If you really see the causation between your thoughts clearly, you should be able to undo them (9-4b2a1d0.3 The essence of analysis is articulation - 分析の本質は分節). After all, 12-1e Nothing is necessary = Everything is contingent.
Similar logic applies in understanding history. Enlightenment is in understanding why such and such events are happening. The biggest difference with personal enlightenment is that it’s way tougher to undo historical chain of events. It’s easier to change your perspective than changing history. But we exist in specific historic moment, and cannot get away with history.
Where your knowledge came from per se doesn’t really matter, but understanding where it came from does matter, to an extent that it allows you to see the connections and causation between your own thoughts. The process matters more than the location.
- 1-2d You have to know your problem-situation (and your web of ideas) as best as you can to judge the merit of new explanations
- 9-4b2a1d A group of people who doesn’t know who they are and where they came from won’t make it to the moon or Mars
- 9-2a1 It doesn’t matter where you came from (or where you are); what matters is what you can do and where you are going
- 10-1b4e Developing a taste means transitioning from being obsessed with where it came from (analog) to focusing on what it is and what it can do (digital)