We are all swayed by images. We call that thinking.
Some images we regard as internal, as internally produced.
Some images we regard as external, as externally produced.
The first is personal thinking. The latter is societal thinking.
Both are internal. There is no external.
Imagery “out there” does not exist. All imagery is “in here.”
Everything we detest and love “out there” is “in here.”
Everything we love and detest “in here” is “out there.”
“In here” and “out there” are images we are swayed by.
We call this thinking.
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Revolution comes from changing one's images and living in accord with those images and none else.
ReplyDeleteTrue. The external may not bear any resemblance to the internal framework used to make sense of it. True revolution comes from dropping all of it (thinking) like one stops dreaming and awakens. Even that analogy is flawed however.
ReplyDeleteReality to any one of is the set of images to which we adhere and cling. We tend to like folk who have the same or similar set of images as ours. We think (judge) that they see reality and others do not.
ReplyDeleteSome of us cling to old images and get depressed. Some of us cling to old images with delight. Some of us have images of a future. Some of us imagine the present will never be the present. And so on. We are the IMAGINEERS!
ReplyDeleteShall we let everyone rest in the image nest they have chosen? Or shall we chase them out with a stick or seduce them out with a pie? Is this called education? Religious conversion? Psychotherapy? Social change? Who gets to wield the stick? Or pie-seduce? Is it you because you know better?
ReplyDeleteWe think (judge) that they see reality and others do not.
ReplyDelete"We" is a very broad brush stroke.
Yes, "we" is. "Some" is better if "one" is focusing on individuals. I tend to think in terms of "we humans" as one of the huge number of species, so often I say "we" in that spirit.
ReplyDeleteThere appears to be judgment, but it comes down to choices. Those who understand do not judge because there is no "one" to judge or be judged. They make choices, but do not cling to them, and they learn from their mistakes. Judgment or clinging to choices is for Homo sapiens, not for the form that replaces Homo sapiens.
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