It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted in
a profoundly sick society.
-Krishnamurti
To be truly healthy in a sick society would have to be
considered insane? If so, who's right? The person
everyone thinks is insane, or everyone else who might
actually be insane?
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Andre- you made me think of the sincere challenge you're speaking of. Its contra-intuitive and its not loud.
I think it was Chairman Mao who said in a bolstering response to Marx: "A revolution is not a tea party. It is a violent insurrection where one party overthrows another."
A sick society is a reflection of ailing leaders and weary citizens. It sounds to me like you're calling for everyone to consider an internal revolution. A revolution of the human spirit.
But if history teaches us anything about revolutions, it is bloody and ugly. There always seems to be casualties.
As controversial as it is, Noam Chomsky poignantly remarked of our contemporary age "Terrorism is the voice of the unheard."
But I'm not sure that's where we want to go either with a revolution, externally or internally. Without foundation, without leadership, too many who try alone often are left to conclude at an anarchy of the soul.
You query two main things in your blog entry - 1) perspective ; 2) motivation. With perspective, simplified, it seems you get two different sides on the coin of motivation. Motivation being the real issue- a cost measured in golden rules.
Who is right?
The categorical imperative might be distilled down to the golden rule. Do onto others as you wish the universe might do onto itself. Alone. Yet sensible for everyone in the universe.
Without paradigm and idolatry, without bloody revolutions, quietly making choices, crossing currents, no one knows you are free, except you and the universe.
"Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain."
-Emily Dickinson
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