The People

I can’t read philosophy. I just dumped my third philosophical book. It’s too much for my little brain to understand. The problem, a common individual may face, is the different and exaggerated terminology which philosophical folk like to utilize. They express simple ideas in very complicated, unusual words. That makes them look smarter for some, and dumper, hopefully, for the most. So, how should we conduct with people? For many occasions, authors can be categorized into two groups, those who want to make the reader life easier and others who want to make it harder. Can you show out your power over people by over smarting them?

A lot of wise men believed solitary fits them the most. Probably, they are different than common people, so they should live in ivory towers. There’s an Arabic book, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, of a man who was born in an isolated island and raised by an antelope. Then, he realized there’s a nearby inhibited island, he went there and tried to live among other people. His mission failed and returned to the isolated island. The author wanted to establish that using common sense and logic is enough to find God. Also he claims that the human being is born with adequate ability to process and collect evidence around him to establish God existence. The implied message is a philosophical can’t live among people, since they’re bias, and drifted away from the common sense. Are they? 

Friedrich Nietzsche on the other hand thought a wise man/prophet, Zarathustra, should leave his solitary up in the mount and visit people. Zarathustra was shocked observing how people become unethical and immoral, so he declared the death of god. Always the trails to approach people by wise men, or so, are rejected by either parts. Luckily for Nietzsche he wasn’t killed after declaring the death of god, since Socrates was executed due to his arguments with common people. Unfortunately, Nietzsche was admitted to psychiatry hospital and accused of being insane!  

Sometimes, we chose solitary because we couldn’t find the perfect match for our souls. Poor souls, we prison inside these degrading bodies. For many times, believes considered the soul as immortal, and inconsumable. That’s where the feeling of oddness originates, an unequal pair which has one opportunity to make concord. Do you think it’s easy to make peace between your body and soul, so one person can live in harmony? Basically we all observe our souls drive our bodies to maturity, so a soul can function fully. At one point the poor body can’t tolerate the demand, so it starts to become ill. Then and only then, the frustrated soul leaves the body. I wonder who forced it to linger in one cell creature initially.

That’s what happens all the time between people: odd pair is gathered under one roof. I always find the term “soul mates” amusing, at one point pet owners and pets start to act alike. Are they soul mates? Indeed time factor is fair enough to force a couple lives together. I can’t understand how souls can be liberated from physical boundaries to reach a higher level of maturity. Believe me, once you find your soul mate it would be like your soul is half the way to perfection. Is there as such as a soul mate? If there’s, then solitary is very benign if I take her to a mountain where we can live alone together. It’s not philosophical perspective, it’s the desire to enjoy and live long and peacefully.

What do I have against my community? There’s some sort of duplication in my community. I can stand against it and hurt a lot of naïve emotions who believe that we are angels. I can go with the stream and lose the special philosophical touch. The only way is going duplicated, like them?! To tell the truth, I don’t think confrontation is the way to change. Change, in such radical society, comes slow and gradually, and without the awareness of the change itself. We plan to seed good family, healthy children and teach them how to make this place a better one. Maybe it takes a generation or two. Until then, I have nothing else to add.