Two simple options easy to verbalize and to preach like the most absolute of all truths. But when it comes to face them, these two branches of the same tree can become demanding and prosecuting pointing fingers that scratch the skin of your common sense with justified and logic points of view.
Before we analyze these two concepts that seem to be rabid beasts fighting inside our heads, we should know that the two of them are born under the same emotion, Desire. How it comes that those thoughts that come from the same source can evoke such a terrible battle inside us? Maybe there is no other rabid beast than our desire and that’s the reason why these simple choices seem to stimulate an imposed “moral sensibility” that torments and obstructs our sense of judgement.
Desire is the "genesis" of all emotions, from the purest to the darkest ones. All motives and actions even when intended to serve others are nothing but the reminiscences of a self-indulging desire. Having in mind the notion that duality is the ruler of the opposed terms, we can have a complete and full understanding that “moral sensibility” fragments and divides all logic and sense in self-indulgence.
We’ve been taught that self-indulgence must be avoided. Let’s refer at it in a more familiar term, egoism. If desire is the genesis of all emotions, egoism is the universe where this "genesis" takes place. We all have a selfish nature that is the key of surviving. Without it there would be no sense of competition, achievement or any sense of will at all.
You said it yourself, "I must... I want", I, I, I! People are always motivated by self-interest. It's in our nature. If we help another person, we directly or indirectly expect to gain some kind of benefit from it.
ReplyDeletePS. Love your writing :-)
Thoughts of a predator.
ReplyDeleteWe all are only such an animal, but some being afraid of this part of themselves. So they crasp at the straw "morality".
And lacerate themselves.