When one provides for incompleteness as a permanent feature and disabuses oneself of ambitions of dominance, one develops a disposition that privileges interconnections, interdependences and the reality of debt and indebtedness. An awareness that a life of incompleteness is ultimately about recognising and providing for debt and indebtedness, of which no one is free. Put differently, we are who we are through a process of interdependence and indebtedness. This recognition facilitates the cultivation of a disposition of humility that enables one to see and provide for interconnections. One is who one is because of others. Even if one does not always service one's debts, let alone repay them, one is conscious that one is not self-made. At the same time, one is the product of various networks of interconnections, to the production and reproduction of which one actively contributes. The current debate about colonial monuments and statues in South Africa and elsewhere, I posit, could be enriched by the notions of incompleteness and conviviality. I develop this further below.
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