Thursday, 2 October 2025

The ignorance embedded in basic concept of society

I'm forming the opinion that "organisations" do not exist so much for "profit" or "use" as excuses for society.

People use projects as focal points of social organisation and thus form social structures, hierarchies and cliques around these nuclei. But the actual objects of condensation are not important.

Now it seem to me getting out of these vortexes is a good thing. They are pointless; activity for its own sake.

But why do they form. What is the attraction?

Perhaps initially we are tricked into think the focus of the vortex is the point. But quickly it becomes apparent that the decisions made do not so much achieve the goals explicitly declared as to turn the vortex.

Why should people be attracted to this?

Well provisionally it seems it may be something to do with validation and existence of self.

The best kept secret in the West is Buddha's "Anatta" that on inspection the self does not exist as a discrete entity in the world. It is just a conceptual entity used by the brain to label what in reality is just a swirling body of its own vortex.

Once we get clear on this we do not seek the maintain this fake entity.

Now perhaps the purpose of these self-supporting and self-fulfilling vortexes is to provide some objective entity that makes people believe their self has some foundation. But it is all just noise.

So this kind of society driven by a need to mutually externalise a belief in self is actually just illusion.  


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