race, religion, culture, ethics all mean nothing
Well, it doesn't help to become fatalistic. Even if it's true, I'm still alive. Should I kill myself? Should I find everything hilarious from now on?
I have understood that life is not a fair that only has amusement in store for me. It is often banal or hard, unfair or frightening. With all the opposites of that. Humour is when you laugh anyway, that's true.
I find meaning in religion and in what I see as my culture. And, why not?
right, personally
we all take comfort in our own familiar beliefs
but i would hope
you don't count anyone who has different beliefs
as your automatic sworn enemy
and even if you did, the point i'm trying to highlight here
is that the "religious differences" are superficial distraction
and they simply mask a more primal power struggle
If that would be so, my mom would have been my automatic sworn enemy and I would have been hers. Since this was not the case, I saw that relationships are complex and what I dislike and disrespect about another human being, needs not to condemn him or her on the whole.
But I was direct towards her and she towards me. We had our battles and debates.
It's better to fight openly than in secret.
I know what you mean.
in reference to ultimate power dynamics
we say things like "this war is a religious conflict"
or "a clash of cultures"
but the reality of the situation is more clearly viewed as
RICH = GOOD
POOR = BAD
Let me take G. K. Chesterton as a reference before I answer in more biblical terms.
The devil is a charm because if he'd appear in front of me as a hoofed, fanged monster, I would turn him away straight away, wouldn't I? So he appears in the guise of the eternal seducer and flatterer, the eloquent orator, the beautiful man or woman. He'd talk in the way Chesterton describes it.
So, the ultimate power dynamics are for me the advertisements, slogans, trends, seductions and mis-takings I can fall for and to which I must obviously fall for in order to recognize what they are. The work of the dark.
The ultimate dynamics is what Star Wars is about.
I don't think you provided this link to Chesterson (but maybe you did) so I will place it here
https://unsecretogigantesco.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-G.-K.-Chesterton-Collection-50-Books-PDFDrive.com-.pdf
Oh, Thank you. I have forgotten to ad it.
No, I mean I can't remember if I got it from you or not. I haven't had a chance to read it yet.; I have to print it out. I hate reading on the computer. But it's got a tab of its own here.
Yes, it was me giving it to you.
I have the tab open day and night, for there is a lot to read :=) Love his writing style. And his very unusual use of direct words and comparisons.
I stopped printing but got into the habit of reading pdfs with screen on full power and the letters to the biggest size. I can't read on paper any more because I have really bad eyes and it's too dark no matter how much lamps I have switched on next to my couch/bed. LOL
i'm thinking slightly more primal
like "lord of the flies"
or "the trigger effect"
All the great movies like Lord of the Rings or also Game of Thrones and other fantasy or SF stories have the same theme: it's which of the forces is going to get you and will make you acting against what is sacred or holy. Or, in more secular terms, what is against your conscience.
I am not familiar with "The trigger effect". "Lord of the flies" I read a long long time ago. Did not like the emotions it caused me, if I remember correct.
the trigger effect is a movie about a power outage