Fieldnote #3: Unpacking

Much of the intellectual life involves unpacking concepts. Annoyingly, other commentators usually come along to unpack the way you unpacked it and so on and so on…The supposed purpose of all this unpacking is to salvage a valuable conclusion, but what exactly makes it valuable? On we go… unpacking conclusions that are the conclusions of unpacked conclusions. And here at the fringes of sanity, the universe goes; chasing its tail with gleeful abandon.