It continues to fascinate me how everyone gets hung up and outraged by the superficial surface issues like money, corporations, religions, cultures, governments, leaders, wars, pandemics, etc.
It's no wonder everyone thinks there's no hope. How complicated it all seems unless you drill past the surface issues to seek the actual source of all of those troubles. Surface issues are nothing more than the many faces of our dystopian state. Spending one's time becoming outraged about them is not beneficial, not helpful. Individual acts, organizations, or viewpoints mean nothing. Worse yet, they confuse the picture. The big picture is required and the picture is huge, comprised of three millennia and billions and billions of individual quirky reactions to one massive disturbance to our sentient state.
If you try to track down each individual's bizarre reaction to the widely varying circumstances each encounters, the picture becomes hopeless. The disparate reactions would make one think that it cannot possibly be tracked down to an individual source. Add in the awful behaviour of organizations and groups of like-minded individuals that fill the headlines and it becomes a completely hopeless confusion. One has to look for commonalities.
It is amazing me on occasion that I was able to avoid it all and get to the source. As I said, I was never looking for an answer, I was never looking for something to say, I was looking for clarity. None of the usual suspects added up. As I putter along waiting for the rest of the race to catch up with me and watch the human race blow a gasket, once again, I've gotten caught up enough in some of it lately to see the appeal.
Certainly a big part of it is that I never let the modern day version of fairy tales, that is the news, seriously catch my attention, until just lately. The news is meant to scare children, just like fairy tales. I could get into how both fairy tales and the news, also, display the same sadistic tendencies of a frustrated race, but what would be the point. Make a big enough splash and you can capture the foolish attention of the whole prehuman race. SMH.
Sadism, though, might be worth exploring. It is a very good representative trait of a sentient race that is acting like a demented animal.
Even now, I temper my indulgence. I read some of the headlines and roll my eyes. I seldom get past the headlines. It is more than enough. The urgency that one feels when it gets bad enough is such a great distraction from what is really going on. Every now and again, I make some snide comment on it all (which I am trying to remove from these posts but let remain on one social site).
But, once again, I am learning to keep my distance. It is so easy to feel one must watch for the end of the world as we get closer to burning it all to the ground and never realize that, unless we do something significant, we will always be watching for the end of the world as we continue to attempt to burn it all to the ground. We are doing a fine job of it.
It's no wonder everyone thinks there's no hope. How complicated it all seems unless you ignore all of the antics that are meant to distract. All of it is nothing more than the many faces of the single source of our dystopia. Somehow, I feel there is a tie to another post I have been working on, 'Keeping up appearances'.
It's like I've said elsewhere about people trying to engage me in one of many ways, from attempting to confront me about something foolish to attempting to get a reaction out of me through their antics. It just never appealed to me. Most people regret not having a snappy comeback when someone says something awful or diminishing. I've known all along that any response is all it takes to become ensnared in the stupour. It would diminish me. There's been plenty chipped away, even in my case, and it infuriates me that I let it happen. It is all part of living in a prehuman condition and becomes more and more difficult to avoid if one wants to live at all. Until the prehuman mental state is gone.
Anyways, concentrating on superficial surface issues. What's the point? Think about it enough, you will finally realize that it leads nowhere. How to explain? I want to use the arcade game whac-a-mole, once again, as an analogy. No matter how many you whack, there's always another popping up. Or, maybe more comprehensible would be to imagine trying to stamp out a volcano. The superficial surface issues can never stamp out the insanity that leads to the superficial issues. It is an endless game. They are not the source of insanity. They are only the symptoms of the disease, not the disease itself. Note that the insanity is continuing to grow in scale on all fronts. I won't try to prove that. If you can't see it for yourself, if you can't admit that we are going from bad to worse, then...
I could reel off a list of the horrors we create that would fill a book. They are all damaging but screaming about any one or all of them does nothing. It doesn't even slow them down.
The one that really began to stick in my craw is misogyny. It may explain it best. Women (and some men) scream about specific examples of misogyny, never realizing (or admitting, at least) that it is a general condition of the male gender. It is only the big, blatant examples of misogyny that are even acknowledged. Even the micro-aggression versions of misogyny do not reveal the whole picture. The most subtle examples of misogyny are not even recognized as such. I don't want to get into it further because it is just a surface issue. We do not become Human by concentrating on the superficial surface issues and, yes, as awful as misogyny is, it is still a surface issue that is only eliminated by eliminating the source of our upheaval as a race.
This leads us back to the question. Why has everyone concentrated on the surface issues? The easy answer is that we have no confidence in our race. "We are only human" describes it well, but even that dodges the real reason. It is nothing more than acceptance of how awful we remain as a race that has not attained its sentience.
We have been trained for a lifetime; from the imprinting on our initial role models that represent the prehuman (some more than others) to the daily assault on our senses and viewpoint by the prehuman context in which we currently exist. This may make it all seem hopeless until you realize there is a cause for our madness and prehuman state that can be confronted and overcome.
We are taught, one might say subliminally, to never look deeper because we "know" what we will find. Or, more specifically, we have been trained to fear what we will find (think fairy tales).
We are sentient (whether we are yet willing to admit it or not), so we care. We want things better but we are halted in our tracks from real improvement before we can delve deep enough to count. We have been trained to fear looking any deeper. That training has held sway for three millennia.
It's much like I have described it of late. It is all about the truth and the lie about coitus. Everything else is superfluous until that is corrected. We have not come near to confronting this, the real issue that holds us back.
The truth is the current rutting animal's rendition of coitus is not satisfactory for a sentient race that is far more aware than any animal. The lie is that there is nothing to be done about it.
This, the unfulfilled state of our sentience drives us mad.
Okay. I quit. For now. I think it is close enough to post, now.