Both modes of thinking are useful in different circumstances. If I’m making moves in the stock market, I should exercise calculating thought. If I’m trying to make sense of a new and unexpected situation in the world, or the discovery of thick desires, I need meditative thought. Calculating thought simply doesn’t stay in the present long enough for anything thick to present itself. Meditative thinking is the antidote to a culture of hyperspeed mimesis because it allows time to develop thick desires. Transformation happens when I spend enough time with my desires to know them by name and know
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