Mole
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On this forum we don't exist alone. We exist when we interact with one another. Or as I am prone to say, the meaning of any post is its response. For if there is no response we are like the tree that falls in the forest, unseen.
However interactions expose us to risk. The risk of being misunderstood. The risk of being opposed. And the risk of being insulted.
And so we are driven by two mutually inhibitary impuses, quite like our heartbeat. The first impulse here is to be seen and the second is to hide.
And like everyday, garden variety geniuses we accomodate both impulses in arguing.
For arguing allows us to be in contact but at the same time arguing allows us to protect ourselves.
Normally such an activity driven by two conflicting impulses at the same time is called neurotic. And so arguing is simply a group neurosis.
And of course a neurosis is simply a reaching for integrity and wholeness.
So together we are reaching for integrity and wholeness that is just beyond our grasp.
However interactions expose us to risk. The risk of being misunderstood. The risk of being opposed. And the risk of being insulted.
And so we are driven by two mutually inhibitary impuses, quite like our heartbeat. The first impulse here is to be seen and the second is to hide.
And like everyday, garden variety geniuses we accomodate both impulses in arguing.
For arguing allows us to be in contact but at the same time arguing allows us to protect ourselves.
Normally such an activity driven by two conflicting impulses at the same time is called neurotic. And so arguing is simply a group neurosis.
And of course a neurosis is simply a reaching for integrity and wholeness.
So together we are reaching for integrity and wholeness that is just beyond our grasp.