Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
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Security is fundamentally about being able to hold and stay in the tension of uncertainty without compulsively resolving it or dispelling it.
As uncertainty and precarity become the new normal, so governmental regimes have shifted their focus from how to secure us to how to make us resilient. Security, and the longing for it, have become a kind of pathology. We are no longer to expect or seek certainty but rather to embrace and accept challenge and danger, a state of perpetual emergency…
Vincent Deary • How We Break
In our moment of radical uncertainty, watching resolution provides our craved reassurance. Second-hand closure relieves us.
ZINE • Creepy & Paranormal As Cultural Control
To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.
Alan Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
But it’s worse than a mere contradiction– because what we are really doing when we attempt to achieve fixity in the midst of change, Watts argues, is trying to separate ourselves from all that change, trying to enforce a distinction between ourselves and the rest of the world. To seek security is to try to remove yourself from change, and thus from
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