John said:
...After a while, judgement itself is despised, and Quality, the focus of
judgement, goes out the window as well. ..If I'm ok and you're ok and everybody
is ok, then nothing is ok. It's all equal, all valueless.
dmb says:
Damn straight. We can't function without making judgements and we need to make
them all day long, everyday. This is what kills me about relativism. It's so
obvious at odds with... with.... with... EVERY moment of my experience.
The aphorism is not really about that, though, is it? I think it's about about
compassion. I mean, on one level it just means, "hey, be nice."
And maybe there's a little piece of wisdom hidden in there too. "Lest ye be
judged". Hmmmm. Maybe one thing it means is that overly critical and
unforgiving attitudes toward others tend to come right back at you. I don't
just mean that you have to take your turn getting judged by others, although
that can happen too, especially in the movies, but also that you end up
applying these critical standards to your self. Then you start beating your
self up for all kinds of infractions. You know, mentally beating yourself up.
So maybe the saying is about NOT getting into a loop of negativity. Give the
other guy a break and you end up giving yourself a break. You know?
There's also the idea of projection. The saying could be a kind of recognition
of that. This is basically a more potent version of the loop thing. The idea
here is that we can't bear to face certain things about ourselves and so our
most horrifying traits are projected onto the other guy the way a movie is
projected onto the big white screen. On this view, these negative assessments
only SEEM to be about somebody other than you but they never are. Or at least,
as the kids might put it, "it takes one to know one". Think about that next
time you call somebody an asshole.
Thanks,
dmb
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