i’m enjoying this in the moment/being stuff. some rather interesting things come of it.
over at tribe, speaking of the nature of alienation, the following swam up from the deeps and trickled down my arms and onto the page:
in my experience, alienation of any form is a reactive (dis)relation to perception, regardless the reason for it. when outside, a choice to turn for inability to accept… when inside, a choice to withdraw for inability to accept. but both a choice, and both for inability to accept.
the causes of that inability range wide. but they share one thing in common — ego — the belief that what is perceived is what IS, that it is objectively knowable as what IS. that perception (and by extension, its holder) trumps all others and thereby is self-referentially justified in all acts of encroachment, dominance, and aggression in relation to forcing that perception upon others… and to punish them via the social vehicles of ridicule and denigration and ultimately, rejection if others prove insurmountable.
if one reviews any history, the dynamic is immediately observable. and it is, i think, the canker in every would be rose of progress. humans just seem all too eager to rally in aggressive self-justification and they too easily commit evil for and by it.
risking redundancy, it is not the perception that is at fault, it is the ego that chooses to believe it is justified in all means and acts to perpetrate the assimilation of it by others.
that goes as much for anything one would classify as ‘good’ as ‘bad’. which, if one contemplates it, eventually lends its own insights.
best of all, i don’t have to think on it. heh.