Let us exercise the imagination: a man, after much meditation on suicide, after careful consideration of all the torment he suffers, concludes that it is absolutely unjustifiable. He goes to a friend, with the faint hope that there is something he is not seeing, that his conclusions are based on an unknown error. The friend takes his time and begins to talk to him about the singing of the birds. Is it possible for the unfortunate man not to think it an insult? Let us now suppose a monk returning on foot from a long silent retreat. A lady comes up to him in the street and says she is afraid that it will rain and wet her clothes hanging on the clothesline. There is, again, a contrast so sharp that it seems to offer laughter as the only response. Well then: from this very banal contrast, is born a flower with black petals called misanthropy.
Tag: behavior
The Emissaries of Good Sense
So abundant and so ancient are the narratives that thoroughly expose the perverse and regular oppression operated by the majority against isolated, helpless individuals, who suffer like martyrs never to be unredeemed by history, that it seems absurd, even today, that majorities are considered to be emissaries of good sense. From this clamorous lie, one would expect men to rid themselves, even if out of necessity or shame. Curiously, the nonsense persists and grows stronger. How to justify it? Explain it, Carlyle! How to reconcile it with your theory of the burial of lies? It seems that, in this world, injustice does nothing but change its mask occasionally.
It Is Fabulous to Note That the Ordinary Man…
It is fabulous to note that the ordinary man, methodically doing what he does not want to do, does not live to use all his strength in an attempt to break this unpleasant cycle. It seems that the faculty of seeing possibilities has not been equally distributed among men. Very few are those who feel the pulse of dishonor in surrendering to the convenient. From this, what to conclude? … that it is natural to be beaten inert instead of moving in order to get rid of the blows? Oh, rational being!
Capitalism Has Imposed a Behavioral Philosophy…
Capitalism has imposed a behavioral philosophy that demands efficiency and professionalism in daily life. Anything different from this is abnormal, repulsive, contrary to the current dictatorship. It is necessary to answer e-mails, messages, return calls, and always and for everyone have the fake smile of a salesperson. A conduct based on the interest and concern with one’s own image—the others, always the others, the possible clients of an individual transformed into a company. From this comes the suppression of individuality: the action submits to what is convenient, annulling one’s own will. Practically, the being loses the recognition of himself, and with it the notion of importance and dignity. There does not seem to be a solution that does not start from complete exhaustion, which is converted into indifference and contempt for the world and gives rise to a behavior that horrifies the common person.