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The Unavoidability of The Other
a year ago
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Some people seem to think you can escape what is called "The General Peer".
You cannot.
No matter what, when you, or me, speak outwards like we do on sites like this, there's two people we always speak to:
1. the real people we know must be there.
2. this "other one", this imaginary placeholder for everyone else.
We imagine them as the worst, the best, everything inbetween, and more, everything else one can imagine, and the vague sense of everything you cannot.
It is god, the devil, the spirit, the soul, aliens, animals, ghosts, the state, good, evil, everything.
Every. Single. type of imaginable person. and everything else.
AI too, obviously, but they're obviously a bit stupid.
Point is it's the "other" you imagine in your head to take the place of every being that ever observes you.
And the fact is we don't want to see that one. but we want to make ourselves fit to be seen by them.
A line comes to mind as to why you don't want to see the perfect person, it's very simple:
"beware of what you want, it might want you more!"
Because once you know perfection exists, you can't go back.
The Perfect Book demands conformity to it's doctrine, and makes every other book redundant.
It's the same for any other form of this.
If a perfect thing came into this world, everything else would become redundant.
There's consolation in the thought that will likely never happen, because a perfect being wouldn't need anything but itself.
But even then, the horrible possibility of a perfect book that could randomly fall from the sky one day is a terrifying prospect to me.
I just know it would end horribly, beyond horribly.
It's good that nothing like that will probably ever happen, I would hope.
You cannot.
No matter what, when you, or me, speak outwards like we do on sites like this, there's two people we always speak to:
1. the real people we know must be there.
2. this "other one", this imaginary placeholder for everyone else.
We imagine them as the worst, the best, everything inbetween, and more, everything else one can imagine, and the vague sense of everything you cannot.
It is god, the devil, the spirit, the soul, aliens, animals, ghosts, the state, good, evil, everything.
Every. Single. type of imaginable person. and everything else.
AI too, obviously, but they're obviously a bit stupid.
Point is it's the "other" you imagine in your head to take the place of every being that ever observes you.
And the fact is we don't want to see that one. but we want to make ourselves fit to be seen by them.
A line comes to mind as to why you don't want to see the perfect person, it's very simple:
"beware of what you want, it might want you more!"
Because once you know perfection exists, you can't go back.
The Perfect Book demands conformity to it's doctrine, and makes every other book redundant.
It's the same for any other form of this.
If a perfect thing came into this world, everything else would become redundant.
There's consolation in the thought that will likely never happen, because a perfect being wouldn't need anything but itself.
But even then, the horrible possibility of a perfect book that could randomly fall from the sky one day is a terrifying prospect to me.
I just know it would end horribly, beyond horribly.
It's good that nothing like that will probably ever happen, I would hope.
