Nietzsche often called for dancing, dancing on the edge of the abyss…
perhaps we should…
most people search for, demand for certainty, for security, for a safe and secure life…
what if, what if that wasn’t the goal… what if the reality is, we should be searching
for doubt and uncertainty and dancing on the edge of the abyss…
There is nothing that is certain…we cannot just accept the proposition that
all of life is searching for something to ground our beliefs on, too create that
which is certain…
we see that in life there is not certainty… we live from moment to moment
in a universe that is full of uncertainty and doubt and chaos…
let us learn to dance to the abyss that has doubt and uncertainty and chaos…
We imagine that we need a safe and secure place to grow… but look outside your
window… we see a whole growth of life in the wild, outside in unsafe and uncertain
world…
all of life has grown in a wild, chaotic, uncertain world… look about nature…
what is certain about nature? nature is chaotic and uncertain and full of doubt…
it has nothing certain about it and yet life thrives there… perhaps our failure has
been to create certainty and safety and security when we should be
dancing within chaos and uncertainty and doubt…
the Greeks were fond of logic and order and symmetry and yet, yet they
had chaotic and disorderly side of dancing to Dionysus… they learned
to integrate their need for order and certainty and symmetry with their
chaotic and uncertainty and doubtful aspect of their lives…
a trick we certainly haven’t mastered…
humans have a chaotic and anarchistic need… sometimes we feed on
anarchism and chaos and uncertainty… we must learn to
incorporate that into who we are…
The “Purge” movies seem to capture that need… (movies I have yet to see)
as I am old, my days of chaos have passed and yet, I believe in doubt and
uncertainty… we can separate out chaos from doubt and uncertainty…
sometimes, sometimes… it thrills the soul to destroy… sometimes
it is fulfilling to knock down a building or create chaos…
but the rational, logical mind rebels against this creation of chaos and uncertainty…
and that is the struggle… finding the balance between this need for chaos and
uncertainty with the need for rational, logical, certain thought and life…
we have yet to find that balance…
the rational, logical mind rebels against chaos and uncertainty because
it know the energy it takes to create something is much harder
the energy to destroy something…
we bounce between this need to build and create and this need to
destroy and create chaos…
finding this middle ground was the work of Nietzsche…
once again, no matter where I go, Nietzsche has already been there…
the young want chaos and uncertainty and doubt and the old want
certainty and safety and security… we can have both if we accept
the fact we need both…
or said another way…the right fights for certainty, security and safety…
the left fights for doubt and chaos and uncertainty…
let us learn to accept that which is doubt and chaotic, uncertain…
all the while building a world where we are safe and secure…
we can have both once we understand the need for both…
learn to dance next to the abyss and you will achieve security and safety
it makes no sense but it is true… for often the truest part of life makes
little rational sense…
Kropotkin