Love, hate and truman

[Sepia]

"One man showed up at a federal building, asking for release from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life."  -  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081124/ap_on_re_us/truman_syndrome


You have all conceivable right. Not only do you have all rights but you should always be, should always see it, not shoving it underneath your pillow or ignoring it. You have a right to be mad and you should be mad. You should be angry and for all that bile and poison that's working up inside you will most likely kill you, not the ones it's directed at. Because you're really a good person. You might talk loud, you might scream and people that don't know you might look upon you as angry or angsty but those that do know you, know that your heart is kind.

We all know that we should love, possibly from early childhood we are taught that love is the most superior thing. Love gives meaning where there was none. Love can cure sick hearts and heal diseases and the answer to Planescape: Torment's plot defining question - What can change the nature of a man? is love. Love is in the air. Love is wonderful, it makes us feel well, it does something to us that we're usually too afraid to do. Drugs can also have that effect but unless you had a guided trip with a spiritual leader of some kind, drugs don't stay in your body, drugs disappear, the effect disappears. Which brings us back to love.

Which brings us to hate for isn't hate and love the same word, the same feeling with different mechanics? What is hate if not love? What do you do for hate that you do not do for love or vice versa? Why should we not hate when we should love? Why are we not taught to cultivate hatred, to build it up and see how it functions? Why is hatred that which comes before an apology or a feeling of guilt? As I see it, there are two strong emotions, love and hate. In the other end of the scale, we find apathy, the complete lack of either functions. By following this theory, hate should be as equally blind as love, non? Give the bitch a sword and the amalgamation of love and hate and here we have justice. Did you know that justice was called judgment back in the day?

Blind but not like bats. Blind like an old man, with white rotting skin sitting in his cave and waiting for the one-eyed king to lead him the way. That kind of blindness. Some should say that we are cured of our blindness or some of us are, living with the delusions of being Truman and not really distrusting everyone we know or going into a hissyfit as what they're doing is just their jobs.

"Meanwhile, researchers in London described a "Truman syndrome" patient in the British Journal of Psychiatry in August. The 26-year-old postman "had a sense the world was slightly unreal, as if he was the eponymous hero in the film," the researchers wrote."

Not doing the whole discussion of reality television as people were morons with hopes of grandeur before there was tv but is all it takes to feel as if the world is slightly unreal? Who hasn't ever felt that the world is slightly unreal? Who hasn't believed that this is an illusion and all of it is a hoax? I mean, if you're one of the people with rand or däniken on the nightstand, what parts of the world do you even accept as real? What can be trusted? What can be distrusted, what can be conditioned from birth as in a Huxleyan reality or most importantly, what can't?

The heart. When we love or when we hate all we know is our heart and while we may have been pavlovian dogs earlier, we do not tap into that when we clench our fists and scream. When we hate at something founded, when we get pissed off because we're  out of toilet paper and coffee filters. It is what we fall back on, it is our second plan, our emotions. I have met bright people that have felt that we should never submit to hatred because it would have been the same as stunting our evolutionary growth while the same crimethincers believed that love is good because love is pretty. You see, hatred makes us like them and whether it's the political competition or the chimpanzees they're talking about, what is really wrong with giving in to our hate and smash something? It won't change anything but when did ever love do, change something that wasn't part of your world?

[Jenne]

OMIGOD.  I think I love you, brennschluss.  Run away with me.

(I have NEVER read something from you that I didn't immediately jaw-droppingly swoon from.  )



(edited long after orig post b/c I obviously meant READ)

[Sepia]

Haha, thanks Jen.

[Jenne]