Diana and Boys,
This is a letter coming out of a special situation. It is "me" sitting in a
slow train back home from cologne where I have been at a fashion show.
I feel allthough I don't own a TV as if I watched really FAST choreographed
video clips for ten hours.
Anyway here we go -
Who exactly does hold a purely SOM position ?
Nearly everybody most of the time, considering the habits (biological and
social level) and actions in our western everyday life. To a still high but
somewhat lesser degree in our words.
SOM means to me in an everyday sense - " Beeing of the opinion that "me" is
separated from the objects (other beeings and things)". This goes for an
conscious and for an unconscious handling of SOM.
After reading Denis Poisons MD Free will & SOM post from 4th of feb. I
thought that the MOQ is replacing the " Me is separated from objects idea "
with " Me is an integrated part of an n-dimensional web". "n" as an infinite
number of different qualities.
Of course nobody, except for an certain bunch of
philosophers/philosophologists says,after waking up in the morning: " This
is "me" eating that object (egg)".
So let's put the aware and the unaware use of the SO split in the same
position. I find this reasonable because however You use the SO split You
end up the same.
IMO there is always an certain element of isolation/separation in everything
we say or do in our everyday life. And communication is, and this only
sometimes, a bridge to the other. The S/O split, (I leave the M because I'd
like to talk about everyman's today) is deeply embedded in the soc and int
pov's of our western civilization.
I do not see a strawman but I smell a taint of something rotten nearly
everything is saturated in. Saying it is a strawman, a position held by no
one is close but not really showing the point. It is a position hold by
everyone and nearly nobody is seeing the result of it. Ungrounded fear,
emptyness, despair.
A strawman is a puppet with a funny hat standing on a field, doing nothing.
It is standing for nothing. After a while it is not even scaring away crows.
Behind this symbol is a deadly, stagnation bringing force. Again like the
Victorians had there own.
There is only one thing the strawman and the S/O division have in common.
Both are tools which can only insufficiently fullfill the function they are
used (not made) for.
The strawman does not scare anybody except the really stupid birds for a
very short period of time. The S/O split is only good as a systemizing tool
for intellectual purposes. There is no use for this on any other level.
The good thing is that it gives the user a perspective view and distance to
the object he is dealing with. The bad thing is that it is so powerfull and
so easilly adaptable, that it easily gets misused in areas where logic is a
death force. It is so tempting because it promises that everything will be
taken care of by following an mechanistic plan.
Finding a solution and putting readymade results into categorized boxes is
fine for everything without any dynamic element in it. This is done- forget
it- next one, please. Using this absolutising way of doing things with
anything living is killing the living aspect of it (Dynamic Quality).
When the MOQ says, "things tend to happen in a certain way", this has the
gliding aspect of probability in it (which is GOOD), not the separating and
isolating aspect of freezing and securing developed static latches.
Most people I know are only happy when there is a total success.
F. e. yesterday a customer came into my shop and I asked him if he would
like to sign a petition to the city council regarding the establishing of an
endangered cultural center. He said it is no use. I said that it is no use
up to 98 %. He didn't sign allthough he found the idea good. A friend of
mine fell in love. She said that she would like to be together with this
man. I said: " Love him anyway as much as You can even if he does not come
to You ". She said either everything or nothing.
I can tell You thousands of similar examples and very few where " he would
have signed " - or " she would have loved him just because she found him
beautiful ".
IMO we use the S/O split, which is good for science to let our greed run
free ("everything or nothing, and 'nothing' means loss or even a little
death) - and it does not fullfill us, it even lets us feel more hollow. Lots
of people jump from success to success and they never ever enjoy themselves.
The S/O split is a split which cuts the sensational experience in pieces.
Looking - jumping - landing or falling and so on in a deathbringing downward
spiral.
Suddenly I think about going out and killing some platypii.
Why are there only bad or tired, prematurely grown old social workers ? They
either "jump" and now whats going on with their "clients", giving up their
distance and loose to much energy in everyday life. Or they do nothing and
only maladminister the people.
Left alone, both.
The subject/object split is a matter of extreme positions, considering the
emotions involed - This has nothing to do with real life and tiny
beginnings.
The same person "me" realizing that we all are connected via this
n-dimensional net can form an synthesis by repairing the deeply planted S/O
view mistake with an intellectulal projection.
Beeing aware that one is not isolated from the people one takes care of
changes the kind of respect for the caretaken person.
Beeing aware, that there is a never ending connection in this human life
net,changes the idea from a separated "absolute solution and then next
please because we got so much to do today" to increasing the probability of
benevolent changes in a situation where everybody is part of.
You are always changing your position in the net and in the same moment you
touch and change the quality of the area.
Ÿhm... Please make me right if I'm wrong.
Who completly denies the existence of quality ? - People which don't/cannot
sense any difference any more due to lack of energy and extreme isolation.
The more you sense the difference in the area you inhabit, the more you
live/love.
If nobody or very few people. Who or what are we criticizing ? - We are
criticizing a smell coming from people with cups full of cold tea. Written
on the teacup is " I feel O.K. " but there is rarely a smile in their eyes.
Thanks for coming arround,
Andreas
MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
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