Pessism and cynicism reign, or rain down upon the masses. The only people who do not see this are cocooned in the delusions but will be inevitably wakened to life's harsh realities. Okay, I can't write dark and poetically.
The guys from South Park, parker and stone, recently said in an interview that the only truly crazy people, though they used a more benign term than crazy, are atheists. They also make fun of religion, but to believe in nothing is just weird. Agnostics seem to be alright.
What am I getting to? Look at the big picture. The big picture sucks. The best way to become pessimistic is to look at the world as it is. Oh wait, look a beautiful picture of a family playing with a puppy. My faith in the beauty of life is restored. Maybe not, people are people kind right now by people who do not give one shit that they are ending someone's life. Sometimes they are even overjoyed. It is truly a horrible world. The sum total of all our existences seems like an excercise is cruelty and futility. People are designed to covet, take, and defile.
Love. Love will solve are problems. That is all we need. Love, the ultimate impossibility. To desire someone so much that you want them to be a part of you. But, you will always be left wanting. No one can become you, or know you that well, as well as you know yourself. My head head itches, I don't move. Can my lover/partner ever possibly understand that without me telling them? What a burden. To have someone satisfy some of your needs but in the end leaves you wanting.
Have you ever walked outside and thought "being alive smells wonderful today."? The sheer pleasure of any one of the five senses can be appreciated every moment. It is a blessing, though not from any particular god, to be alive. The Hunted, a movie with Christopher Lambert, yes, him, gives us a good quote, from a Japanese female. "Do you want to die quickly or slowly?" Slowly." "Why?" "So I can enjoy every last moment of life." A little hard to appreciate. When I am in pain, I usually only think about getting out of the pain and back into a bottle. But the it is a very Buddhist outlook, though not from every Buddhist sect.
This very ego-centric way of looking at life can seem very limiting and escapist to a degree. The challenge comes with expanding it to encompassing world changing actions. Or, agruing how the world can be saved through enlightenment/you become one with everything to put it simply. But, both topics have filled books written by other people so I will end here for today.
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Very good post. I'll just post a cliche and then write in more depth tomorrow as a reply:
basically, definiitely, totally we (and certainly I) need to move past an ego-centric view of life etc: but, the old cliche goes that you've gotta fix yourself/the stink in your backyard before trying to move elsewhere. otherwise your foundations arn't grounded in the first place. (or whatever, it's late i can't be fucked explanding the cliche but you know it).
Your post deserves a lot more attention though so I will when i have time.
I like this post because I disagree (or don't see the point) with a lot of what you're saying [ I don't think i'm meant to, that's why it's good: you're trying to write through some points, which by the way, Marx did as well... he wrote for many many pages to find out 'what it means', he understood by 'writing his way through it', it's a good way of thinking, dunon what it works but it does] Anyways, what i'll say here is purely polemical and masturbatory.
You say "the best way to become pessimistic is to look at the world as it is."
But the best way to move forward (to a more just world - to the emancipatory messianic) is to get a good (read: Brilliant) sense of where the world is at in the present. Will it make us pessimistic? Most certainly - And shall the will of the strong find a way through the barrage of shit? Yes...
As I said to you before, the bitter, cynical, pessimistic mind is just one stage in the development of the intellect. Of course, the weak will fall at this hurdle, they'll cling to their pessimism all their lives; it'll keep them warm through the harsh, Gunma winter. But the strong intellect can use this pessimism - this ability to be critical of everyone and everything - to negate a thesis at every possible turn: and to use it finally in the negation of the negation (and that is the key, because the first negation will always be defeatist).
You say "People are designed to covet, take, and defile."
I think there is no 'origin/core/essence' - people arn't designed good, bad, covetous, or anything: they are, in the first instance, beyond good and evil. I could equally say that people are designed to cooperate etc etc, but the capitalist system and the technologies of governance push us to compete, to clash and conflict etc. But, I don't buy marxist-humanism either, because there is no 'essence'. So let me make this clear: fuck essentialist thinking (I feel like we've stepped back into the intellectual stone-ages).
I had something to write about love, but it seems like you're still musing through your thoughts on that, so I won't interrupt the process.
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