🍈 choosing realness 🍈
despite the pain
1.) if you haven’t seen the Apple TV monolith: Severance, I won’t spoil it for you.
Go enjoy the experience. Tho from it, I will share here what I believe is a powerful moral you may derive.
that somehow the pain of the R E A L N E S S of life, and the visceral A L I V E N E S S of human experience is preferable to a plastic, happy, protected, numb world.
(DESPITE! what people might unfortunately experience on earth as waking horror, or something close to moments hell—I say “moments” because it can always get worse)
I think the show is saying: the pain is worth it.
it is a deeply human message.
I think this is one of many reasons why it hits.
2.) please, enjoy each of these anecdotes equally.
1.Victor Frankl encounters a women in the concentration camps that says, she’s glad she was beaten and starved to death, because of how strong her faith has become. She has absolutely no reason to be positive.
Ironically, with nothing left to take from her, she is free.
2.like Nietzsches hypothetical of the eternal loop, D. asks his mother who has been a heroine addict all her life if she would be willing to suffer though that all over again in order to have her children again and see the good despite the bad.
She says yes.
3.If you take the blue pill, you stay in wonderland, and you get the most delicious wine and steak and women in red dresses produceable by the heartless liminal void.
Neo chooses the oatmeal slop and bloody knuckles and death.
4.Guts in Berserk…
refuses to stop fighting and die because he “doesn’t know any other way”
5. M chooses for G. to
remember.
despite…..
3.) The core myth in Plato’s mind is that of “THE CAVE”
you’ve probably heard of it.
Prisoners with their back to a fire, chained up, and people playing a puppet show for them that are dim impression of the world.
But one breaks free. They see the outside world.
the R E A L world
The Free one tries to convince their friends that they are in chains and slaves to something lesser. They think you’re crazy.
Even though the free man’s friends are all back down there, they’re willing to risk it all.
Even tho they will die in the real world. it’s a beautiful death.
4.) What is the unchanging reality?
there are words for it, you’ve heard them before, and words fall short.
“Goodness, Beauty, Truth”
Plato made the case that if we come into greater REAL CONTACT with this, no matter happens to us afterward
no matter what.
we are in some weird way
free.