Unrestrained Compassion

Submitted by Soapy on November 1, 2013

My head burns with rage from a thousand perceived slights that I cannot get revenge for. Many people that I know share in this pain but cannot discuss the unmentionable truth. We are predisposed only to talk about the acceptable subjects spoon-fed to us by television. These bourgeois subjects, so honestly mocked by Seinfeld, are the admission that our society is constantly discovering unprecedented levels of pain and boredom. However, despite Seinfeld it is already well known that a slightly misinterpreted social cue can earn you unending hatred from people you know. Really the programs on television never discuss reality as it is for millions of us; their criticisms of society are reduced to ignorant and childish portrayals of the psychopath, the drug addict, the neurotic, nothing about the tiny little pocket demons that I carry around like so many weights on my back and the ceaseless will of mine to break through their trap and love all of humanity without restraint! Truly, the only respite is love, but many people cannot love anymore and so are doomed to spend their whole lives searching for solace and never finding it. How can I be satisfied in love knowing that so many others are not? Where is the love in the lives of my suicidal roommates whose service jobs drive them to the brink of insanity? And when they take out their anger on me, it is all I can do to resist slinging the hatred back at them. Who could have imagined the construction of a more elaborate oppression for all of humanity?

Surely if we all took one lunch break at the nearest park and discussed our lives without lying we would all soon admit how much we hate work in all of its forms. And after we came to this conclusion what other course of action could we take other than to destroy everything that restrains our compassion for one another? Maybe the best course of action is to work on destroying our own demons. To finding others who are as committed as we are to love and banding together to create a new world. “The new revolutionary collective will come into being through a chain reaction leaping from one subjectivity to the next. The construction of a community of people who are whole individuals will inaugurate the reversal of perspective without which no transcendence is possible.”

There is no middle ground. Everything must be recreated.

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