"If I spent less time looking for my own ecstasy, perhaps I could care for others a bit more. Just a tiny bit more would be all right"
I have been thinking for some days about how we're obliged to participate and care for the rest of humanity. Real democracy in the Greek sense does not exist, for this global society only works through the impulses of one's own desire. Consumerism and democracy are not compatible for they stand in completely different pillars. If I'm only searching for my own ecstasy as it happens most of the times, then how can I care for others? A notion has to fade away and replaced by a new paradigm of caring for others. It is not enough going or twice a year and voting for a candidate, that's not enough to guarantee a global benefit. But then what is it?
Society is shifting, appareantly, at least on it's shallow layer it's changing for good, so we have been told. People caring about the situations happening in other countries and "support them" Yet is it real support liking and sharing a video? commenting for a minute about how unfair such situation is in X country? Teens and people in their 20's are mostly and easily manipulated to fall into campaigns. It's not their fault though, as propaganda has existed for long. Ready to move people even to their deepest level. What we're witnessing nowadays is a whole new scale of propaganda. Where millions of people around the planet, watch a video and can even decide the fate of certain State.
How to distinguish between a real move, a real protest, and a scam? I believe it cannot be done. There's interests in all sides of the struggle, everyone trying to gain a benefit for themselves. Only thing left to do is to feel empathy and compassion, evade any kind of judgment and just wish for the end of conflict.
Until what point has humanity lost touch with reality? Just enough watching and reading videos such as the viral one of Ukraine, or reading the news about the latter Venezuela. Both sides of the conflict wish death upon the other. Both bring their arguments. For example, who is there to deny that the EU has its interests? just as who is there to deny Putin's one? in the middle of everything there's the people. Some with a bit more of Austrohungarian feeling pro EU integration, while others more into the Russian side. And what about those that are simply nationalistic? WHAT CAN IT BE DONE? At first, a movement, a legitimate movement to change a putrid and corrupt State shiftes into a struggle of interests. West vs East. What about Venezuela? a country where a minority of people, an ultra shallow minority of people kept the resources for entire decades. That cannot be denied either. For if there had not been such inequality, such poverty on one side, and on the other an incredible wealth, Chavez would not have risen. The anger and grudge in the class struggle would not have emerged, but it did. It was legitimate the need for bringing equal opportunities, a change in favor of the country per se. However, that has not happened with the so called socialism of the XXI century. Misery has only been shared, more hatred has been created, where is all the oil and wealth? Corruption and putrefaction is all that lies there. YET... who is to say that the opposition isn't corrupt also? corrupt in another, more capitalistic way? As days pass, I believe everyone involved in the world of politics is corrupt. For all the wealth and liberty supposedly enjoyed in the anglosphere there's also massive alienation. For all the pride in the opposition there's oppression being inflicted. Where's the real liberty?
DEATH TO THE NATION OF POLITICS, AVERSION OF THE STATE!!!
BUT... IF I SUSCRIBE TO A NOTION OF ANARCHY, AREN'T I LOSING MY LIBERTY ANYWAY? COMPROMISING MYSELF TO A NOTION, I'M DEPOSITING MY FAITH IN IT. THEREFORE I HAVE LOST MY FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, THE BLINDNESS STARTS.
I EXIST BECAUSE I DON'T JUDGE...
I'M GUIDED BY MY HEART, THEREFORE I AM FREE.
Genuinely I believe that in the moment we recurr to something learned from the outside, instead from the inner feelings, what dictates the heart, we lose freedom. But then again, this is also tricky as how can we listen to our heart? we certainly need guides in order to learn, or better to say, relearn how to know what we feel, and how to act. It's a concept for me impossible to explain, can only be perceived I guess.
Anyway... back to the other topic. How can any politician or movement hold any credibility? It's quite difficult to actually believe society as a whole is going somewhere right. Feelings arise of disappointment with the whole body of composed nations. Sometimes I believe the best that can be done is to escape, to drift apart from that whole. Tired of watching and listening discussions, social conflicts, better to move somewhere apart from that. Where the sky is of emerald colour, and the sea is like lapislazuli. Doesn't it sound much better than kept being stuck in the eye of the hurricane?
Numerous monks and hermits in both eastern and western traditions have secluded from society because of reasons like this. Such detachment and independency from the outter world indeed helped them achieve a better sense of things. Christian monks living in mountains, Theravada monks in temples of Thailand still practice such path of discipline. Aware of the conflicts in samsara, yet detaching themselves from most of them.
Is this however the noblest of paths?
Some days ago I read a wonderful speech by the Dalai Lama. In it, he explained how Tibet lived secluded from the outter world for many centuries. Keeping their kingdom in the mountains, unaware of what was happening far from there and continuing with their own way of life. However, the British finally arrived. And after them the Nazis, and finally they were conquered by Mao's men. He said, he stated, that in this new era is not possible to live secluded, apart from that big all. We all must care about each other, help each other. That's the best life. The easier way of preventing one self from the suffering of permanent contact and dependence with others is not to be avoided.
For the cosmos impulses us, drive us together. We're trapped in an immense wave of a drastic ocean. In which we have to hold hands together.
This is simply a beautiful reduction, going straight to the point of the Mahayana tradition, of the Bodhisattva way. In which the supposed enlightenment is not achieved through seclusion, but sacrificed in order for the need of others. For love of others we sacrifice every single interest, even if it's the noblest of spiritual paths (no matter the tradition) for in the end, that's only but a personal interest as well.
Going back to Western terms this could be translated not as an obligaton (for it's one's own will) but as a decission to participate. To be part of the continuos change.
How to be a part of such change anyway? Marx said any social struggle is a political struggle. Should we agree with this way of thinking? If so how social is to help others, consoling them and practicing a non-ending empathy and avoiding judging others? Isn't this what modern politics is?
I dare and repeat again. We're due to care for others, to feel empathy and help. But the only possible way is through empathy, compassion and not judging. All these modern ways of "liking and sharing a video or link" or giving your own opinion about a conflict is worthless. For how can you know the truth? if you see someone in need help him/her. Do not hesitate based on prejudices or paradigms. That's the only way I guess. Yet I have no idea.
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