Off to get basic training -- it's a party doncha know?
Off to get basic training -- it's a party doncha know?
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Off to get basic training -- it's a party doncha know? -
Ode to Lion laager0Add a comment
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The fact is all societies are formed by violence.
In the beginning of Rhodesia, the British authorities hanged a female prophet called Nehanda. She was causing people to rise up against the colonial regime and was powerful witch.
After that, the regime was established, but also on the basis of its own powerful witchcraft.
Basically, on internalized values under pain of death.,
When I am confronting the restrictions to my thought, I am confronting one of those brutal army special forces guys. I just feel “wrong” when I do this, and inwardly shattered.
Every time it is the same. I oppose this system within myself and it shatters me. I feel doomed. I feel like I have sealed my fate on the level of FATE, which means that someone is going to inform me that someone I care about is dead.
I fear retribution at a metaphysical level.
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Perhaps even the majority of people absolutely have a reading and perception problem or just want to be something they are not. I just received a comment on my YouTube channel by someone who is sick.This sickness afflicts the vast majority. The man said in effect: “I subscribed to you but we have nothing in common. There is nothing on my YouTube channel for you. I just wanted to mark your video of that of a typical female talking about gynocentric society. As you mentioned something about Rhodesia, Zimbabweans should have something to fear from your then.”In other words: “I am attracted to you, but I can only stick you with pins. I confess I really wouldn’t have the faintest clue what you are talking about, except for my vague notions of identity. I happened to recognize you were female -- that was clear. I also noted you come from a place that most people would immediately put down as racist. Why did you reciprocate by subscribing to me in kind? I have nothing! I AM nothing! But pins I do have – and I’ll stick them into you.”This is the mental illness of the majority. And because it is not translated, in the way I have translated it, people feel it ought to be accommodated as part of the glorious mix that makes up our “civilization”.And, to be frank, a version of this attack is an experience I’ve had again and again. “We’re attracted to you! Come over to our side!” But when I reciprocate just a little (in this case by simply returning the favor and subscribing to this fellow’s YouTube), the viciousness and vindictiveness comes out.Then they often get someone in officialdom to back them and to caution me to “stop being strange”.And this is the form of passivity we really should be afraid of. The majority can no longer read, or even take in information presented to them in visual/verbal form. They are supremely passive and supremely needy, but they feel something humiliating in having to reciprocate or perhaps in having to be “seen” by someone who is not like them.Self-knowledge is the only antidote – the only “muti” (it means tree medicine) – against this kind of onslaught, for if I had not known myself so well, I might have thought this fellow was expressing some legitimate fear of me, or at least something that could be overcome by clearing up some “misunderstanding”.I would not have understood, as I now do, that the “misunderstanding” is deliberate on his part and necessary. He has created it so as to form a buffer between me and him, which would protect his sense of weakness from my actual strength of character. To remove this buffer by proclaiming it a “misunderstanding” is the last thing he wants. He has put it there for a reason, because smallness cannot have self-respect when largeness sees it for what it is.So the deepest interpretation of his comment is: “I’m going to set up a ‘misunderstanding’ and I hope you will respect it. I’m tiny and you’re large. We have nothing in common. I can comprehend identity, but only a little bit. I am afraid of you, so please respect my space.”:And this is wisdom – to be able to read what somebody is really saying, based on personal experience and knowledge and to preserve the boundaries they have set up.
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Take the statement, “My main impression” or its variant “What I see is...”.In Western culture, these statements have authority. In Eastern culture, not so much. And where there is already an established hierarchy, not so much.The Westerner wants to proclaim his impressions because it is presumed that seeing, itself, has some kind of mystical validation.The thing is, it’s a bluff in a way, or at any rate mostly an unconscious (unthought-through) bluff.One “sees” something – but unless the power relations make that seeing efficacious (in other ways than just “seeing”), one may as well not see anything at all.So it is really the power relations that underpin and lend validity to any kind of seeing, which we should be interested in.---The psychological blind spots that pertain to a Western style of seeing comes from an implicit positivism.One “sees” something – and consequently one imagines that this is all there is to see. Or, perhaps there is actually something more (a rare concession from a Westerner), but this has to do with passively making oneself open to having more insights.It’s one-sided and therefore (only to that degree) delusional.----What one sees is, after all, not simply “what is there” or even “what one is capable of seeing”, but also what the other ALLOWS you to see.And that is why all attempts to dominate a self-aware person are doomed from the start.If I allow you (generic) to see something of me and you abuse that opportunity, I can immediately retract that permission by making sure you see less in future and that the information you had gained is not longer relevant – especially in the particular gestalt or compilation you have made of it.All abuses of trust form an impetus to move beyond what one had been before. (It’s a bit like changing the locks.)-----I have the capacity for extreme fluidity but I don’t always use it – perhaps because I don’t require you to “see” it.----Am I a master or a slave?I am the British colonial personality, but with some modifications, something as young mechanics used to say, “Suped up”. I am, almost never, what I ‘seem’.----I like the Japanese use of silences. What is not said is sometimes more important than what is said.
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It can be a good thing to not have everything worked out from the start. Handicaps can be advantages in some ways.Bataille, for instance, sees Nietzsche as being a significant human marker for being very confused and bewildered about things – in a sense, not knowing which way is up.He said this kind of thing only happens very rarely.To be in a position of not knowing what others already take for granted is to have to find one’s answers for oneself. It really is a privileged situation.
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