As a committed rationalist, I have pondered the issue of whether there are any human events that can be considered primal or immutable. Clearly, in discussing immutability in any human context, one runs head-on into the problems of free will, choice, pluralism, democratic values and the like. One must qualify any such inquiry,then, by stating the obvious: that action and behavior are controllable by human will; and the very mention of will introduces the idea of a voluntary decision-making process.
What interests me far more, however, is what happens before the rational mind can prescribe a certain course of action. In addressing any issues of authenticity, one must take into account the role of feelings as markers of truth in human events, even while acknowledging that actions will often modify first impulses based on emotional response.
My curiosity has been based, for as long as I can remember, in a fundamental desire to understand the workings of my own mind, as well as to find a profound anchor for my work in musical performance which, ultimately, is a search for the means of projecting emotional truth.
I intend to take this electronic opportunity to probe the issue of personal and artistic truth, both as practice in document formation and as an exercise in free-associative exploration.