Connect

is the opposite of Contact

Connect means to recognize the situation of another person, and in recognizing it, to find oneself called to think about it.

The situation, in other words, calls on us to think, and to respond to the person, following, that, actual, thought.

Then connection can happen. Conversation starts, and brings more recognition, more thought, more conversation, more recognition..., and so on.

This is connection. It’s mutual necessarily.

There are places in this world where people show no ability to do any of this. The process never begins. Instead they seem occupied with one thought only, over and over impenetrably, of being [country X]-ish.

Nothing else enters their mind.

My first 43 years of life I had no contact with [country X]. I remember those years, having no idea at all what it was like in [country X], never thinking of it, never thinking to think of it. Knowing nothing and having no reason to know, no occasion and knowing no one there.

Then, 15 years of knowing it.

And all life draws out of me now as if I’m a battery grounding out in contact with the lunar death orb.

That’s contact.

Not connection.

Put yourself in contact with the moon void massphere, and feel the last of your life, heart and soul sucked away.

The fact that you know me and I’m telling you this, ought to provoke thought.

I am literally living Kubrick’s Space Odyssey.