From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 10

Particularly, one’s ability to maintain one’s alertness, self−possession, confront, stands as the watershed between the unknowing victim and the deliberate oppressor, and more generally and precisely between the potential trouble source and the suppressive. Because basically it could be said that the suppressive is successful in turning others into potential trouble sources because he or she has higher limits than his or her victims do: the suppressive can keep his or her own self−possession while he or she secretly builds up the pressure against the victims until they loose theirs and blow their fuses. We may also call this ability that to resist under torture: how strong you are is measured by how high is the level you can resist without losing your fully present and aware self; and when one is subject to oppression, to covert or overt suppression, that is a first requisite of any chance to overthrow it, defeat it, get out from underneath it.

Ever noticed a certain pressure in our current society that promotes being "instinctive"? What is that so−called "instinct": is it being either precognitive or impatient? There indeed is an area of awareness and knowledge that anticipates things and the objective contact with them, and it is quite worth consideration, but there is also what I've labelled here "impatience"; so which is which? What is the case, each time? There is some difference, after all, between just knowing something true regardless of communicating with it, and being unable to just be there and communicate. Furthermore, one is likely to wreck the other: the more one is impatient, the less one is self−aware. So I invite you to keep under scrutiny all instances of "instinctive is beautiful" and look inside and behind each one as painstakingly as their social impact is high: is it inviting us closer to the exit or deeper in the maze?