People are not puzzles to be solved
And
Our trauma’s are not meant to be interpreted by anyone who knows them
For all of our psychology
And all of our philosophy
Where has it led us?
We have a hive mind
With a micro understanding
About the ideas and questions
That have molded today’s thinking
We all know the stories
We’ve heard the myths
We’ve ‘learned the lessons’
And with it
The ego of the hive mind has grown
The hubris has exploded
The death of the ego
Usually leads to the creation of a worse super ego
That might be Jung who said that
But don’t quote me
I’m just a poet
A nobody
An artist
Not a contributor
To constructive thinking
I’m more into illuminating destructive thinking
And with each new era of philosophy and psychology
We shed our ego
Thinking we’ve finally understood something
But really
Nothing kid
Nothing
The same questions remain
And new ones emerge
And a worse superego of society
Is born into this world
Another contributor
And on and on and on
Let Plato navigate through the maze of this 21sr century technological boom
And the great rise of the internet
And the universe of the computer chip
Plato’s questions remain
And all the questions that every philosopher has ever risen
Remains
And yet
A million ways to rationalize anything we choose
And justify it
In the name of some philosophy, science, or religion
We think we are smarter than ever before
Or
the delusional hive mind thinks so
How many current thinkers are taking the questions of the future seriously?
Bah
Not enough
I scoff at the world
From my tower of genius
Peering through a broken lens
Onto the fabrics of reality
And I dance kid
I dance
To the notes of madness or genius, sir?
Well
We’ll see
Won't we?
See,
The problem with solving puzzles
Is that
We think we solved something
And the ego of the hive grows and grows
Maybe we are smart
But compared to whom?
Our ghost in the past?
How silly
We see progress
And we see time
as linear
But nah
Just thrown into a new game
Thrown
Into an absurd song
And told to dance
And we scramble for answers
But stumble upon questions
With just enough knowledge
To judge others
This has been a really round about way to try to say
That what history provides us with is an infinite way to rationalize any mode of being
A giant collection of all the thinkers
And all their work
A way to rationalize anything
In everyone's pocket
An answer to every question
Creates no real answers
It’s a loop of confirmation biases
A mass delusion
The dependence on a technology most don’t understand
To answer all questions
And prove all points
A trap
A loop
A delusion
A superego
A united arrogance
A hive of ignorance
We know so little
When depending on the internet for the answers.
-C.H.
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