Here is where the damn thing crows. Because we are lavished with narrow-mindedness there is no aspect of reality that is not based on dogmatic behavior. We are monsters of the sweetness of the moment, we create the reality that is conjured by our mind’s eye by filtering everything through a singular conception. We are the world, the world is us, what we believe is the world is what the world is, we are not wont to think otherwise. The world responds to our stimuli and gives us a half baked idea of what it is. Generations are singular structures. At a supra level humanity is a singular structure; the difference of the whole is so insignificant that it can only be viewed with a microscope.
It is not that we can not see, it is that we are blinded by our visions of ourselves. We are unable to conquer the self, and the self makes us a slave to its heart felt emotions. These in turn recreate the external world, or rather rearrange its furniture to meet our preconceptions. We don’t stumble into the furniture not because we are not blind to its true reality but rather because we keep on moving it around as we walk so as to meet ourselves everywhere we go. One would imagine that after a while this would get boring, and yet, yet it does not, not because it inst boring to keep on discovering yourself over and over ad infinitum, but rather because what you lose in surprise you gain in the comfort of familiarity. Its really that extremely fanatically simple.
While most philosophers have been impressed with the discovery of the self it might be more worthy to consider the dissolution of the self and its declared importance. The problem with the unit of self is that its importance is generated at a cost to everything else. Further it is evident that the self exist and that it acknowledges itself above all things, this is today’s current extreme reality, you do not see beyond yourself essence, you are not able to live in worlds that are not populated by you, the possibility of exceeding your self essence is difficult to believe and substantiate; one would have to first accept the possibility that the self can be disembodied from its core being and still have perception. Unlikely, and a fairly uncomfortable approach, you cant just be undoing yourself all the time. But if not doable then what might we try to accomplish or why would we try?
First the discovery of the self by philosophers was not a fantastic discovery instead it was an inevitable discovery and that it took them so long is cause for alarm and fact evidence of the lack of intuitiveness in philosophy. Its difficult for a being not to find itself. It is next to impossible for a being not to say “I think therefore I am.” This is what every child learns by the age of twelve, philosophy itself is an adolescent contrivance meant and designed to deal with adolescent behavior. Consider existentialism, what is existentialism more than a twelve year old that cant over come himself. Take hedonism, hedonism is a child’s wishing well. You get philosophy when you hit a wall. You get philosophy when you stumble into a pause in your existence. You get philosophy when you are disconnected. When you are restricted you discover yourself philosophy. There is only a few zillion things rubbing against you all the time and these things tend to believe in themselves without thinking about it, they acknowledge themselves with impervious impunity and they cause you to doubt your own existence and you get philosophical.
“Why do I exist?” “Why is life worth living?” and that sort of things are merely the product of a conflict, conflict which you get only when you hit something which is what everything does in the universe all the time. But the discovery of the external identity of things, now that has been more difficult, you cant really believe in the secularity of the universe without costing yourself a lot of emotional turmoil. The problem is that you cant create a secular comprehension of the universe without first subtracting yourself from the universe; the pain of that separation is so much that any construct that you make of the universe will have to entail your own image; the reason for this its because your own image is the only thing you are familiar with, it is the only thing which you truly acknowledge, it is the most difficult thing to kill off, your own image! And so the familiarity you have with yourself contaminates your secular philosophies of the universe and you only have the YOU view of the universe and you don’t want to accept that because without objectivity the whole universe becomes largely incomprehensible. You have to be able to study the universe, you cant study yourself because your mind is not going to tell you who or what you are, it cant! This is the extreme view, you are inwardly trapped, outwardly encouraged and suffer a high preservation handicap.
Objectification is then an extreme view of yourself and the self entities which have managed to congregate in your vicinity, all objectification is focused and local by nature, it is what a bunch of things or beings acquire when they all get together to think the same subjective reality. If it makes you more comfortable the universe is an extreme agglomeration of perceived grandiosity. Humanity is self centered and extremely objectified in escaping its self essence but helpless in doing so because the gravity of self is a black hole and there is no escape from that singularity.
I don’t know any other way of saying it so I hope you forgive my directness, but the universe and everything in it is wholly self absorbed, we are the only creatures in the universe that do not accept that self absorption; we want objectivity to absolve us of our subjectivity; we want objectivity to renounce us; crazy, but that is what we want. Fortunately for us the universe and everything in it is not unreasonable, they, it and all only care about themselves!
