Altruism

It is really sad that in this age of ours, acts without an end must have an end attached to them, one way or other, even if that end is completely fabricated. As an act for its own sake causes cognitive dissonance, or rather cognitive disarray and confusion. One is forced to lie in order to stop the cognitive dissonance in another and the pain thereafter arising from the disarray.

Alas, how hard it is for an action for its own sake to have any sort of stability in our current world, without lies and deceit. With every attempt at an act without an end for the acter, the acter is forced to lie about his/her act in order to maintain the communication with him/her that the act has included, the second person who’s indepedent of the acter and is observing and judging the act as they are affected by it demands this of the acter. The acter is thus forced to be what he/she is not in order to “keep up appearances”, in order to “please”, in order to “maintain communication”.

How unfortunate, that there is no room for the glory of altruism, or the act without an immediate end, in a world of our common everyday encounter; nothing manifests this more than relations amongst persons who ‘could’ be attracted to eachother sexually.

Oh, how easily the world’s insecurity is revealed by a single act in its direction without a directly perceivable or conceivable end. Even if such an act is to happen, one would use the pleasure in the acter as the mediator for the telos(end) of the action; it seems all acts can be found mediated, except one that is beautifully articulated by Soren Kierkegaard, beautifully and at the same time controversially. People would much rather mediate all acts, be able to read everyone and as such be safe, than surrender it all to the depths of the immeditate.

How easy is it to proudly exclaim, “I don’t know and it doesn’t matter”, as opposed to “Why did she/he do that”? The former’s requisition is a mad, unfathomable trust, the latter’s is social savvy/intellect. We go on breeding more and more of the latter, the result is the death of the former, the death of something beautiful and wonder-inducing. March on intellect, march on hand in hand with cautiousness, march on to your own destruction.

Shame

Indeed, shame is the lowest form of emotion; at the base level of all other emotions that ‘human beings’ can feel. Shame however is also an indicator of the possibility of being a human being. Thus, it may be the lowest form of emotion, but at least it seperates you from being an ‘animal’; so if you feel shame, then alas, you are in salvation. Ladies and gents, don’t hate or be against shame, rise above it to the other set of emotions, the more beautiful ones like joy and love (although I hesitate to equate love to an emotion, rather than a composition of emotions amongst other things). To be ‘against’ shame is to be ‘for’ animalism; but if you can feel shame, you’re not an animal – please stop acting like one.

Dualism

If the world was black and white, then we would all be dogs.

Journey

Journeys are set in motion by one motivating thought. Along the journey that particular thought becomes akin to a fetus, it grows and grows in intensity and clarity, and with each few steps it causes everything around it to fit into place. Eventually, as it grows mature and fulfils its duty, it collapses completely, leaving you in silence, peace and bliss.