From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 7

As if the current were too high for us to bear and our fuses blew, causing a discharge to unleash through our faculties; a discharge of our inability to master ourselves. If we stare a humanoid down for too long, the assumed reaction will be, “The hell you want? Hell you looking at?” Indeed, scholars of animal behaviour tell us not to stare animals down as they are going to take it as a challenge, in that the border of animal awareness is roughly the defence of their territory or dominant role.

A human being, as an entity not just aware, but also aware to be aware, has countless more reasons for staring, not least pondering, enjoying, or just plain being there comfortably, and this as the very first requisite to be cause instead of effect and consequently get anywhere at all. A human being is aware to be aware, and is cause; a humanoid behaves like an animal, and is effect. Better underline it: the vital requisite to get somewhere is being cause instead of effect, known as confront, and confronting is the ability to just be there comfortably, observing without reacting, in order to act as needed; confronting is not acting whatever, confront is perfect observation and action as needed and as cause, not as effect.
There are many ways we can blow our fuses, but probably all classifiable under either attacking, fleeing, avoiding, ignoring, succumbing. Instead of just confronting.

Whatever the type of fuse, this is the point: we actually favour escaping the pressure rather than mastering it. And when one is hasty, hurried, impatient, to say that the information one’s opinions and decisions are based upon is coarse, is but a delicate euphemism; the obvious results are those of groping in the dark in a cutting edged world based on exactness: those Wilhelm Tell would expect for his son’s head just underneath the apple he is aiming at, should he give in to this “impatience”.