Vive la difference!

[ineffabelle]

Whenever people unite, agree and subsume themselves into a group, this is when humanity degrades terribly. They may have horrible goals, they may have seemingly wonderful goals, but it is during this phase that all the damage is done. It is when people are scattered, bitter and cynical, left to their own devices and skeptical of every ideal, that they are healing and rebuilding the world.
Sadly our inability to percieve the lag of time and how it works allows demagogues and their idealist dupes to convince us otherwise.

There is a third path but most people are definitely not ready for it, from what I have experienced. This is the path of optimistic cynicism. To know that there is no great unity, but that we are beautiful in our disagreements, and we all have something to say to each other. To be non-violent because you know that you might be wrong at any moment. To know that we will never merge and become God, but that it is unnecessary because Tat Tvam Asi, and we are doing it the human way and we wanted it to be so. I don't want to make the whole world agree with me, I just want to find people who are sympathetic and understanding of the greater truth that there are many good roads (even though not all roads are good).

Comments

[tdaschel.livejournal.com]

lovely !

[eating-me.livejournal.com]

optimistic cynicism is exactly how i describe my world view!

[agaitis-byrjun.livejournal.com]

"Very early in the Zen tradition in China, a seeker was instructed to return to his face before he was born. In other words, be yourself. Don't put on a face for the outside world. Let your attitude be as unconditioned as before you emerged from the womb. Cultural trends and movements also have unborn expressions." ~ Kerry Thornley, Zenarchy

[expandonthat.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you...but then that's kinda what your post was all about.

[ineffabelle]

YES.