Although it is a fifth-rate topic, investigating the origin of the political ideologies that run in the mouths of the masses teaches a bit about the moral corruption of man. The perversity and cynicism of those who give birth to ideologies is astonishing to the most hardened of moralists. Control freaks, experts in the very efficient science of lying, have stripped politics of any morality and turned it into the simple art of machination. It is surprising to see them, with absolute impudence, proclaiming false narratives that cover the vilest interests and that effectively condemn to misery those they ask for—and get!—support. It is a depravity without limits. Instructive, however, as it teaches how low man can sink.
Tag: philosophy
Intolerance of Small Mistakes…
Intolerance of small mistakes and small defects necessarily leads to isolation. The world, if taken too seriously, wages a declared war against the intransigent spirit. Such a war aims at nothing more than making it clear: accept the world as it is, or forever punch walls. And the disappointments that pile up, the expectations that repeatedly fail, the perfection that always seems fanciful, all of this corrodes the spirit and could be avoided. The best thing, without a doubt, is to expect nothing.
Productive Afflictions
It is ironic to observe that, in most cases, freedom does not produce good fruits when, on the other hand, the desire for freedom is one of the most potent propellers of the human spirit. Man, in order to be productive, seems to need a state that prohibits inertia out of simple necessity. And all the affliction that comes from the awareness of one’s own dependence, all the psychological torture that springs from this impossible desire for liberation, seem profitable after all! It is quite true that the time devoted to the necessary always seems more than tolerable; but there is no doubt that the mind used to continuous agitation, which draws its action from dissatisfaction with its circumstances, works more and better simply because it has become more active and vigorous—even if for, say, not very noble reasons.
The Man Whose Life Expresses His Inner Motivation…
Zimmermann already noticed, two centuries in advance, what would be proved theoretically and practically by Frankl:
Une forte résolution et ce désir d’atteindre un grand but peuvent nous rendre supportables les douleurs les plus aiguës.
If, on the one hand, a man seized by emptiness highlights his fragility on a daily basis, a man whose life expresses his inner motivation, whose steps seem to him justified, full of meaning, this man seems of an entirely different kind. It is as if he has, all his life, trained himself for war, for deprivation, and for pain. Nothing seems able to shake him. He has erected, with long and patient effort, an impenetrable psychological fortress. Life has become clear to him, and the same sense of priorities that guides him prevents him from succumbing to the less important. What to the first is the end of the line, to him is a new opportunity for affirmation.