Ambiguity

Territories

There seems to be a clear territory of cultural rules - patterns and cycles of thought and behaviour we tend to clearly live in. They appear to live beyond another territory, an ambiguous one, that most people notice in short intervals. The latter doesn’t seem to need an explanation; there doesn’t appear to be one.

Competition

It’s commonly observed that most kids grow with an instinctual tendency to compare and compete in the simplest activities. Some subtly diminish this tendency as they become more conscious of true behavioural ambiguity, some retain it. Others surrender to its multifaceted nature - Is it a loss of drive? Is it how hidden artists are formed? To see natural selection outside the focused lens of the subject being examined can certainly dissipate the competitive instinct and replace it with a different drive we often feel, forget, can’t explain.

Voluntary patterns

It seems to be mere competence, skill, in various forms that amalgamates an individual - creating behavioural patterns, shaping ‘clear cultural territories’. The realization and the reminder of true ambiguity at times, is either a means to irrationality or to be genuinely free of voluntary cultural patterns. I’m not sure yet.

Primary references:

A Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari

Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche