ritwickpri on Nostr: When the individual sees the massive cage and as a result is fatally disillusioned, ...
When the individual sees the massive cage and as a result is fatally disillusioned, he could never go back to the state of not having seen the cage. The cage built on lies, supported by massive power structures imbued into every facet of society -- helplessness, powerlessness and joylessness becomes everyday waking-reality, all arising from knowing that our efforts against the perennial perpetrators of evil such as war and tyranny will eventually have their way - again and again; regardless of seeing oneself as a passive passer-by one finds peace, hope and call-to-action in the common thread of our collective historic struggle and individual sorrow, against our creator and the false idols who fancy themselves as our creators. The latter are who posses deluded sense of self-justified perverted sense of ultimate good, to achieve it, no acts are immoral, such are the engineers of our fates who restrict our free-will. The realm of action of a disillusioned individual is first and foremost accruing knowledge, then contemplation, then preservation and then as the final act of charity: giving it away without any expectation of rewards.
Consider these words from Sociologist C. Wright Mills:
"The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial."
Consider these words from Sociologist C. Wright Mills:
"The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial."