Inharmoious…a different way of thinking…

If i can not have it then no one should! If it does not make you happy then why do it? What is the point if all your efforts do not produce the desired result? It is good but just not how i pictured it?

There are many more ways in which we express our disappointment in life, from plans being ruined, promises being broken to even the simple thing like accepting the difference in a well known flavor. This is not to say that disappointment in and of it self is simplistic, i am not suggesting that violent outrage of individuals defiant to accept difference or disappointment is something to brush off. Quite the opposite really, perhaps the reasons for such great problems when we are disappointed go deep into what we accept as the moral or ethical definition of who we are. The belief of how things should be and the battle to keep them from falling out of order or harmony. This deep ideology being disturbed my unpredictability, error or malice may well cause deep psychic disturbances.

Yet perhaps the ideology itself it too simplistic and wrong hence it is not its disturbance or variation but its very existence which posses the greatest problem. It is a grand idea of many religions and secular groups (like ecologists) that perfection was the starting point and hence should be the end point of all life. That life lived in its truest sense or something achieved in its greatest sense is nothing less than perfection, and to strive for or to be anything less than in that perfect state of harmony is nothing short of abominable.

Was perfection the beginning? such is a great point for discussion whether one believes in creation or as the Darwinist in the process of evolution, there must at some point have been the perfect set of circumstances for our life and solar system to come and be in existence. However this is not my topic of discussion either or perhaps it is for if we widen the view of either of these theories of beginning there is one unmistakable thing; that from its inception and to now its present life and all it entails (meaning universally) existed in its perfect state amidst imperfection and continues to exist without perfect balance or harmony. There are still stars exploding and comets thrashing about and we have problems, we get ill, too hot, too cold, we die for all that it is worth it would appear that the perceived perfection from which things start has little to do with perfect harmony but the unfathomable ability for life and it all to ride the dissonance and create a harmony/perfection within the chaotic.

This ability which i call unfathomable i do so simply because it is in direct opposition to the ruling ideology, it would mean that we should be less concerned with moving to a state of perfection and more apt to creating a state of being which rides the upsets, the turmoil, rides the syncopated rhythm of life that is in play. It is far too late to stop life and have it go back to its universal harmony (which i suggest truly is not what we perceive it to be), for life is already in motion is it not, there are things going on which any attempts to control are ultimately futile.

If one were to listen to Jazz and be solely concern with the harmony you would be greatly disappointed and frustrated, by all the improvisation not to mention the tonal rifts and tempered rhythms that by themselves seem to be inharmonious but listen carefully and you will hear it, somewhere amidst what seems chaotic a smooth harmony is created and it is created riding the dissonance not with a preoccupation with the perfect harmonious state we should be in. When one musician plays of the vibe of another and still adds much of himself to the piece and this continues it forms the beauty in perfection that the ideology of things in prefect states posits,but does so in a pragmatic,open minded way.

Trying to create the illusion of perfection in life is the same as pretending bad things don’t happen or people do not choose to be evil. The facts of life tell us different and if life has itself a dark side how are we going to live it with any efficacy if we pretend it not to be there. Lets pretend that Israel’s militarism towards Palestinians is only the result of Xenophobia and genocidal tendencies of certain Arab groups. Or perhaps the imperial rule of Europe over much of Africa has no effect on its present state, may be that white supremacy and now the global mendacity of multinational corporations is just a myth life is just a matter of waking up working having fun and eating and going to bed. Does that make the reality of the parent-less children, starving families,exploited regions and people any less real? By pretending that this are supposed to be perfect does it make them perfect?

There must be something to riding the dissonance that has caused many great women,men and causes to arise, something to it that caused people to be willing to die for purposes greater than themselves, some wonderful melody that is created when people do not ignore the dark side to life, accept death in all its forms and seek then to create life, like a jam session of jazz musicians.

Endeavor to think, endeavor to live, endeavor to challenge what is presented as the only accepted way, rethink perfection as a universal harmony that if not achieved leaves nothing but failure, loss and pain, learn to ride the dissonance. You may just right your own piece.

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