To live at the superficial or mundane level means that one is for ever in the realm of the material where life is measured in terms of the strictly temporal, where one contents oneself with mostly the idea of eat, drink and be merry and seek pleasures and nothing else. It is all about fun, fun in this, that and the other. Add fun to something and one is awake. Play, play and play and keep within this realm of amusements and or let’s have enjoyment unlimited will be the cry. There is not even a halt to consider what is fun, so long as the word is used it suffices but in truth one’s person fun may be verily a bore to the other. But then at least there are thousands if not more of these attempting to cater for the fun aspect of being.
Where this is not so, life takes another turn with desperate attempts at trying to get back to those ways of seeking pleasures for its own sake where there is a tendency to adopt that happiness may be or should be the motto that each and everyone readily intention themselves towards. Or it is no more but based on frivolous way of being…where gratification of other senses takes the limelight if only one witnesses how it is so fashioned. In a way, happiness becomes the measure of being, where life is measured at plain gratification of senses nonstop and in many ways which leads the vulgar to seek doing achieving this aspect by whatever means necessary, whilst the bourgeois and other sophisticated others seek these modes of enjoying through a more accepted norm but all the same no more than mere seeking after pleasures whether done so-called sensibly or otherwise.
Or it is very much about a me-ism..Any deviation from that norm and suffering emerges, with people unsure what to do. Not that we were ever sure of what to do as one lives as per the reactionary mode of being where what matters is aspects of a way based on routine on pleasures or fun.
Everything needs to be related to fun. Take this away and soon moroseness creeps in, with desperation to seek and or demand to get to the point where that blunt superficiality reigns where to be sure, all is about a way which seeks to engage at that platform best noted for its hatred of facticity but a love for that which is transient. … as long as benefits aren’t added on to oneself and who cares. All a question of simply survival to achieve and modern societies has created lots of legalised massacres outlets to help the individual seeks to keep in line with a style aim at prodding amusements, pleasures and fun based on that superficial way of being.
The way of the non reflective paves the way of creating an aura about leading an under par existence. Their being moving about and or concentrating on fun is that all important element in any relationships or similar endeavour, educational, social or otherwise. …with the only time where that may not be the case is when is on. To be on, means that one is not quite oneself but somehow the individual ‘knows what is wanted on towards a futuristic mode of making it all non real. That the non genuine takes precedence is clear with the idea of make believe at the core as if life is so dominated by these facets which takes one away from reality. It is a deliberate moving or running away rather than facing facts. When all these are taken away as one is forced into submission through fear of being a victim and yet some societies cares little about its population and or they think that the way to be is to try and reinvent life as it was through forcing one’s way back which would simply not do as more and more victims will fall away. … becoming a prey to the blatant mundane aspects of being.
To be sure, as one continues to live within the perimeters of the universal lockdown, the world faces a dilemma at what to do or not do to be precise whilst it seeks to recover from the kind of unprecedented disaster the world has ever seen.One cries at how it all was and then had it all taken away albeit for a little while or at least two months so far. During this period, quite a lot has happened around and about almost everywhere in every corner of the earth so to speak.
There seems that we are heading towards a way of certain non certainty around, with confidence at its lowest ebb. Even if this be so, there is still a resounding call to seek and carry on being entangled in a form of life which revolves in and around superficiality. Or it is that search for a way which keeps putting oneself above and beyond every other as is the norm in spite of the call to go move beyond halt. Material life creates a way of being which characterise its fluidity of being in that all is at turned upside down in a realm which is for ever in transient mode. Even so, the mundane twist to find a way to search for amusement and enjoyment as holding on u the norm to keep forging ahead with the fun based on eating, drinking and merry…ing about unlimited Where one takes this approach of the superficial way, all one sees are those salience merging. If one uses this as a plan, happiness is only around the corner. It goes in the form of desiring something and it often turns out to be the case than not as there is clear onwards movement about actualising that through one’s desire, a desire to be that which one wants. There are diverse strategies which verges on the temporal and or trying to make the trap of the temporal a viable way of being. From adopting a certain way based on a choice which one faces to thinking that ‘my’ way is better when pitted against the other is all too obvious. This is where conceit and arrogance takes over with little cooperation about. There is a lack of trying to perceive that one is also part of that big mess about or that one knows. The process is simply try to make mends reactively, frivolously rather than proactively. The reader may well ask ………..how does one get out of this entanglement?