Unpredictability

The capacity to do something new -- it is key to Modernism, but it is not so easily achieved as one might suppose. The human mind moves in grooves, and according to habit, in its normal state.

Jazz (the production of which would not be possible without "inner experience" in Bataille's sense), boxing, ongoing guerilla warfare (including that of the psychological sort) all require the capacity for unpredictability.

But the human mind naturally goes within habitual grooves...