I very often see people looking for answers to their problems: and they not only want fully satisfactory answers but they want them quickly and almost without asking themselves the questions beforehand.
The enormous human presumption and the autistic mental daze to which we are subjected daily by the pounding civilization of consumption leads us to believe that every need that we perceive as such is for this very reason unavoidably never fictitious or even counterproductive and that, then, it must be satisfied in any way and immediately and, conversely, that any need that cannot be satisfied immediately is not worth living.
On the other hand, to confuse the overall picture even more, there is the aforementioned consumerist civilization which, besides everything, needs to instill in us (in order to then fictitiously satisfy them with its new goods and services) necessity which, in reality, they are foreign to our conscience.
And while we all run towards the satisfaction of our needs (that is, towards the answers), few they ask to themselves for the obvious and, that is, if it is the case to ask to themselves questions, and ie the logical antecedent of the answers.
Because, if you want an answer it is obvious that you will have to ask to yourself a question.
And, if you want an answer, it is obvious that you will have to tend to obtain an optimal answer and, then, not an any partial and provisional answer: it is already this banal consideration should teach us that to get optimal answers it takes time and is necessary to ask themselves many questions.
But we do not know what the optimal answer will be and, therefore, we do not know in advance what the question we will have to ask ourselves in order to obtain an optimal answer: also this tautological observation allows us to understand that for have an optimal answer we will have to ask ourselves many questions, indeed, every possible question and, therefore, even those inconvenient, unwelcome, embarrassing and that will make us seriously uncomfortable.
And what's it more uncomfortable, unwelcome, embarrassing and suitable to put us seriously uncomfortable than the ask themselves four simple questions:
1) Who am I? (ie: do I have an identity? If yes, what is my identity?)
2) What do I want? (ie: what are my instincts?)
3) What do I need? (ie: what are my real needs, that is, those that bring me a long-term benefit, regardless of the short-term needs perceived by my instincts?)
4) Why is there a distance between what I want and what I need? (ie: what is my real capacity for self-determination?).
Well, people with personality disorders have a great difficulty precisely to ask themselves these four specific questions.
The enormous human presumption and the autistic mental daze to which we are subjected daily by the pounding civilization of consumption leads us to believe that every need that we perceive as such is for this very reason unavoidably never fictitious or even counterproductive and that, then, it must be satisfied in any way and immediately and, conversely, that any need that cannot be satisfied immediately is not worth living.
On the other hand, to confuse the overall picture even more, there is the aforementioned consumerist civilization which, besides everything, needs to instill in us (in order to then fictitiously satisfy them with its new goods and services) necessity which, in reality, they are foreign to our conscience.
And while we all run towards the satisfaction of our needs (that is, towards the answers), few they ask to themselves for the obvious and, that is, if it is the case to ask to themselves questions, and ie the logical antecedent of the answers.
Because, if you want an answer it is obvious that you will have to ask to yourself a question.
And, if you want an answer, it is obvious that you will have to tend to obtain an optimal answer and, then, not an any partial and provisional answer: it is already this banal consideration should teach us that to get optimal answers it takes time and is necessary to ask themselves many questions.
But we do not know what the optimal answer will be and, therefore, we do not know in advance what the question we will have to ask ourselves in order to obtain an optimal answer: also this tautological observation allows us to understand that for have an optimal answer we will have to ask ourselves many questions, indeed, every possible question and, therefore, even those inconvenient, unwelcome, embarrassing and that will make us seriously uncomfortable.
And what's it more uncomfortable, unwelcome, embarrassing and suitable to put us seriously uncomfortable than the ask themselves four simple questions:
1) Who am I? (ie: do I have an identity? If yes, what is my identity?)
2) What do I want? (ie: what are my instincts?)
3) What do I need? (ie: what are my real needs, that is, those that bring me a long-term benefit, regardless of the short-term needs perceived by my instincts?)
4) Why is there a distance between what I want and what I need? (ie: what is my real capacity for self-determination?).
Well, people with personality disorders have a great difficulty precisely to ask themselves these four specific questions.
René Magritte: "La reproduction interdite" (1937)
