Dialectics and Ego, War and Freedom

 Sides exist. Look at this jewel. One jewel, may sides.

One of the features of being an existing being with an existing brain and senses is that we get a particular perspective on the world. In a room of people looking at this ruby no two people will see the same thing. It's impossible because we all stand in different places. And so it goes for the brain that works behind the senses. We all have different history and experiences, we all have different DNA, we all stand in different places so we will have different contents to our minds.

But all this is fine. Its what comes from existing.

The problem comes when we hold on this existence as though it was fixed and permanent. This is also called ego. Its not a "thing" its an attitude.

Its like there is only one way to see the Jewel, or we argue there is a best way to see the jewel, or we argue that we have grasped the truth of the jewel.

Not that arguments can't happen. But its when we hold tightly to a particular view that we have ego.

Its interesting in Ukraine right now. The world has yet another war. There is a new war for every month of the year it seems. And in each war some people see things one way and some another way. This is obviously true because some people are shooting one way, and some the other way. and of course some people are not shooting.

And people can get really worked up about this. They can hold so tightly to their way of seeing things they are even prepared to die and kill for it! How foolish are they when they rot in the ground for having held so tightly to something!

But politicians are a special type of person. Their job is to make people hold tightly to one side. And in making people hold onto one side, they get people to hold onto their side. And when people are holding onto their side then they gain power. This is all that politics is.

How different is this view of politics from Plato. For Plato a politician was an ecstatic individual who could step outside themselves to grasp at the emerging future and present this to the people. A political speech for Plato brought the perfect world of the Forms within reach of ordinary people. It was a poetic and spiritual experience.

Well there are 2 views of politics to show that it has many faces.

But hopefully the very possibility of people having different perspectives on things should encourage anyone who reads this to never even consider using a weapon or ever try to harm another person. well they can consider it, but don't hold too tightly its literally never the only way. It isn't worth it. You don't have to protect any point of view. Its not yours! And if you meet people who believe so strongly in things that they cannot ever change their mind, they are the losers. Let them hug those stone perspectives as they rot in the grave, when they are no longer a person who can make sense of the perspective.

Better to practice freedom now, because that is all you will have when your body, sense and brain are gone.

And how brilliantly messed up those politicians who try to get you on their side by then asking you to fight for freedom. This is like dropped the jewel and having it shatter into a million pieces. Such a political speech is pure meaningless chaos.