Important and The Most Important

Problems in Individualism and Holism in logic of Philosophy Of Social Science is one of the most complicated issue that one can encounter. Its implications are far reaching. 

Socially, it expresses in the forms of division between man and the society. Metaphysically, it is the same problem that plays out in the discussion on the nature of reality, of being; whether ultimate reality is a one whole or multiple wholes, or multiple non-wholes come together to form the single whole or none of these. Epistemologically, it can play out as as knowledge of oneself vs the knowledge of mankind, along with its numerous variation. Ethically, it can express as the value of judgement of one person vs the value of judgement of people at large, whether life in itself is valuable or if the value changes from one to another then on what grounds. Probably, it is the same problem between the theist and the atheist; former believing in a typical collective entity, the latter denying that entity. In Indian context its playing out between the Astika and the NAstika. Existentially, it is the same problem playing out between the self and world, between consciousness and matter, between nothing and everything.

In my view, Individual is primary. World cannot be known with as much certainty as the self. If everyone began with oneself then the other, the social, the better, the good will become still clearer. 

All By Myself

Have you ever felt alone between the crowd?

It's like how you feel in your room in front of the mirror when nobody is watching. You know it's just you, both the observer and the observed is yourself. Just like that! Not clear whether you watch the mirror or the mirror watches you.

The world can be like a mirror, where I see myself reflected everywhere.

In people, in things, in places, in feelings, in duration I am reflected.

What they are is what I am and what I am is what they are.

I see the world and the world sees me.

The world is myself and I am the world.

All by myself.

Experience Of Reality

'You and me, experience the same world differently'

To conceive this idea will be beyond both of us if this proposition were true. Because I can't experience what you do and confirm the difference. We are disconnected and the abyss can't be overcome.

But I can identify in my own self, periods, when I believed and experienced the world through that belief. Later a lapse in that belief changed my world view. This creates a possibility of different experiences of the world and it seems likely that that difference is present between your and my experience simultaneously.

How did I infer something about you and me based on the evidence of my own self?
May be, just may be, there is a fundamental similarity between you and me and an implicit recognition of it.

Long Time

All past and future is equidistant from now.
Both are undifferentiated chunks, blobs
where memory and numbers add distance.

Water like gushing down a pipe,
whence time come, to where it go?

Time is changing or is it just myself that is.

Spatial Violence

To hit someone is to forcefully take the space they are occupying. When we punch or push someone, we physically overtake the space they were occupying with use of strength and that results in violence. The more we want to displace someone from their space the more violent we get.

This violence occurs even on the mental level when we try to push our ideas down someone's throat. That's like occupying somebody's mental space. The more forcefully we try to dole out these ideas, more intellectually violent we become.

Keep Carrying Or Drop It

I had this heavy bag in my hand as I entered the lift. Lift was going up to the top floor which takes sometime and I thought this weight had to be carried all the while. Why not put it down? anyway lift is carrying both- mine and bags- weights.

Ah! it was a load off.

Whether I kept exhausting myself with the weight or put it down doesn't make any difference to the efforts of the lift or change the result finally, but to me, it made a great difference. Now I could stretch myself, look around, think about things, sing, dance or do whatever I wanted, being free from this load off me.

Ain't existence like that? Moving and carrying everything together at once in totality. We burden ourselves with this heavy weight of getting things done, only to find out things have their own ways of working. Rather than being playful about our activities we exert ourselves, become tense, stress and worry, become happy or sad but may be, the end is the same whether one carried the load in hand or put it down and let existence carry it.

Desire Again

In the state of ignorance, desireless-ness is a dream.