Hi Matt,
Steve said:
"Small self" can tell a story about the evolution of value
patterns to give evidence that the world already has
gotten better than it once was which gives me hope for
the future, but for "Big Self" there is always only now in
all its perfect perfectingness.
...
For example, a mother cries with a smile on her face as
she consoles her daughter who has just had her heart
broken for the first time. Everything is wrong in the world,
but will get better. Everything always is exactly as it
should be.
Matt:
Ah--interesting. But notice the condescension in the
smile: "if you only understood," while all the daughter
wants to give such knowingness is a big fuck-you. Tell
the people living in shit, literally in the case of Indian
untouchables, and if they _don't_ give you a fuck-you, we
might want to wonder why not--don't you _want_ things to
get better?
Steve:
If the smile were condescending, the girl wouldn't keep going back to
her mom for comfort. But she does. I know for a fact that she does
because they are my hypothetical people, and they do whatever I say
they do! But I also think that people like the made up mother really
exist and that people are drawn to such people--people who are
completely engaged in the world (with hope) and also have a sense of
an imperturbable calm about them (faith). They can sympathize with
us, and we don't need to worry about dragging them down by our
sorrows. I think we all know people like that, and the words
"condescending" and "arrogant" don't come to mind when we think of them.
Best,
Steve
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