So, I get where IAM is coming from…I too, a long time ago,
“suffered” from having a “fractured and fragmented self”…
first of all, it isn’t that complicated… what does “fractured”
mean? well, I fractured a bone… easy enough to figure out,
and what does fragmented mean?
Fragment: a small part broken or separated off of something…
so clearly, having a “fractured and fragmented self” isn’t that hard to
figure out…use some imagination…unless like some around here, you
don’t have any imagination…no names, it is pretty clear who they are… :-"
so the real question revolves around the question of “soul”…
a soul, that which makes us “Human”, not animal, not animal/human…
but human, fully human…
Goethe once wrote, “alas, I have two souls in my breast”…but given modern
history and the path of the 20th and 21st century, only two souls is practically
a rarity these days…I hold that the entire “modern” history of human beings
comes from the “fractured and fragmented self”… in other words, having
a “fractured and fragmented self” is a modern condition… caused by modernity…
the “fractured and fragment self” didn’t exists before the “French Revolution”
and the various modern revolutions that we know exists, the scientific revolution,
the political revolutions, the industrial revolution…these various revolutions
are in fact the cause of the Modern day soul being “fractured and fragmented”…
and the fact is, every single person in the last 120 years or more, has been
“fractured and fragmented” in their soul…it is the modern condition…
that is what defines being modern… a “fractured and fragmented soul”
those around here who profess not to understand IAM, just haven’t engaged in
any type of exploration of who they are…because if they had, they too would
see that they are modern human beings with “fractured and fragmented souls”
the modern problem is how to overcome having a “fractured
and fragmented soul”…
but Kropotkin, I don’t have a “fracture and fragmented soul” like IAM…
ahhhh, frankly you don’t have any idea what the state of your soul is because
99.9% of everyone simply won’t engage in some sort of “honest” dialogue about
who they are and what it means to be human…denial ain’t a river in Egypt,
it is a profound measure of what it means to be human in this modern era…
we deny, deny, deny and then for good measure, deny some more…
sure you may pretend to know what you aren’t… I am not "fractured and fragmented’’
but can you tell me what you are then? … no of course not…
you don’t know and what is problematic is that you don’t seem to care…
(the use of you is to indicate everyone)
the modern world is centered around “doing” things, like those dam home
improvement commercials, but the fact is, “doing” is far less important
then actually becoming aware… being “woke” as it were, to who
you are and what is the state of your soul…
being active and busy allows one to escape a critical examination of
who you are and what does it mean to be human…I am too busy to
investigate what the state of my soul really is… maybe tomorrow, if
I am not too busy… and of course you are too busy… with the crap
work and busyness that that we use to excuse ourselves from
an actual examination of who we are and what is the state of our soul…
we hide behind the busyness of the modern world which allow us to
hide and pretend and mask our true selves, our real selves…
our “fracture and fragmented selves”…which we would see if
we have the courage to engage with who we are and what it means to
be human…to engage with our souls, not our pocket book or our
means of production/our crap jobs…
to be a modern human being means to have a “fractured and fragmented soul”
if you only took the time to look honestly, you would know that…
Kropotkin