| |
|
Re^2: ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
by russell pensyl
| |
if the world and
everthing in it were to increase by twice it size would we be able
to discern a change?
after the few days of relative calm a
courtesy i noticed on the freeways after, and now, after being cut
off and flipped off as often as before, it appears to me that the
world was or is NOT a different place.
perhaps a real
paradigm shift comes not from big traumas but from small shifts in
how we react and respond to those around us. i have contend for
years in my graduate seminars and critiques when they get to it that
the our society at least here in the US is really not that much
different than it has been for the last hundred years or so. the
essential character and the way we interact with one another really
has not changed very much at all. we are just able to do much
quicker and with a lttle more callousness than in earliler times.
there really isn't much difference, just a lot more of it.
i
really don't expect things to change for the "better." this is as
good as it is going to get. it is a perfect yet "imperfect" world.
perhaps our role as humans in it is really to learn to find a way to
make the most mundane, simple and overlooked parts of our experience
as important as those we seem to recognize as the monumetal or
horrendous as the case may be. perhaps tieing my shoes is as deep
and sublime an experience as can be afforded me and i just cannot
recognize it.
as the sufi mystic P.D. Ouspensky said, "there
is only the pain that one person can feel and no more. a million
feeling the same pain does not increase total any more than what can
be felt by one." to me it seems that the amount of pain that one can
feel is so much more immense than what i can conceive.
i
have a memory that i cannot quite shake, that seeps back in to my
consiousness. but i am still the same selfish and coldhearted jerk i
was on sept 10. |
| Wednesday, October 16th,
2002 at 23:44 |
|
|