Knowledge is about understanding the what is. Or to be able to analyse adopt and see what unfolds in front of us. Essentially this translates in the understanding of what needs doing or not doing. It is about being alert and able to discriminate our in-situation in life.
The call is important as one is not coerced or governed at the level of materialism which rejects others for what they are. It is an appreciation of what is unfolded, a way to apprehend that all others have a right to be and that is inclusive of all species or goes beyond humanoids.
To be sure in this mode of being one is simply not following a so called ‘good system’ and or adopt a routine non-reflective life. The point is very much a question of pausing, stopping and being reflective!
In such a reflective spirit one readily looks at life not from a perspective but attempts to do so from every other perspective… including non-humanoids ones! Whether this is a viable way of being is for the reader to decide.
This mode calls us to be in tune with all aspects of life and be ever ready to question one’s being as a perennial exercise in case we dip into dullness or simply act as automaton. The test to be conscious at all times or have that understanding not to delve into mere actions without reflection or being mere reactionaries. As reactionaries one depends on others for our being. And like chemicals one reacts upon being in contact. And such reactions are simply ways which makes one often acts in ways which instils seeds of hatred about. Hatred shown to the other whilst ignoring if the reverse was to be done how might the actor feels. The rationale of the vulgar is that it is a case and always a case of survival of the fittest would say the latter echoing that brute force is indeed the way to be. Such type antisocialism of course is not relevant in communities generally but those who adopts such trends attempt to justify their partial actions as they would clearly identify with perhaps a group as against another. And so they may say it is fine to do so in spite of the fact that they may just have adopted as their motto the ways of the jungle where the strongest annihilates the weak and frail.
In doing so one may become violent verbally, physically or in other ways. One becomes a reactionary subject full of emotions and due to this often one may become passionate with abundance of desires. In that mode of being one loses one’s ways of being and so is full of negativism to the extent that others may be viewed as the cause of their inspiration to wager fear and hatred about.
Whereas on the one hand one may become dull and so just be there at all time at the mercy of the few who are reactionaries who may use the dull to seek or pursue their objectives at either coercing and or conning others but for their own narrow objectives.
There are others who despite being above and beyond the pettiness of life may find the ways of materialism as a desired mode to follow and so in spite of understanding still succumbed to a life which may make use of others towards a predefined zeal where some others are excluded.
They are the sophisticated type who does not fall to the level of the superficial and has some comprehension of the what is but still uses all their abilities to affix the world from a certain perspective where some others are still excluded. They may be referred to as those who readily fit within the realm of the known. In spite of being reactionaries they are the cautious type who follows not the way of the jungle: Indeed, they extend their sympathies to the downtrodden and sometimes even extending a hand of friendship.
In dullness mode one simply exist…. either as consumers or reactionaries. In both ways one cares but for itself and shows or have no concern. It is a lazy way of being where one by default simply lives at the level of an automaton where one follows a system or any system and happily carry on indulging in partial ways in which one is caught. That ‘opium’ ranges from sport or doing pseudo activities as propounded by the elites to the thousands of set activities which one simply engages in a passive mode. With modern technology one again is misled as if there are skills to be learnt. Yet unless one rises and awake and question what we have to do in life there can never be an escape from being an automaton. In a sense modern societies have condemned us to so be!
To be free and alert to the facticity of life is to be able to have an adopt an above and beyond-ness which makes no other suffer. It is not simply about understanding but a kind of praxis which both challenges and engages the self.
It is indeed a call to reflect …call it meditate… not for an end which makes just oneself better but of that kind of action which engages body mind and spirit in a synergy of being where each and everyone matters. It is an adoption of a consciousness which is to be sure not about following a certain system but placing that system in Q if it excludes any other.
The Q of course being is there such a system which may be non-exclusive towards one and all. If this is so perhaps one may adopt and or espouse this in order to move forward and lead such a life which is not dependent of being reactionaries. Aldous Huxley too warned us already of how one may be mere automatons. Should one simply exist in a placid mode? What one may easily witness about us are no more than a way of life which has all the ingredients of people seeking and adopting dullness and or other categories as hinted above.
To be sure the call herewith is to awake from a dormant position of non-creativity towards awakening. In such a mode of being one may not be governed by the modes of opposites which characterise and effect our way to be in that either we fall prey and or prey on others for ‘our’ being, groups, ideologies, families or nations.
In summary one may ask the reader to reflect on how may one be free from leading automatons type existence? In essence, what is it to be creative rather than inactive? How may one contribute in actively rather than passively. Sure the call is to awake, and reflect and moving on in a mode of cooperation with others…..where every other is valued not just verbally but actually!