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A problem I have is that I like thinking a lot, but rarely, if ever, put any of my thoughts on paper. As such, thinking can kind of start to feel like an unproductive exercise. Not that I think that my thoughts are necessarily worth so much. But it nonetheless seems useful to somehow keep them, perhaps to even build upon them at some point. The use of a notebook seems to solve this issue, but in reality I find it's far too unorganized to serve any purpose beyond the simple act of writing in itself.

This writing down of thoughts, even when I cannot find them back, is still doing something. Other than the fact that creating a product, no matter how unorganized, is a satisfying action, it also serves to capture thought in the moment. In my head it can feel like things are always uncertain, or without end. This is a normal experience of thought I believe, the fact that it never seems to really conclude itself, within my brain at least. The purpose of putting thoughts onto paper, into words that have reality to them, is to freeze them. In fact I find that speaking words to people has much the same effect on my thoughts. It adds a certain amount of gravity to the ideas in my head, and makes them more real.

This post title uses calcifying as a term for this effect, but really I'm not sure there's a single term that entirely covers what I mean. I do like dairy, so I suppose that's why I chose calcium as a metaphor. In the coming future I intend to write some blog posts that are a bit more related to ideology and history. Specifically I want to build from the basic idea of historical contingency to a discussion of left-wing ideology. The fact that I'm putting these ideas out here into words serves to reinforce the point I'm trying to make. Let's see if it will work.