unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
Articulating ideas as simply as possible is attractive, not least because getting people to agree with us is attractive. But we have a tendency to overrate ideas that can be shared easily, with the most apparent advantages. By constant simplifying, we may be lulled into abridging our own ideas a little too much, and sooner or later our audience—or... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
Very few people understand on any level why they’re able to do what they do. Why their relationship works. Why they’re good at their job. Why they’re happy. I remember Helena Fitzgerald writing that people make more art about sadness because it’s so much easier to analyze than happiness, and that continues to ring true to me. It’s really, really... See more
Ava • inarticulable knowledge
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
-Jack Kerouac
what ideas are we missing out on when we can inly tolerate those that can be compressed into bite-sized tweets and TikTok videos.
source: long distance thinking, Simon Sarris
Analogies are a poverty of language
“When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not... See more
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.