Alexander Nekvasil wrote:
>We live our memories. Sometimes (less often than we like to believe)
>we can recuperate our memories _as_memories_, while most of the time
>we just live them unthinkingly, or, as Bergson would say, we play
>them, or as the psychoanalysts would say, we act them out: the family
>romance, the Oedipal drama, our favorite TV show, ... the Roman
>republic, the Russian revolution ...
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So true and so hard to get across. Most people, especially as formed by
western/captitalist culture believe that freedom is the freedom to act
out. If you tell them that the "freedom of acting out" is a most
conditioned condition, they will get very angry with you. Part of the
problem is that it's very hard to explain that there is a third way,
beside one: repression and two: acting out. What makes it hard is that
the third way is an ego-less way, which looms like a black hole before
the western "individual" mind.
Even harder to get across is that "free thought" is a contradiction in terms.... that thought is by definition reactive and therefore, unfree.
I wish you the best of luck,
Joanna
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