Being exposed to a scent for a long time, looking at an image from the past, becoming familiar with the world, not stepping into silence enough to realize that a piece of music is just music, or all other forms of closeness, they make us experience a memory loss that distances us from strangeness, which is the most alert form of encountering an object. Habit is a learning that creates a very convoluted contradiction spiral within memory itself; the more you come into contact with that thing, the more it finds vitality in your memory and although your consciousness gains a lively intensity about that thing, this intensity also acquires a habit that cannot stop itself from limiting only to the previous ones by always escaping the thought it encompasses to a point that is always best remembered. Self-aware ignorance is superior only by holding a fresh understanding power, but it is deficient with its shallowness. Being unable to habituate to the sound of music is its most extreme state and is in a much more unfavorable position because it cannot hear despite being exposed to the image. Because you can only persuade it to the thing standing in front of it, and it is an insurmountable barrier.
The first interventions in behaviors come from emotions, and in terms of learning, the implicit assumption that values the wisdom of old age is based on sentimentality. People’s pleasure in thinking about the existence of a time when the self is isolated from emotions by calling it “logical”, emphasizing such a “logical” (truthful?) self, reveals another sentimentality that hides its own weakness by longing for a “professional” area where sentimentality can be experienced even hidden from the subject. That is, the person who engages their mind and acts cautiously in a matter that has previously caused trouble is more emotional than the one who jumps into it immediately. Because such a moment is an anxious moment against a possible pain. For example, an insecure person — who has experienced enough trouble to justify not trusting someone — is someone who is terrified of suffering with their cautious attitudes under their “emotionless” professionalism. Therefore, what we call learning and its state that invades all consciousness, habit, is the rationality of a circus bear trained with fires and is fresh with an animal instinct.
This instinct is protective, of course. But who would want to turn into a circus bear dancing with actions that are logical according to the previous context but illogical according to the current context? Such dances can even be found in the movements of an eye wandering on someone else’s face.
