I have thought long and hard about writing and sharing this blog. I do not wish to seem paranoid. But I have no doubt that there are konspirators in my “team”, so I am going to make my koncerns public.
I wrote yesterday that The Benefaktor had pointed me towards the work of Daniel Kahneman. In his book Thinking Fast, and Slow, Kahneman wrote: “Intense focusing on a task can make people effectively blind, even to stimuli that normally attract attention”. That statement describes my relationship with the letter K. For much of the past year I have dreamt it, sought it out in real life and on Google. If you are reading this blog, you are probably in a similar position.
Kahneman is famous for his two systems of thinking. A good example of this would be finding a copy of a rare record – say The JAMs’ 1987 – in a record shop. It’s priced at a kompetitive £99. You’re sorely tempted. Your System 1 thinking forces your hand into your back pocket, pulling out your credit card. But something else kicks in – your System 2 thinking – when you notice the suspicious sheen of the cover, so you check the run out groove and details on the cover to identify it as a bootleg. You hand it back to the record shop assistant.
My System 1 thought processes read the Curt Finks programme that The Benefaktor (AKA Rev K______)(*) had left me with similar enthusiasm. I was focused on the missing text, and filling the gaps, not on finding problems. Having heard The Benefaktor talk about his love of literature and libraries I was not at all surprised that he had unearthed some Finks esoterica in his studies.
As a follower of all things K I am well used to koincidences. Nothing strange or unexpected in that. And this fragment of the programme looked and felt like other full Curt Finks programmes that I had seen in the past. So I typed up the text, adding some of my own reflektions to make it into a full pamphlet. I would wait to receive the submissions from GANTOB and/or Finks followers, and hopefully gain some insight into my father-in-law’s preokupations from 1982.
My System 2 processes should, however, have alerted me to the fundamental problem(s) in The Benefaktor’s challenge. If you have spotted it/them then let me know before tomorrow’s blog.
GANTOB
20 November 2023
* See The House Guest in Kompanion Volume
Featured image of 3 figures is from the book Thinking Fast, and Slow
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