18 December, 2008

Our Collective Nature

I've been neglecting this little corner of the world. Nobody looks here either, and that's kind of nice. This started off as an odd quirk, apart from my normal thought patterns, my work, even my play. I was just interested in what you could see using Google Trends. As I saw stuff, it blended into my life well. In fact, I am now committed to recognizing the collective fabric of our being, that fully acknowledges our subjectivity, and learns to accord that its proper place. The individual is both our misery and our joy. When we see ourselves as continuous with biology, we appear in a new light, and our private worlds become both more and less hermetically sealed off. In fact, if you remove the troubling concept of the bottleneck of the ego there, we become both. We see how a common fabric is wrought from individual points of view. We learn not to place blame on individuals.