Alienation As "Natural" -- The Philosophy of Resonation and of Psychology
Updated: Oct 28
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The article "Alienation As 'Natural' -- The Philosophy of Resonation and of Psychology" is an engaging exploration of alienation in modern society. Its strengths include its engaging structure, personal anecdotes, philosophical depth, vivid imagery, and critical reflection on the nature of human relationships.
The article's division into clear parts, such as "Recognizing the Distance," "Into the Mind of an Anti-Villain," and "Delving Into the Rationality of Alienation," creates a coherent flow that guides the reader through the discussion. Personal anecdotes, particularly the relationship with the late Master Numi and her impact add depth to the discussion, making abstract concepts more relatable and tangible.
The integration of philosophical ideas with psychological concepts showcases your ability to navigate complex theories, prompting readers to reflect on their own experiences of alienation and connection. The vivid imagery, such as "mental prison of our own making" and "feel like aliens from outer space," enhances the emotional resonance of the writing.
In conclusion, the article offers a powerful reflection on the nature of alienation and connection in our increasingly disconnected world.
In today's age there are endless "options" and access to people all over the world is possible and almost direct.
However, the distance between the people is getting bigger, and the fear of both sides to reveal and discover their hearts is getting stronger.
People are afraid to show who they really are and be authentic because they are afraid of being judged or somehow feel that their voice doesn't matter. -- Mickey Eilon
Part I: Recognizing the Distance
I slowly and slowly come to understand why alienation is something very natural in our world....
See, when there are billions of people in the world, none of us are taught to see them as our friends, associates, or whatever. Our perception remains tribal in estimation -- only family, friends, partner(s), and other associates are those who are most important to the average person.
Sometimes, even our family doesn't know us. After all, alienation is the process of humans feeling like they are aliens. Aliens to others, and to themselves too. With alienation, people become depersonalized as a result, and may see the world as not only absurd, but also nihilistic.
I've become a stranger to many people over the course of my solitary life. Weirdly enough, I also become a stranger to myself. For people to be honest with others, they need to be honest with themselves first.
It is for a reason I pursued philosophy a long time ago. It is also for a reason I became a weird expert in many things despite being a total hermit. I philosophize as a way to return back to myself. Philosophy after all is the study of reality. We are also part of reality. It is why psychology used to be a branch in philosophy until the 19th century.
The Psychology and Philosophy of Distance
It is only within the same century that psychology became part of social sciences, while being an independent academic discipline. Yet, we can simply agree that psychology is both part of social sciences and natural sciences. that it is a hybrid discipline, weirdly connecting between philosophy and society.
It is the human after all that is a hybrid between naturality and logic, and society. Psychology is a hybrid discipline because humans are always torn between themselves, between the world beyond the mind, and between society.
Deep inside, we have a need to connect to the world. To connect back from the mental prison of our own making. Why do many of us seek to connect to the world, including myself? Connecting to the world in a way that fits us, allows us to connect back to ourselves as well.
Back, back from the very same natural traumas that detached us from reality itself. Back, back from feeling like aliens from outer space.
How is it done? It is done by connecting to people that resonate with us. By forming connections necessary for our minds to realize we are not just living within a big pile of meaningless void. Our different ambitions in life, necessary for rectifying the world from its depravities... We do them because they speak to ourselves.
Through connections, through work, and even through love, we seek back the meaning within us. Doing things that resonate with our "third eye", are done as part of our quest for meaning. Meaning, necessary to make us feel like ourselves again. To make us feel human once more.
Part II: Into the Mind of an Anti-Villain
I always hated being praised. I always hated being seen as this great god just because helping people is the right thing to do. No. Being praised as a child, even by my late grandmother, made me angry. Made me aggressive over time, and made me repress who I really am.
Not being able to be open about it due to having my education a task to complete by my late master, turned me into an unhappy child, an unhappy teenager, and later on, an unhappy adult. I weirdly became an anti-villain as a result, or the Heisenberg of Philosophy, and all these titles I gave to myself to try to understand myself.
I enjoyed being forsaken by the world. I still do. Very few people understand me because that's what I want. The world has forsaken her, and deep inside, I saved her from her own hands, because I too wanted to be forsaken. I saved Master Numi, and began learning from her pessimism and from her desire to rectify the world.
I would go to her apartment and listen to her philosophical ramblings frequently. She understood me as much as I understood her. My resonation with her allowed us to understand each other and also to appreciate each other.
In a way, she was my only true friend. Being validated that she felt the same emotions towards me as I did, was the only reason I cried at her funeral. Cried... out of happiness. Happiness, I masked myself to blend in with the rest. Blend in, as to not bring her further shame like the world did.
Being given orders while she was alive, I hid my connection with her, ever since the 2000's. I saw no further need for friends after her departure. I only had "friends" just so I could help them. By helping them, I managed to return to myself more and more. As they told me that no, I am not a sociopath, is something that made me very grateful towards these people to this very day.
Them not appreciating me for being very flawed with them, helped me as well. After all, their praise of me worked against them. Their desire to be attached to me, worked against them without their knowledge.
After all, how dare they replace the position of my only friend who already died? Their unintended hubris.... unwilling to examine and reflect, to just have fun...
Having fun only fuelled my repressed rage towards them, whom I placed in improving as a philosopher instead. Towards this world. For it was the very unwillingness to understand, to the very unwillingness for others to listen to my grandmother, that made her want to die. This pretending, this acting as if we are in a theatre, compelled me to refuse partaking in orthodox humanity. As such, further and further I deviated from humanity. By choice, by happiness that had no anger in it this time.
How can I allow myself to fully partake... in the very world that made her want to die? No. I always deemed it immoral. I helped them, they helped me. I only saw their attachment to me as weakness, so I refuse being attached as well.
On Eggs and Tomatoes
So, when I was called a narcissist, when I was called all these egomaniac names, I didn't just felt frustrated. I also felt happy. I didn't show it of course. No. I smiled from within, for nothing more brings me joy than to be left alone, and bring forward a better world in my many articles.
If they want to forsake me for acting like Dr. Eggman, then good. Very good. The villain called himself Eggman as to wear this insult with pride.
It's Sonic who named me "Eggman." Except the joke's on him! I embraced the name! I made it my own! -- The Egg Memo
Being a rejected outsider, I wanted to become like him, and slowly Eggman became my role model as a result, in her absence... exactly.
And I? I am just a weird Mr. Tomato sage.
So, I vilified myself. I created this persona to attract only the kind of people I like. People who can help me rectify the world. People who are rejected as well. People with their own eccentric realities. People whom I seek to deem as my equals. People I want to be around with, without having to traumatize them.
My own... article empire. My own contra against this world. The world that forsakes the moral, the eccentric... the geniuses.
Part III: Delving Into the Rationality of Alienation
You see, each person can have a function of its own for us, and, thus, a different value. That is, unless you adopt a more universal perception, and treat everyone equally.
Of course, equal treatment is very hard because we are individuals with different relationships with one another. We resonate differently with each other, and with some we don't even resonate. Sometimes, we hate the very people we admire. In other times, we love the people we hate. Weirdly enough, we also love to hate...
Dr. Venture: Oh, you don't know when to stop with all this, do you? You just keep pushing my buttons!
The Monarch: You're my arch-enemy! That's what I do! That's my thing!
If you love someone very much, then according to the idea of pure human equality, you must love every single being with the same intensity of love. That's what makes this method very impractical, even if it is the ideal thing to do.
The Paradoxes of Resonation
No. It's not realistic for most humans to act with each other beyond the scope of their own resonation. Oftentimes it includes myself as well. Rather, there is no justice in this world because of the very resonations that create power bases and alienate us from others.
The "tribal" bias on the other hand, is what most, if not all, of us have towards our own humanity. It doesn't matter if you're religious or atheist, creationist or evolutionist.
No. Most, if not all, of us aspire to have a clear hierarchy of importance for the people we encounter in our lives. It's a way to distinguish a friend from an enemy, a friend from a stranger, and a loved one from someone you don't have feelings of love for.
In other words, we interact with others, because deep inside they move us. Equality of all humans is something that will always be so-ever unrealistic, despite being seen as a human right, therefore.
Conclusions: A Human Problem Created By Our Own Flawed Humanity
This paradigm leads to the inevitable conclusion that alienation is natural. Why? Because there is a limit to everyone's set of priorities towards the many fellow humans that exist.
You can't expect everyone to be your friend, unless you're very naive. You can't expect justice in a world driven by human resonation and rejection. You can't realistically expect to love everyone the same as your loved one. It would make your loved one far less distinct than everyone else.
Negative. True love makes you more moral. However, it requires that one to be loved more than anything else in this world. Do you see the paradox? That is how human truths are... Grey.
Final Insights
When I was blocked by different people online, it was because we didn't know each other at all. Sometimes, they might unblock you, and then try to return to you. Sometimes, they may seek to redeem themselves out of the genuine goodness of their heart, after a dramatic conflict has taken place.
Perhaps, in a different timeline, where my grandmother was appreciated for the beautiful mind that she was, things would've been different. If she was appreciated, I would've let go of such conflicts like they did, these former connections, former friends.
No. I can't. I refuse to let go. My only true friend. If I am to forsake her memory as well... How can I ever be able to forgive myself?
No. I have to be different. It's what my true friend wanted. More different, more unique. No. I prefer to be either very honourable, or very unappreciated. I am a great guy. I am not a nice guy.
I personally don't really have the "guts" to "get rid" of people, no matter how minor they are in my life. I understand that alienation may be natural in general, but it isn't natural for me.
It is their freedom of choice to get rid of me, friends.
I have a world to rectify. Out of love... for a dead Nora.
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