without proper planning or resources, we house more ideas each day

In previous generations, thinkers, those who reflect about the nature of reality and themselves, could develop their way of thinking into a coherent and structured system. Their worlds were static enough that they had the time to build an effective lens to understand it as it was. With the increasing rate of change of modern society, this has become not only increasingly more difficult, but ineffective.

We, modern thinkers, come in contact very early in our lives with a plethora of ways and systems of thinking, be it by active study or by passive absorption of their “ghosts” in the collective consciousness. These ways of thinking come in various forms: some spiritual, some philosophical, some practical; each with their own set of beliefs, each with their own limitation.

The problem is that we are constantly bombarded with so much information that whenever we try to adopt a particular way of analyzing reality, it quickly shows itself to us more than the lens can observe.

All models are wrong, but some are useful. — George Box

Over time, we become so attuned to this process, that whenever we try to structure a solid way of understanding reality, before even beginning, we already found its limitations. This makes our minds become less of a temple or palace that you plan, build and maintain; and more of a favela: forced to keep growing and changing to house way more inhabitants than it ever should.

A place of constant change and creation. A place that each day has more inhabitants than the less. A violent place where inhabitants constantly die. A place where the lack of resources make many struggle. A place of adaptation.

This is our minds.