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SCHOOL OF THOUGHT - letters for a radical change, by
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT - letters for a radical change, by "Marco and TheBMK"
The Third

Dear Malita,

thank you for everything, every word. Thank you especially for being that clear-minded and self-aware. Being clear is what I at least can feel sometimes about myself, but guess I am probably not.

They way you put it reminds me on the philosophical side of our quest. The School of Thought is a target which needs interdisciplinary reflections and a kind of metatheory. Wether we call it philosophy or else, I dont care. Surely we have to be aware that we are looking for something beyond different fractions of science and beliefs.

But to get any closer I deeply feel a nessecity of building a kind of fundament for our idea, even though I dont believe in the construction of mental skyscrapers, we definitly need a solid ground to walk on. I also feel that this attempt is a crucial point which will probably seperate us from many people, who may not accept our fundament as their starting point. Nevertheless I believe, we will need it and its just fair to put in the beginning, because there is no fun to trick anybody, not to say that its useless especially in our case.

So my first questions about our basic parameters is adding a Why to what we have tried to explain before (the Who): Why are we thinking for others? Why do we care at all? Why do we want to change the world? Why do we believe in our ability to do something about it? The „Why“ can help us deepening our fundament, sometimes it even hurts. I guess we wont have that much problems in answering that question in a satisfactory way, because I already have an idea about it and my intuition say, you have it the same. Lets see:

Why do we care? I care because, I feel whatever others feel. I feel pain, cold cynic ignorance, love and happiness, anger and so on. And I found one feeling most satisfactory: Happiness. And I realized that about emotions there is a kind of economy. No, there is even more than one kind of ecomomy. I see that there is a lot of people walking around town, who seem to believe they have to spare their positive emotions, as if they have a bank account for these feelings. The same people seem to believe that if they are happy, someone else must be sad, because as money, too, good feelings are limited. I realized, these people are not happy at all – I was one of them. While trying to become a happy person then, I realized, the more I close myself towards others the more desperate I become, even though I closed myself to avoid the desperate feelings others imposed on me. So I stopped running away from others and learned that running away from others is very much linked to running away from yourself, simply because being open also means to get a lot of feedback concerning yourself. I (re-) opened up and found myself, found a way out of self reffering circles of useless mind-squashing. Because of my daily interaction I find it more than evident, that my happiness rely on the happiness of the people in my neighbourhood. And definitly, the world has become my neighbourhood. But the questions remains, why there is people who experience the world differently? My assumption is: They dont know happiness as I didnt knew, because I had lost it before my mind had been ready to realize. Some people never experienced happiness and are (self-) trained to hurt each other and because some didnt even learn to reflect succesfully they dont even have the chance to realize that there is something worth a change. Some learnt to exploite and suppress others succesfully (economically, physically, emotionally) and their reflections turn and turn in these circles of domination and subordination, not realizing that they are most successfully ruining even their own lifes. We are linked to each other locally and globally, as we are humans, socially driven beings. And we have a major ability and therefore responsibility: to make each other happy ... thats what I feel and see. Thats why I do care wether we live up or vanish.

The only „Why“ which is not answered yet, is, how can our letters affect the world anyway? Why do we believe our reflections can do anything about it? I am kind of optimistic about it but miss some clear words to put it. Also I am tired once more as it after midnight. I hope you can find a way to align. I am still wondering if we chose the right way for our high intentions but anyway. Usually i have a good feeling about unorthodox methods.

Yours sincerly, Marco

March 20, 2007 | 8:45 PM Comments  0 comments

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