Just noticing how power hungry I have been and that it really didn’t gain me anything guilt and pain.
That’s a Jimi Hendrix quote!
I didn’t know that. I only heard it from a friend who didn’t mention where she heard it.
Not knowing where you fit into the social strata doesn’t mean other people aren’t aware . . .
aren’t aware of what? Do you mean they are aware of where I belong even if I’m not?
It wasn’t directed specifically at you. Honest. It was kind of a floating comment for anyone who might read it. For years, I has the impression that I wasn’t a part of society, then I realized society has room for people who choose not to participate in society. I don’t think I can be the only one who thought or thinks that.
ok. But everybody needs society, we can only reject parts of it.
We can refuse to participate. A lot of people do this when they’re young, but many if not most return to society and do participate even if they never embrace it because the alternative is worse.
Are you referring to pacifists? In my definition of society, I am including the need for money, retail sales, post offices, etc.
No, I’m referring to people who don’t engage with the world, everyone from the unemployed 19-year-old stoner to the housewife who contrived to impregnate herself with a former boyfriend because she couldn’t get out of the hole she was in and thought a marriage could fix it, then flits about for four or five years, trying her hand at this and that, then gives up because she has no passion for anything in life. I’m referring to schizophrenics who sit on their parents patio for ten years and smoke cigarettes. And all sorts of others.
Do you understand that the mentally ill are incapacitated in so many ways?
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
You can google the origin of that but I saw it in action. And even fell prey a bit.
I had power then I saw how it screws people up so I want no part of it.
There’s no rationalized act of escaping society. Keeping an open space for humble thinking and kind gestures, for the self and for the next door neighbor, will emerge loving souls.
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