The seeds of grandeur, superiority and other negativism such as pride are ingrained with superficial living…. perpetuating a mode of being where what emerges about is that the subject airing or displaying a sense of being above and beyond; that somehow one is better than every other and above and that one knows whilst the rest needs be in subjugation. Others are dismissed per se and in doing so the bourgeois ideology thrives about.Interesting that the espousal of such a state of being means that that this air of delusion that one is way above any other is about and around as a means to get on top of the other who may have acquiesced via this fragmented mode is a recipe to have that state of affair continuing. It is kind of running at all times from the seeing who one is, and or being that which one is not to that aspect of the fact than one after all plays above the other. Or a kind of competition at outdoing the other….where success comes about at the belittling, denigration or simple ignoring of others! To be sure, a mindset of those who leads a life of superficiality and no more needs one observe.
Or that one have a licence to decide what those around and about us may do. That it is very much a question of adopting and taking some side and holding on to that way which trample upon others with the latter being no more meant to be subservient to oneself and our way of being. One wonders what else may need to happen or order for the naïve to come to one’s senses. What does it take for the other to see that one is after all twined,that is bounded in life where all one does is one’s duty of being… and whilst performing such a task is nothing more or else than one than any other. One is bound in a network of condemnation of being and in any attempt to make this unpalatable for any other will have its consequences in due course. In this way whether one is more abled or otherwise is not itself a licence to vent an air that one is above and beyond or adopt that delusion of grandeur attitude or being in bad faith as an existentialist may remark. For Sartre, the idea of being what one is not is all about us and each one follows a pattern of being at seeking to trample on others with the subject never being who one is but always being who one is not, a kind of a pettiness where that sense of duty towards even oneself is lost in a whirl of pretence.
This pretence mode provides one with a sense of pride and whilst doing so;it takes one to an erroneous level of undue pride and false of security where the person lives in a zone of always playing a role. There is no pause button and or a reflection on the self. It is all about throwing in that air of existence which deny in the process any other its sense of being. The model that one operates is one of the mundane from a world which always creates division.Or about me and the the other where the latter is whisked aside at very moment. One lives in as per a model of seeking to outdo and no more.
That there is more to life than just doing one’s material chores may never be even contemplated as the arrogant continues to thrive carrying that veil which calls on all others to adopt that senseless way where the material remains at the core of life. There is no meeting point. One never sees cruelty, or that hatred is at the core but verily that it is all about survival. Life begins at the other side of despair observed Camus or one is entangled in that hatred, and fragmented norm where any other is seen as a lesser being. A question of survival in the jungle of despair and when challenges forces one to be at a crossroad there is simply a surrender in that one may never witness that form or way of being which is beyond the veil of the material. With the mundane taking over, there is a blind acceptance that historical baggages are how life may be. Or very much thriving and or living in a model which is fixed in a fragmented mode whether this emanates from the secular or religious or a mixture of these two where there is hatred, anger, envy and violence at the core verbal or otherwise.
How may one make sense and or rather be sensible rather carrying on playing a certain role? How to be free from what one is not? Or is one condemned to be via the way of the superficial? The epsilon way of being and other even progressive delta or beta is no relief to borrow Orwellian terms…..as one perpetuates that same air of opposites of inferiority and superiority about and around the self, an almost justification to carry on being what one is not. Entangled in that trauma pool of materialism no escape may be seen from the worldly way but a mere adjustment here and there but only keep at that level where one resides at a fixation mode where that salience of one’s being takes over in essence instead of moving onwards and seeking to be free and delve in life as per the dialectics. Sure, it is a question of perceiving things as they are. And in so doing how about just be the observer rather than adds undue hatred or cause despair to any other ! Must one always adopt and apply a model of the known which denigrates at least some other? Need one carry on with one’s superficial style denying others existence?
Is transcendence simply a religious way of justifying one’s shortfall in that on the hand one may carry on engaging in pride, arrogance, conceit? Or may one moves onwards from that frailty norm towards attempting to be more than the superficial? …….where simplicity, non violence, freedom from anger, tranquility, gentleness and forgiveness not to say compassion for all living entities let alone other humans becomes a life mission.Can transcending all barriers and linking one to the other nay every other in truth not just as an intellectual exercise whereby one sees verily?Now, is it or could this possible? To be sure, not a plain question of a yes and no but that which surely would make one moves away from that which is merely mundane. Are we ready?