Metacognition is Prolix

My emails in the course of club interactions are series of streams of consciousness at times but more often they are simply moments that mirror my preference for thinking out aloud.  So it is that any act of metacognition cannot follow a straight path, and the process of insights and awareness are never linear.  It is what gets a few people fascinated by the subject of fractals, because we are constantly looking for patterns, but the reality of insights is they emerge from a prolix sea of thought.

Now I imagine what would an Alistair Cooke of Metacognition look like?  What would those letters be that instead of going out to the world are going to the core of our own consciousness. It is Cooke's radio session that is a fascinating way of thinking.  Even Cooke described it as "free association" but he also allowed a process to emerge from that free association and in the end my young mind was greatly influenced by this radio style Cooke exhibited.

The mind itself can be a highly fragile instrument especially if we are prone to anxiety, obsession or overwhelm and so it is that the prolix neural connections that is free association is not for everyone, indeed it is probably not for a majority of persons - especially if they were educated through the stultifying effect of commercial media and mass media entertainment. The mentality here is not a broadcast, it is a metacognition.  The challenge for me is knowing what is actually meaningful in a sea of thought.  What seemed like an easy idea to execute such as "The Prolix Letters" is actually much more challenging thing then I could ever have imagined.  These are my thoughts and we live in a society predicated on consumption.  The true waste is our life as consumers, whereas the prolix nature of our unwritten thinking contains us in it.