writing from
Scars Publications

Audio/Video chapbooks cc&d magazine Down in the Dirt magazine books

 

The Philosophy of “Who”



Yorgo Douramacos

��It is so simple to say that some one is stupid. But it seems even easier for them to just prove it and you not to have to say anything.
��There is a vile equilibrium at work in daily life. It is the middle step in a narrative of inevitable doom that begins with a question, “Who am I?”
��The question builds, rather than being answered, into an entity so large and consuming that the asker forgets that an answer is even required. Instead a balance is struck with this one question, stale and malignant, acting as a basis for lives of unflinching hollowness.
��“Who am I?” becomes, “I am who.” I am the question, the quest is me. That may sound wrought with dynamism but it is in fact an easy excuse to settle into routines that don’t need justification.
��Empty jobs built on obligations built on relationships built on emotions that you don’t know why you had in the first place. Accept that they may have had something to do with a long forgotten question, “Who am I?”
��Like a positive seeking a negative a free floating question, embodied by someone who has accepted the “who” of their own quest as their identity, is open and attractive to absolutely any answer and very likely defenseless against them.
��There are millions of “answers” out there, but any that actively seek corresponding questions are self serving, looking to self actualize, and therefore are mere questions themselves and as answers equal zero.
��Neither negative nor positive, they claim to be one but act as the other. Zero, self canceling, neither the seeker nor the found gain what they need.
��A cycle of zero answers breeds a knee jerk need for the quick fix, which further erodes the likelihood of avoiding the “zero-answers.”
��All the layers of a life spent in the pursuit of an acquired identity come out to zero and the reward is white collar, white walls, bland thoughts and vague memories of more exciting possibilities.
��The answers are not out there.



Scars Publications


Copyright of written pieces remain with the author, who has allowed it to be shown through Scars Publications and Design.Web site © Scars Publications and Design. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.




Problems with this page? Then deal with it...