Sunday, February 10, 2019

you hit me I hit you ?

You hit me I hit you ,that's fair, and a part of your mind is satisfied
You hit me and I hit you, and now there are two persons with hurt instead of one, and that is worse than one person being hurt.

If I give you a bottle with one thousand million pills and line up all the  people in your life - family, workers, colleagues, neighbours, favorite actors, authors etc and ask you to give them each one pill from your bottle, knowing that all but one will make the person who consumes it very happy for a day, but one person will die from taking it. Will you do it ? For a million dollars ?

You can always argue that there are higher chances of getting hit by a bus ( 2 in a million), so there is no culpability here, and that the payout was justified.

One part of you will always know that it was your hand that killed that person, that his/her spouse and children will now never get what your spouse and children are getting ( assuming), and that every time you play with your child, your heart will feel a pang for the victim's child.

At what point does this leak into your life that what you have is unfair, and so you start mis-treating your family to make it fair to the dead person ?

Ref :Fight Club - this is your greatest moment - the narrator had been living life off of dead people, his work paid off when he helped the car company pay claims to people who had taken the poison pill.
What  division of labor forgets is the complexity of the human mind, and it connects everything to everything else. Hence , the 'finest moment' here means the narrator chooses to make his life out of the burns suffered.  If there is no burning of flesh, he will not have a job, and as Cracked pointed out in its phenomenally brilliant article - , you _are_ your job, even though Tyler literally says otherwise in the film. And as a human being who is neurologically programmed against this sort of thing, the paradox between the man and his job sends him to therapy. He lucks out ,because he only suffers from sleep therapy - if he had known what was troubling him, it would be either prozac or a suggestion to change jobs, and Bam!, no Fight Club - which is what is probably happening in the real world.
Division of labour allows for a large aggregation of human beings ,including Nina from accounts- receivable, and those who walk around with salads, to perform atrocities as burn humans alive, all the while hiding behind beige office cubes and the arguments of chance and livelihood.
Combined with psychotherapy, of course.

The irony here is , like the  'you are not your job' one, therapy is supposed to help one learn to accept and work with the pain, which is usually reality seen through your faulty model (Box!), and to stop
escaping via the numbing devices one has started to habituate; whereas it is equal parts, if not more, a source of numbing pills in itself !

All life comes from other lives, even vegetarians kill the plants they eat. Only plants are the purest forms of life, living off sunlight, air and water. And nitrates in the soil. Sun, air, water, nitrates in the soil.

Thanks to Mark Manson and his articles for laying the field out so clear ,
and to Jordan Peterson for his message of standing up for oneself

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