Essays written by Alex Sitze on a variety of subjects.
Creative BLOCKS Are Meant for Playing with: I’m unsure what to write about. All I know is the title. Come to think of it, I can’t even imagine what I would write about. Instead, I find myself writing rewriting expressions of frustration at not knowing what to write about…this so-called “creative block.” I’ll admit, I’m…
Sometimes, from my stream of consciousness, an idea will roil up from the depths that compels me to jot it down, usually in a half-formed iPhone Note that I won’t revisit for stretches at a time. Once I do, I usually discover that it has either a) expired in relevance, or b) incubated some insight,…
“No-reason rationality” is not the same as irrationality, which is insanity. Why? No reason. See? Because there’s no reason. That’s the reason. To elaborate, when something arbitrary or spontaneous occurs, one of two reactions by the mind may follow: The first is to answer the question, “what reason did x occur?,” with the statement, “no…
