Get off your damn phone and concentrate on driving your car! You’re shitty enough at it when already paying attention. Morons.
Also, stop tossing your spent smokes wherever you happen to be – on the street, out the car window, in the bus shelter, etc. You don’t have the right to litter just because your garbage is on fire. Man the fuck up and take responsibility for the garbage that your addiction produces. The streets and lawns outside businesses in this town are grotesque with strewn butts. — I_Know_It_Won’t_Help_But_I’ll_Keep_Trying
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2014.
Yeah. But the best of the worse are the ones who throw out their butts from the car window in a wooded dry area in the middle of a heat wave, and tjhe forest fire index is moderate or high. They are the dumbest of the dumb. When I see this I would like to be able to shove the butt down their throats.
Yours truly
THE TACIT-FOCAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
One assumes that it was the same person on his phone while driving his car and tossing his spent smokes out the car window. What is going on here? More specifically, what is going on in his mind? I believe what is going on reflects the tacit-focal structure of human consciousness. Let me explain.
Clearly, when he is on his phone his focal or explicit awareness is on the conversation he is having but not on the surrounding traffic conditions. One might say that the latter is in the tacit or subsidiary mode of conscious awareness while the former is in the focal or explicit mode. In the same way, when he throws his butts out the car window, the world outside his car is in the tacit or subsidiary mode of conscious awareness. It is not clear at just that time what might be in the focal mode – it could be that conversation he was having on his phone!
But the important point is that this is not unusual. Indeed, all conscious awareness is structured in this tacit-focal manner. When you read these words your focal attention is not directed at the words themselves but rather at the meaning those words are intended to convey. The words themselves reside at the tacit or subsidiary level of consciousness. They are “background” so to speak but it is important to note that they are not “subconscious” in any Freudian sense. We are consciously aware of them but only tacitly, only subsidiarily so.
Interestingly, well sort of, when I am writing this, my awareness of the tacit-focal structure of consciousness resides at the subsidiary level. In tacit fashion, I rely on that awareness acquired in the course of writing my Ph.D. thesis entitled “Personal Knowledge and Philosophical Analysis.” It was a critique of the British school of analytical philosophers in education from the perspective of the what the Hungarian philosopher (and scientist) Michael Polanyi called “personal knowledge” but which is identical to – you guessed it – that bi-focal structure of human conscious awareness here called tacit-focal awareness.
As I was writing I was thinking – I’m always thinking – whether I could place my focal awareness of the tacit-focal structure of human conscious at the tacit level. My previously focal awareness when writing this comment would then come to rest at the tacit level but the question then arises as to what would lie at the focal level. Is a consciousness bootstrap operation possible here? My guess is that it might have something to do with the levels of reflective conscious awareness, but more work needs to be done.
Thank you for your understanding and your focal conscious awareness. (A little joke there,)
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
wheels, i smoke and thank fuck, i have more sense than that. any dumb shit that actually starts a fire that way, and is reported, should have to pay the whole fucking cost of putting it out, whether small or large, and then, they should be arrested for arson. because my friend, that is actually what it is. i have helped put out many woods fire in years gone by, when i lived in bridgewater and yarmouth both. and it can be fucking scary.
Yeah – man da fuck up homie. Man da fuck up and throw away your cigarette butts in a proper orderly fashion like a real man. You pussy ass bitches throwing your cigarettes on the ground make me sick!
OH HUM!
Look at that – 6 “dislikes” but no one had the ability to write a coherent response. What does that tell you? That’s right, that’s exactly what it tells you. Oh hum.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
montrealman — pedantic and self-serving. Happy?
No coherent response and plenty of dislikes because no-one wants to read any of the inane shit you spew.
zZzedward Hyde — now you done it; we are gonna get a sleep drool inducing dissertation on Froot Loops and Cheerios.
Oh Hum!