Intentionality

                                                          
                                                             
 My placing these words in this order in this space
is an example of evident intentionality.  Whether
through a visionary experience or months of rational
labor, whatever is kept (like a secret) in my mind    
is an object of hidden intentionality.  Hope lives in    
the former, and faith lives in the latter.  If no one
reads what I try to share, my hope and intentions will
not matter.  If I forget and cannot recall what was   
in my mind, my faith and intentions will not matter.
Actually, even if you discern my intentions and the  
signs I use here, they will only retain importance by
what you decide to do with them.  Infederowsah, Ishtin.
                                                       
But let me proceed to an explanation at EPC about     
"Uncreativity as a Creative Practice" 
by Kenneth Goldsmith.  The title seems oxymoronic,
but it is bluntly factual.  Mr. Goldsmith had set
himself the task of becoming totally uncreative  
by his fortieth birthday, and his present project,
tedious as it was/is, exemplified his best effort so
far toward that end.  He reveals the urges he's had
to subdue in order to successfully accomplish his
task.  We are managers of information, and cannot
be other.  The way he dresses befits this/ idea.
I have the feeling he is better suited than most
for doing what he does.  Not that most do not do
similar things.  It's just that most do them, not
because they see it as beyond choice, but rather
because sometimes they are beyond choice.  I was
a night auditor at mostly busy motels and hotels
for many years, during which the technologies   
used in the hospitality business changed often.
However, there were times when weather or error
caused those technologies to shut down, forcing
employees to resort to doing everything by hand.
Therein lies the point:  Regardless of the task,
creativity is creativity; and sometimes the more
difficult the task, the greater the creativity needed
to complete it.                                   
                                                      
I am beginning to suspect that, like the customer,
the intentionalities of an artifact's perceiver   
are ultimately more powerful than those of an        
artifact's maker.                                     
                                                       
                                                      
                                                    
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