Mike says I should write about morality so here's the problem as I see it. There is life and life is the flurry of real attitudes, actualities and events. After these events have all taken place, that is after history has transpired, certain people try to make sense of what has happened. Some of these people may be very inexperienced in life. They've grown up in such a way that others have regulated a lot of their experiences, so that they don't need to make difficult choices or perhaps they have not grown up all that much at all, so that they feel that goodness is the same as being passive. In any case, these people look at the events that have transpired in history and instead of understanding them, they make exclamations of alarm. It's almost like they think the whole of history shouldn't have happened just so they can stay contained in their narrow, uncontaminated existence and they don't love the mess of life, which is understandable, but they assume that everybody would be better off living just like them or even that this would be possible in the long term.
Well, they are self-deceived because their regulated fish tank existence is highly artificial and had to be put in place by people who were able to think outside the format of this overly controlled existence.
That's what's wrong with moral posturing and posing. It's usually done by people who don't like things to be too complicated for them. They don't take into account that life itself has this primeval nature of oozy complexity. That upsets them.
People who view cultural differences as having to do with morality choices or moral stature or principles of right and wrong and not thinking deeply enough, but this level of superficiality is endemic to our times. We find it hard to take into account primeval ooze, the substance of reality, just because we are not exposed to it enough. We see only the rocks and leaves that others have placed into our existence.
When reading my writing, understand that I have not fending off the finer faculties of discrimination or discernment about life and all that's in it. Rather I am standing for integration and complexity.
Try and figure it out. That's hard.
Well, they are self-deceived because their regulated fish tank existence is highly artificial and had to be put in place by people who were able to think outside the format of this overly controlled existence.
That's what's wrong with moral posturing and posing. It's usually done by people who don't like things to be too complicated for them. They don't take into account that life itself has this primeval nature of oozy complexity. That upsets them.
People who view cultural differences as having to do with morality choices or moral stature or principles of right and wrong and not thinking deeply enough, but this level of superficiality is endemic to our times. We find it hard to take into account primeval ooze, the substance of reality, just because we are not exposed to it enough. We see only the rocks and leaves that others have placed into our existence.
When reading my writing, understand that I have not fending off the finer faculties of discrimination or discernment about life and all that's in it. Rather I am standing for integration and complexity.
Try and figure it out. That's hard.
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