When The Mind Won't Shut Up

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer

than the staple of his argument. 

-- Loves Labours Lost, William Shakespeare

There is something about a certain kind of speech that always irks me.  I associate it with the Green meme, so beloved of cultural creatives as it is.

I am glad I never encountered it in Wilber's writings, and indeed that may be the key to why I grabbed his books off the shelves with such enthusiasm.  So lucid, clean, simple, and direct -- such ordered plans you could be sure they would be useful.

What I thought I was leaving behind, with the Green meme, was the insufferable endless waffle of inconsequential narratives, of circular suppositions, of pointless thrusts, neutered notes, acerbic sweeteners, pompous understatements, and vacuous visions -- in short, of utterly depthless meanings, fantastical certainties, wibbly tremors, and pale tans of ineffectual pigments.  To sum up, rubbish, trash, balderdash -- in present: waffle.

But woe is me!!

The waffle didn't go!  It took a vacation, and returned with reinforcements!!!

How can I cope?  Beloved Integral, propping up Gafni -- To Reinterpretation, and Beyond! -- and Cohen -- Not Only But Also and No Less than -- wafflers extraordinaire!

Well I gave it some time, you know, the humble stance of the layman, the shut up and listen attitude of not speaking out of place, but after, um, 5 years of this, I've had enough.  No, no, another two hours of audio and a new book and several essays won't be it... no longer, enough, the line has been drawn, the train has left the station, I fucking DIED already.  How many more lifetimes of waffle will it take before I get whatever point they are trying to make?  Whatever it is they are pretending to teach?

I don't know.  

And frankly my dear, I no longer give a damn.

Sayonara baby.

PS.  I'm sorry, I left that ambiguous.  I don't mean I'm "leaving Integral" (I'm not "inside" Integral so there's nothing to "leave" -- I'm a guy who just liked reading Wilber's books and likes hanging out on the forums).

What I'm saying sayonara to is any teacher who waffles and waffles.  I used to think waffle could appeal as a style to some.  I assumed that underneath all the verbiage there was an actual teaching.  

I'm done giving them the benefit of the doubt.