For the DEEP thinker, the surface is seen as distraction to be overcome or conceded to as a place of relaxation. Focused attention is the attention of the expert. We must develop the techniques not of focus, centering, concentration, but of expansion across surfaces. Socrates thought that knowledge of that which changes could not be knowledge. Surfaces however are temporal.
Images are in time, as jumpy as a TV image when the satellite is slightly off beam.
One can of course love the noise, sink into the chaos. Pay attention to the distraction. It has become clear that the activities cannot be projected to continue into the future, either because they will have destroyed the environmental conditions necessary for that continuation, or because their environmental effects will cause massive, unacceptable damage to human health and disruption of human ways of life. One way is to empty the count and turn to the practice of the free unfolding of generalized, mathematical forms. When these forms are used cunningly, to construct causal sequences in the physical world, the sequences are unlimited and ultimately exhaust the limited resources.