What Humanity Is
Previously I had posted here about wanting to run away and keep running. As I put it,
"[...]to find the soul of People as a whole, and leave before it can see me true."
The problem with this, is when you look into the soul of People as a Whole, you find that you are, in fact, looking into your own soul. As much as we try to be individuals, as much as we try to "go against the flow," we are all people, we all contribute to what humanity is. Running away from stress, to find out who people really are is only a quest to find who we, as individuals, truly are.
This shows how easy it is for a solipscist to think that they are the only real person, and all that goes on around them is either a figment of their imagination, or only real because it pertains to them.
This is ironic inandof itself because we all look to others to find out about ourselves. We may think we are learning something for someone else, but truly, when you go to medical school so you can learn to save your mother, or keep anyone else in your family from succumbing to an illness of this sort, you are truly only seeking control for yourself. You seek the power to keep bad things from happening to you, through the people you love, because if the people you love get hurt, that hurts you.
"[...]to find the soul of People as a whole, and leave before it can see me true."
The problem with this, is when you look into the soul of People as a Whole, you find that you are, in fact, looking into your own soul. As much as we try to be individuals, as much as we try to "go against the flow," we are all people, we all contribute to what humanity is. Running away from stress, to find out who people really are is only a quest to find who we, as individuals, truly are.
This shows how easy it is for a solipscist to think that they are the only real person, and all that goes on around them is either a figment of their imagination, or only real because it pertains to them.
This is ironic inandof itself because we all look to others to find out about ourselves. We may think we are learning something for someone else, but truly, when you go to medical school so you can learn to save your mother, or keep anyone else in your family from succumbing to an illness of this sort, you are truly only seeking control for yourself. You seek the power to keep bad things from happening to you, through the people you love, because if the people you love get hurt, that hurts you.
posted by Hadrian: Dark One at 1:31 AM
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