Divorced From Myself

Society is a world constructed - "of the people, by the people, for the people", so to speak. To the extent that a particular society corresponds to Truth is the extent to which it is sane.

And now I am thinking...we have completely lost our minds!

We're obsessed with dividing things up in categories. We talk about "head" and "heart" not only as if they were two different things, but as if they're two different people! And then we glorify the division of ourselves by saying things like,

"Even though I didn't feel like it, I made up my mind to do the right thing."

(everyone nods and mutters in approval)

Or then we talk about love - "When you say you love me, do you mean agape, phileo or erotic?" (No one actually really says this, but that is, in fact, the short version of what are trying to get at often.)

The examples of the ways we divide ourselves and our world are endless, but what really fascinates me here is this - we actually experience the division!

Because we really believe that there are two different things - head and heart - we literally live out our lives as "me-head" and "me-heart", and usually to the detriment of one of the "me's". Likewise, we often determine that our love for another is the "just friends" kind of love as opposed to "more" - which is code for phileo-love not erotic-love.

Alas, there's more to say and things to wonder on this way...
Ponder here as you read through, and strangely taste these thoughts I chew!

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 5/09/2004 09:38:00 AM