Bruce Lee

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."


The Continuum Concept
"I was once astonished to see a Yequana take it into his head to climb to the top of the hill overlooking the village to pound a drum and shout at the top of his lungs for a good half-hour before his impulse was satisfied. He felt like doing it for reasons of his own and did it without any apparent concern for what the neighbours would think, though it was not a 'done thing'. My own surprise was because I had never questioned my society's unwritten law that sane members of the community inhibit their odd or 'irrational' impulses in order to avoid being feared or mistrusted.

As a corollary of this rule in our culture, the most celebrated, accepted persons among us - him stars, pop stars, figures like Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Gandhi - have a licence to dress and behave in far less conforming ways than they could have permitted themselves before they became well enough known to be above suspicion. Even the tragic aberrations of a Judy Garland were somehow not as frightening to the public as the same sort of behaviour would have been in a neighbour, for she was a celebrity, approved by millions of others, so there was no fear in accepting whatever she did. One did not have to rely upon one's own doubtful ability to judge and accept."

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"It is perhaps also an expression of their fulfilled personalities that they feel so little need to make judgements upon one another and can so easily accept individual differences. It is observable among us as well that the more frustrated, the more alienated, people are, the more they feel they must judge and distinguish between others as acceptable or unacceptable either on a personal basis or in groups, as in religious, political, national, racial, sexual or even age conflict. Self-hate, resulting from not having been given the sense of one's own rightness in infancy, is, of course, a major basis for irrational hatred of others."

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Dictatura "publicului". In primul rand - publicul nu exista. Il creeam, ne imaginam ca facem parte din el, apoi impunem altora ce ne imaginam ca trebuie sa creada acest "public"...Si totul vine de la inceput, din "educatie".

Indraznim sa ne numim o "societate". Fiecare se uita in jur speriat, atent la orice gest - care ar putea parea "ciudat" "publicului". Dar daca toata lumea face asta, atunci de cine se feresc ? "Acceptarea" nu are cum sa vina din conformare - decat pentru Borgi poate. Exista si extrema cealalta - "acceptam orice, suntem sfinti"... Pentru ca daca nu e una e cealalta... Dincolo de astea.
Dictatura publicului nu exista pentru oamenii liberi. Nici dictatura vreunui om. Nici dictatura implicita - aia care sa-i oblige sa-si "vanda viata pentru a trai". Si unii mai si spun "cum adica oamenii nu sunt liberi" ? Au voie sa faca asta. De placere o fac, de rai ce sunt, maniaci care alearga dupa bani si distrug planeta! 1 miliard de oameni nu au acces la apa curata, 2 miliarde locuiesc in "slums", si ni se spune ca aia e placerea lor, sa distruga planeta.
Nu au acces direct la lucrurile de baza - dictatura implicita, si vor face orice le spune oricine - pentru bani/supravietuire. Dar ei sunt "liberi'. Sa nu aud ca "nu se poate - sa aiba toti lucrurile de baza"... Uitati-va in jur. Cu energia si munca incluse in contructia unei singure cladiri de birouri (care sta goala si unii stau pe-afara, e "criza") - cate lucruri simple absolut necesare puteau fi obtinute ? Dar cu energia si munca incluse in constructia unui portavion nuclear? Asta ca exemplu, adica e posibil. Sa nu aud de problemele care ar apare intr-o asemenea lume unde toti au ce le trebuie. Se schimba mult mai multe lucruri decat ni se pare la prima vedere.

http://paimei02.blogspot.com/2010/04/economie-echilibrata-abing.html

http://www.egansanders.com/archives/no_when_no_want.html

"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. "