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You find yourself tossed immediately into the political. Greetings, introductions, discussions taking place, the “structure” of the “social sphere”, and habits. There's no escaping it if you want to partake, yet I wonder if all these “customs” are truly necessary? Do we perhaps confuse or complicate the issue through these trivialities? I consider them not necessary exactly because they are wallowing in the mundane. It is all so predictable, so “more of the same” that to some extent I wonder why we still partake in the things that we realized already are not needed. When we limit everything to mere identification and interpretation we are left without so much more than we can have. All we have now are structures set up through habit. Consider the possibilities!!! Consider the different ways you could “arrive” in a new social sphere. Most people don't ever tread into a new sphere exactly because they prefer the known to the unknown. We are willing to make do with less even if promises of more are on the other side. Apart from the overall structure being driven by single branches. The reality is, a lot of time and energy are spent on things that divert and discourage group unity, or rather it places as in a bubble which we have no reason to be in, where we spend valuable time on not doing anything of consequence. We'd rather defend our pride than truth, we'd rather our customs than considering that we might be missing the point in all of this. Am I arguing for the sake of arguing? Am I trying to see more in that which does not allow more to be seen? Has humanity really found itself on the point in time where we are merely so conformed to this way of life because of the right reasons? Are we living right? What is the right way of live? Should there be one? If there's not one, but many, if not all, then we can assume being an alcoholic who has no home, income, family, no morals, no responsibility, no education also as the right way to live. Yet most of us consider some of these qualities or situations to be either “not for me”, “savage”, or “disgraceful” etc. etc. Since we acknowledge that we don't want to live like that, or live for that, we are assuming that it's not the right way to live. Whether or not we are in a different position bears no relevance. In short, in my opinion, it does not come down to “our opinion”, not that we cannot judge, no we should instead we fail to judge ourselves. As long as no one judges you, you don't have to judge yourself. Think about the accused murderer sitting at trial facing judgment, whether he is guilty of the crime is not relevant, it is relevant that he's being judged. Now if the real murderer was out on the street while an innocent fool is sitting inside awaiting trial should he be judging himself then? Of course not! On what grounds to we exclude specific ways to live? On what grounds do we decide ours to be this way and not that way? Why do we prefer one to the other? All these questions, yet so little will left in the world to answer. Why do we have a problem with answering? The old consider themselves to be just that, a major resignation to their fate of living in the sameness, since their days of rebellion are over. The young are too eager to enjoy their youth in a relative state of conformity to mingle and celebrate with their peers. After that they open their eyes to adulthood, the time being serious, and that means conforming. Conforming to a set of values or moral codes which cannot, according to them, be parted from or manipulated. It is like this, a stance in the one state. There is no other. As if existence has been limited to one end point for humans. Those, the minority, who strive off that path are considered spiritual, hippie, outsiders, radicals etc. They are the other, but their mere existence doesn't challenge ours because they are not imposing on ours. If they were, we would unite to fight them and their propaganda. No, these reclusive folk should be worried, because we have found the way we have decided to follow, we have given ourselves the illusion of freedom in our built prison. Thou shalt not dare escape unless one wants to be cast out of the circle and be seen as the outsider. Not that I am arguing that the outsider is right. It might be missing out on something fundamental aswell. It comes down to stagnancy. As long as one does not find oneself in that state, and that is easy to find, one will always grow, and expand as a person which is a gratifying experience and overshadows a life filled with the habituated, which is easy to fall into.