the problem of existence…isn’t really a problem to most people…
existence just is… and there isn’t anything else to it… we just are…
and for most people, that is enough… existence just is and the modes
of comprehension we have for understanding existence, the biases and myths
and prejudices and superstitions are enough for most people…
the real story about people is that they take the path of least resistance…
it is easier to follow the lower, instinctual path of human existence…
to follow the higher path of love and peace and charity, that takes work
and sometimes a lot of work…
it is far less work to simply hate and
be angry and hold to childhood biases and myths…it is the path of least
resistance………to simply follow the time worn path of following the
expectations of the family or society and not question or doubt…
and that is what most people do… they follow the myths and habits
and prejudices…………the indoctrinations of childhood…
we are creatures of habit………. even to the point of living out our lives
to already set habits… habits set by generations past…
so the problem of existence doesn’t exist for most people…
because they have their myths and habits and prejudices,
and that allows people the ability to avoid the problem of existence…
for most people the question becomes, how do I best fit into this system?
but for a few, a lucky few, the question of existence, the problem of existence
is such, that we not only question how we fit into the system, but if
the system is the right system? we question the very system itself…
and such is the problem of existence… we question the system itself…
it is not enough to engage with the system but one must begin with
doubt about the system and the system’s usefulness…….
for most people, it is enough to engage with problems like who
will pick up bobby after work and what is for dinner and where will
we go for our next vacation…that is as far as people go in questioning
the status quo…it become questions about how to work within the system,
and what is necessary to move up within the system and how to
“improve” one’s live via the reigning ideology/religion which is
materialism… buying goods………
most people live shallow, superficial lives engaged with shallow,
superficial matters……. the lower level of human existence…
and why? because it is the path of least resistance……
it takes less work to take the path of least resistance…
and it doesn’t demand much to take such a path…
you simply go on autopilot and live out your life…
the system, the myths and habits and prejudices of childhood
will simply carry one from birth to death without any doubts
or confusion or questions about the problem of existence…
one simply lives from birth to death with the waters being calm
and the mountains steady and firm and the river flowing in its banks…
and what of the rest of us? we live in the moment of Zen……
where the sea is wild and in a frenzy and the mountains
dance like waves and the river overflows its banks……
most people never reach this moment of Zen……
where our very existence is in doubt…….
this is the moment where we truly wonder about the problem
of existence………… we doubt and we question and we find
the very earth we stand on, to be of quicksand…
the problem of existence shakes us to our very core…
and most people blithely go on with their shallow and superficial
lives… never knowing or understanding what we face, as we stand
in front of Nietzsche’s abyss…
the problem of existence isn’t a light or superficial affair…
one taken lightly like a glass of wine at night……
when face with the problem of existence… one takes a bottle
of Jack and fortifies with all the courage one can muster…
for the problem of existence challenges one to very bottom of
your existence…… for the problem of existence is an all or nothing
matter…………either you commit all the way or you don’t and if you don’t,
go back to your easy path of myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions…
your childhood indoctrinations… they are the easy path…
you must challenge the problem of existence…
or as the ancient Hebrews thought of it, they wrestled with god…
have you overcome the easy path of myths and habits and prejudices
and superstitions?
is the problem of existence, even a problem for you?
no, why not?
Kropotkin