Everyone on this planet is connected to another human being, no matter how hard you try to isolate yourself, no matter how ostracized you are, we are connected to another human being. Be it your family, your mother, your friends, your colleagues, your fellow hermits, we are intricately connected. The loneliest human on earth is still connected to at least one other person. Now these connections can run thick, they say blood is the thickest, or they could be superficial. Even the lack of a visible connection is still a connection. Humans are apparently "social animals" we are conditioned to yearn for a family and friends and we feel lonely and empty without people around us.
So caught up in trying to make and maintain these connections with others that we often times lose our connection with ourselves. But there are an abundance of self-help guides and books to help us with that nowadays. These guides and books and groups that help us understand ourselves, its funny isn't it, someone else helping us connect with our own self. So much interdependence, using each other as crutches, one falls and the rest come tumbling down. I suppose in reality we are far more communal than we realize. Maybe that is why capitalism isn't working out to well for us, every man for himself doesn't work if man can't be by himself. Even Adam needed an Eve.
Are we scared? Are we frightened that we won't be able to function on our own? We have internalized our socialization so well that being alone has become one of the greatest fears of the human population. People do anything to find someone they can be with, and if someone is alone they have to learn to be alone through great efforts else they slowly drift into depression and the likes.
Some people might argue and say "I can be alone, I don't need other people." And there are people who can truly be alone, they go up to the mountains and meditate for days and weeks. They are exceptions, they are the ones who Nietzsche extols when he talks about the ascetic ideals. But most people, they are unable to stay with just themselves, they need entertainment, they need company, they need to occupy their mind so that they don't feel the loneliness.
This is no way a criticism, just an observation. Maybe we weren't created to be alone, maybe becoming so dependent on each other was a part of our evolution. It definitely became a part of our socialization.
Just a mid-year ramble, I'll try to be back sooner next time, but don't count on it.
So caught up in trying to make and maintain these connections with others that we often times lose our connection with ourselves. But there are an abundance of self-help guides and books to help us with that nowadays. These guides and books and groups that help us understand ourselves, its funny isn't it, someone else helping us connect with our own self. So much interdependence, using each other as crutches, one falls and the rest come tumbling down. I suppose in reality we are far more communal than we realize. Maybe that is why capitalism isn't working out to well for us, every man for himself doesn't work if man can't be by himself. Even Adam needed an Eve.
Are we scared? Are we frightened that we won't be able to function on our own? We have internalized our socialization so well that being alone has become one of the greatest fears of the human population. People do anything to find someone they can be with, and if someone is alone they have to learn to be alone through great efforts else they slowly drift into depression and the likes.
Some people might argue and say "I can be alone, I don't need other people." And there are people who can truly be alone, they go up to the mountains and meditate for days and weeks. They are exceptions, they are the ones who Nietzsche extols when he talks about the ascetic ideals. But most people, they are unable to stay with just themselves, they need entertainment, they need company, they need to occupy their mind so that they don't feel the loneliness.
This is no way a criticism, just an observation. Maybe we weren't created to be alone, maybe becoming so dependent on each other was a part of our evolution. It definitely became a part of our socialization.
Just a mid-year ramble, I'll try to be back sooner next time, but don't count on it.
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