So its two in the morning and I can’t sleep…
hence this post…
When thinking about it, we can confirm the dual nature of human beings,
indeed, of all existence… we can see this in this dual nature of existence
by its two natures… the first is the call to order and the second, the trickier
one is the drive to chaos…the Greeks "saw’’ this and Nietzsche understood this
as the “Apollonian” drive and the “Dionysian” drive…we, in each of us,
in various degrees, have a drive toward order and a drive toward chaos…
and in doing so, we do follow nature…and we can see this within societies…
the more ordered and structured the society, the less the chaotic side can emerge,
we can see this in the Soviet Union…the structure and ordered created
by the Soviet Union eventually was overthrown by the Chaotic side of existence…
we can see this in America within the Salem Witch trials… the Witch trials didn’t just
happen to occur where they did, they happened because that was where the
eternal battle between order and chaos happened… too much order
in the human system and we, as matter of course rebel…
look underneath every ordered human society and we see, even under
the tightest system, the need of human beings to engage in chaos and disorder…
look at America during the 1950’s, it looked like a structure and ordered
decade, but look deeper and one can see the chaos and disorder at work…
the gray flannel suit had its opposite nature, the beatnik…
look at the movies that have captured this dual nature of human existence,
“The Purge” movies for example…
now this conflict within us is mirrored within our political beliefs…
the young, hold to a less structure and ordered society,
the old, hold to a more structure and ordered society…
the liberal, the left, hold to a less structure society
and the conservative, the right, holds to a more structure society…
and within us, within each of us, is a various degree of need for order
and a need for chaos… it is not a question of right or wrong, but
of the dual human need for structure/order and the need for some chaos…
too much chaos and disorder and we get Hobbes, “life becomes nasty, short,
and brutish” and too much order and we get 1984… and we can see the need
in 1984 to escape this need for order.
existence is a balancing act between the need for an ordered, stable
existence and the need for disorder and chaos…
at some points, we need, must have chaos and disorder…
that is a human need within us and at some times, we require,
demand order and stability in our universe…
so how do we overcome this dual nature of humanity, existence for us?
we can see this in the eastern philosophies… the Buddha for example,
has laid out a plan to overcome the need for disorder and chaos in our lives…
and within the west, we have those who have called for us to become masters
of ourselves… the ones who have called for us to educate and overcome our
emotions, which is the driver of disorder and chaos…to gain mastery over ourselves
is the ways and means to overcome our need for disorder and chaos…
and even Socrates has laid out how to overcome our dual nature…
to become aware of who we are, “to know thyself”
and then the maxim, “The unexamined life isn’t worth living”
both are designed to help us become aware of our dual nature,
of our need for both order and disorder/chaos…
and what is chaos/disorder? our emotional selves responding to
attempts to control and organize our emotional selves…
to gain mastery of our emotions is the path to overcoming
this need for disorder and chaos…
it is the “educated” man who realizes that our nature, our true
nature lies within the two sides, order and disorder/chaos…
ART is the controlled use of disorder and chaos into the act of creation,
look into the history of paintings and see that as society becomes more
ordered and structured, the paintings become Cubism, Dadaism, less ordered
and far less structured… this ARTISTIC need to overcome order and structure,
is part and parcel of the dual nature of human beings… when we see ART,
that organized and structured, we can also tell that society is or has become
less organized and structured…ART is a way of bringing about the
path less traveled, to either need that is being unmet, be it structured/order
or disorder/chaos… ART is an attempt to seek out the missing aspect of
our existence, be it bringing about order or bringing about slight disorder
and slight chaos… to level the balance out of the human equation…
once again, I point out that existence is really an equation…
we must balance out the two sides of existence…
1 + 1 = 2… is an equation, and for that equation to work, it
must balance out…it must be equal on both sides…
you must have the balance of order and disorder as an equation…
so the equation looks like this…
order = disorder/chaos…too much on either side throws the balance off…
so we can’t have too much order or too much chaos on their respective sides…
the equation must balance between the two, between order and disorder and chaos…
if the equation is off balanced, too much on one side or the other, the society itself
is unbalanced and to repair it requires us to equalize the two sides…
if the society becomes too ordered, then we must add disorder and chaos to
the equation and if the equation becomes too disordered and chaotic,
then we must engage in restoring order…but not too much…
it is a balancing act that is hard for any society to achieve,
but the real problem has been few if any society/states/civilizations
have realized that the two, order and disorder must be in balance for
the society/state to work…
so let us think about this… the right/conservative wants to throw off the balance
by allowing IQ45 to have his dictatorship and thus an futile attempt to restore,
balance… because we must work out the balance within each action…
restoring balance requires us to understand what exactly is out of balance,
in our today’s society, the left and the right have gone too far away from
the equal sign…the left has gone too far away in an attempt to hold the balance,
the right has driven the balance into one direction and thus has destroyed
the balance in the equation of our American society/state…
the mob attempt to overthrow the government, on Jan 6, 2021 is one such attempt
to exceed the equation or the balance of existence…
the American government to succeed must hold the balance between order
and disorder… and mob rule isn’t the path to the equation becoming equal…
we can think about BLM as an attempt to restore the balance between
the police overreaching and without any consequences to murder blacks
and minorities…and the holding accountable all authority, including the police
and including the White House… the President is not above the law…
for that belief, held by the GOP and the Trump White House, brings about
a failure of the equation in the state…
for a look at our American system of Government, the real solution is found
in the creation of balance of power between the people and the state, between
the branches of government, and we have lost that balance of power with the
power of the corporation to buy and sell the government…
congress is now a subdivision of ExxonMobil…and thus we have lost
the balance of the equation within the government…the corporation,
big business now holds the reign of power in government and that
throws off the carefully thought-out balance, the equation created by
our founding fathers…thus we have order and disorder created by
big business and our capitalistic overlords… we must bring about
the equation that keeps our government in balance, within the equation
where both sides are equal… which is not happening now and thus why
we are ought of Wack… we have lost the balance, the equation of government
that has been the “American dream” until now…
we cannot, cannot restore that equation, that balance until
we remove the influence of big business, of money into government…
or, or we create a new equation, a new equation which includes
big business but then increases the power of those who fight corporations…
we must hold corporations into a new balance of power, a new equation in
which we have equal power as the corporation, equal power or the equation
is fucked up and we continue on this path of losing control over our lives
and our existence…we must regain that balance, that equation of existence or
we will fail as a society, as a civilization, as a state… we must regain our balance,
our equation of existence… to hold to the real equation of existence which is
to balance out the human need for order and the human need for disorder/chaos…
that is the equation we must restore into balance…
Kropotkin