How can one be free if the slightest inattention exposes a vivid need that seems inherent to the human condition itself? That is to say: without constant monitoring, an uninterrupted rational action, and the brain barring the shameful manifestations of dependence and consciously treading its own path, the human being adopts a posture of total insufficiency. And they will have to fantasize to find value where there is no independence…
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Personality is demarcated by choices. And, of course, the lack of personality is the inability to choose. I admit it is cozy to have the medium as an architect of reality: this is no less than exempting oneself from any responsibility. However, it is assuming submission, evidencing a myopic and very limited understanding of existence. Raskolnikov is not the corollary of an unjust and oppressive medium, but the portrait of a conscious action and its consequences. It is good to remember Viktor Frankl: the human being is the reaction to circumstances; the final act vetoes any response, but the rest of the piece will always give way to action.
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Antipathetic to work, sometimes denying it, it is incredible to notice how the mind is stimulated to toil for procrastination. If there is no reason, it finds: because it wants to postpone it, it must postpone it immediately. Tomorrow, the day after: not now. And so wrecks the productivity. What could be done, is not. The little bit that, added up over many days, would become something robust is lost in the smoke of idleness. I think the phrase is from some philosopher; if not, let it go from me: there are cases that, fatally, demand violence.
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It is amazing to see that exactly in the century immediately following the eruption of the geniuses of modern psychology, the so-called “motivational therapy” is so successful. “Overcoming problems”: this is the impossibility—when we consider real psychological traumas—transformed into a product in the marketing era. When the means for a drastic deepening in the understanding of the psychology of the human being, of the origin of traumas arise, and when there is the possibility of using cognition to alleviate their unwanted effects, reduce their means of action—and never overcome them, eliminate them—man turns his back on knowledge and opts for the path of childhood, exchanges analytical prudence for happy psychology, psychology whose practice is summed up in “thinking positive” and acting like a child in the face of the traumas that overwhelm, sometimes without emitting a signal. Everything seems evidence that geniuses, when they appear, do it in vain…
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