The need to confess
People have an innate need to confess their sins (or to brag about them), and one of the few great inventions of Christianity is confession. Every week you could go tell this guy who would never tell anyone else all your sins and wrongdoings, relieving yourself of guilt and worry, and getting some minor punishment to perform in return.
This is a great psychological valve, which is nowadays sorely lacking, as people are more and more isolated in our society, afraid to even talk to people, much less confide in them. So the pressure builds and soon the mechanism starts to leak, causing outbursts, depressions and ill tempers.
Thus, now that God was stabbed in the face by Nietzsche, people are starting to turn to other ways of letting out steam, such as psychologists, diaries, blogs (everyone but me of course :) ), writing, art in general and so on.
It is always good to write your own thoughts, dreams, notions, ideas and even random babbling down, as it helps you keep your psyche organized and tidy, makes you remember your dreams better and makes you more honest to yourself.
p.s.: To show off I decided to add a random photo I took.
posted by Zandi @ 8:53 PM
2 Comments:
I don't think we needed Nietzsche (nothing against him) to take control of our believes, people are made to judge, analyse and balance what they serve us on golden plates into good, tolerable, crap and I could cook a fairly more heterogeneous meal for myself which I would eat with pleasure, too.
Even if you are served delicious, filling food continuously, you get fed up with it as you cannot prevent yourself from wondering what else you could be consuming at that same moment.
So let the conquering of the unknown, wider and tastier begin!
Art kindly enables us to research our own dusky passages, highway to the promised land begins within ourselves.
I never said we need Nietzsche to take control of our beliefs :)
Who are the 'they' that serve you things on golden plates? I think that's more importan than wondering why you consider crap tolerable.
But still, filling food is the basis, once you are well fed you can start wondering about the outside of you, until you aren't you keep thinking about getting fed.
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