{"id":3756,"date":"2025-07-26T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T16:08:55","slug":"aesthetic-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/aesthetic-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aesthetic Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The worst picture can appeal to our senses and imagination by arousing their activity, setting them free, and leaving them to themselves; the best work of art also appeals to our senses, but in a higher language which, of course, we must understand; it enchains the feelings and imagination; it deprives us of caprice, we cannot deal with a perfect work at our will; we are forced to give ourselves up to it, in order to receive ourselves from it again, exalted and refined.<\/em> Goethe (1749-1832)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">The story of qualia is the story of moving from the worst art to the best art. It is the story of merely living to creating a whole, new life. It is the story of evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">A crisis heightens our awareness, allows us to notice new qualia, and ritualing with qualia arouses, frees, and teaches us who we are. In a crisis we cannot help but act with spontaneity; but with <em>conscious<\/em> ritualing we construct a framework for <em>controlled<\/em> spontaneity. We submit to knowledge and ideals, but within these chains we express ourselves in exalted and refined ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"Textbody wp-block-paragraph\">Conscious ritualing is the pursuit of a higher language, the development of a new aesthetic out of the original qualia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst picture can appeal to our senses and imagination by arousing their activity, setting them free, and leaving them to themselves; the best work of art also appeals to our senses, but in a higher language which, of course, we must understand; it enchains the feelings and imagination; it<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/aesthetic-motivation\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-YA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}