This substitution marks the place of the so-called 'I'-thought, as a currency for ongoing participation in the traffics of desire and knowledge. You shouldn't have to do anything about this beyond the gentle request that it deliver on its promise.
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