Por un largo tiempo le temí al gris.
Creía que el sentido de pureza y verdad estaba aislado en el blanco y el negro, los colores del bien y el mal, et cetera. Pero, quién creó esos conceptos? Dios? La Evolución?
Si la respuesta fuera Dios, la idea de una realidad fundada sobre los pilares de dos fuerzas opuestas hubiese sido correcta y dogmática. Si la respuesta fuera la Evolución, ni usted ni yo podríamos pensar sobre el concepto, éste se encontraría tallado en nuestra conducta por la cuña de nuestros genes.
Pero la respuesta es "el hombre".
El hombre creó el bien y el mal, el hombre creó la neutralidad también. El hombre creó, crea y creará, y de eso se trata este Libro.
Entonces dos fuerzas opuestas no son más que un concenso semi-universal entre hombres que percibieron algunos atributos básicos sobre un concepto tangible o intangible no descrito (anteriormente), ellos lo describieron (normalmente primero), le dieron un nombre y lo transmitieron.
Obviamente existen diferencias en la percepción de esos conceptos entre una cultura y otra, incluso entre un hombre y otro, y allí es donde el "gris" hace su gran entrada.
Cuando los hombres no pueden establecer un parámetro sólido para juzgar entre blanco y negro hacen fortuita mención de los "grises", y por ello es que pongo todo mi interés sobre ese "color". Si usted piensa cuidadosamente y desnuda su mente de toda convención social puede fácilmente notar tanto del Bien y del Mal (exempli gratia) se puede probar que uno puede ser el otro y vice versa, lo que significa que no existe una pureza esencial en ninguno de los dos lados sinó que existe el cáos, y ese cáos puede ser organizado, como cualquier otro medio caótico, dependiendo lo cerca que el marco de la situación y su observador se encuentren de un lado u otro.
Dicho esto, todo toma la forma de una variable (incluso objetos sólidos, tangibles y de fabricación mecánica varían entre sí de alguna forma) pero la sociedad acepta todo de manera absolutamente llana y simple dado que luego de cierta edad es más fácil (y normal) mirar en lugar de observar.
Mirar las cosas como nos han enseñado a hacerlo, caminar sobre esta Tierra aceptando los hechos y sólamente trabajando sobre ellos es lo que nos hace esclavos de nuestra propia especie.
Ciertamente no somos libres pero nada ni nadie se encuentra en total libertad, cada partícula es por sí misma sumisa a otra así como nosotros lo somos a la naturaleza, el tiempo y el espacio (normalmente), et cetera, pero podemos liberarnos al menos de nosotros mismos y de nuestra especie si empezamos a observar el "gris", el concepto de que nada es realmente un standard puro sinó una noción de éste, que podemos entonce reimaginar el mundo, renombrarlo y darle un nuevo significado.
Debemos dejar de aceptar los hechos y trabajar sobre ellos, y empezar a crear nociones y manipularlas según nuestro deseo, esto no nos garantiza que podamos hacer cualquier cosa que querramos, ya que las probabilidades están mayormente en contra de ello, pero podemos vivir con menos miedo y sumisión, podemos liberar nuestras mentes y percibir las cosas desde una perspectiva más alta y útil.
El Gris es Verdad.
Y Mentira.
viernes, 26 de abril de 2013
jueves, 25 de abril de 2013
Black & White, I Fear Thee
For a long time I was afraid of grey.
I believed that the sense of purity and truth were isolated in black and white, the colours of good and evil, et cetera. But, who created those concepts? God? Evolution?
If the answer were God, the idea of a reality founded on the pillars of two opposing forces would be accurate and dogmatic. If the answer were Evolution, not you nor me could think about the concept, it would be carved in our behaviour by the wedge of our genes.
But the answer is "men".
Men created good and evil, men created neutrality too. Men created, create and will create, and this is what this Book is about.
So two opposing forces are no more than a semi-universal consensus between men who perceived some basic attributes over a non described (before) tangible or intangible concept, they described it (commonly first), named it and transmitted it.
Obviously there are differences in the perception of these concepts between one culture and another, even between one man and another, and that is when "grey" makes its grand entrance.
When men can´t establish a solid parameter to judge between black and white, they make fortuitous mention of "greys", and that´s why I put all my interest on that "colour". If you think carefully and undressed of all social conventions you can easily notice that Good and Evil (exempli gratia), can be proven to be one another and vice versa, which means that there is no essential purity in either side but chaos, grey chaos, that can be organized, like any other chaotic realm, depending the situation´s frame and observer to be closer to one side or another.
Said this, everything takes the form of a variable (even solid, tangible, machine-made objects vary in some form) but society agrees to see everything obtusely plain and simple because after reaching some age it´s easier (and normal) to see than to observe.
To see things as we have been taught to do, to walk on this Earth accepting the facts and just working over them is what makes us slaves of our own species.
We are, certainly, not free, but nothing is free at all, every single particle is submissive to another as we are to nature, time and space (normally), et cetera, but we can be free at least from ourselves and our species, if we start to observe the "grey", the concept that nothing is really a pure standard but a notion of it, that we could reimagine the world, rename it and give it a new meaning.
We have to stop accepting the facts and working over them, and start creating notions and manipulate them as we please, this does not guarantee that we could do everything we want, because the odds are mostly against that, but we can live with less fear and submission, we can free our minds and perceive things from a higher and useful perspective.
Grey is truth.
And a lie.
I believed that the sense of purity and truth were isolated in black and white, the colours of good and evil, et cetera. But, who created those concepts? God? Evolution?
If the answer were God, the idea of a reality founded on the pillars of two opposing forces would be accurate and dogmatic. If the answer were Evolution, not you nor me could think about the concept, it would be carved in our behaviour by the wedge of our genes.
But the answer is "men".
Men created good and evil, men created neutrality too. Men created, create and will create, and this is what this Book is about.
So two opposing forces are no more than a semi-universal consensus between men who perceived some basic attributes over a non described (before) tangible or intangible concept, they described it (commonly first), named it and transmitted it.
Obviously there are differences in the perception of these concepts between one culture and another, even between one man and another, and that is when "grey" makes its grand entrance.
When men can´t establish a solid parameter to judge between black and white, they make fortuitous mention of "greys", and that´s why I put all my interest on that "colour". If you think carefully and undressed of all social conventions you can easily notice that Good and Evil (exempli gratia), can be proven to be one another and vice versa, which means that there is no essential purity in either side but chaos, grey chaos, that can be organized, like any other chaotic realm, depending the situation´s frame and observer to be closer to one side or another.
Said this, everything takes the form of a variable (even solid, tangible, machine-made objects vary in some form) but society agrees to see everything obtusely plain and simple because after reaching some age it´s easier (and normal) to see than to observe.
To see things as we have been taught to do, to walk on this Earth accepting the facts and just working over them is what makes us slaves of our own species.
We are, certainly, not free, but nothing is free at all, every single particle is submissive to another as we are to nature, time and space (normally), et cetera, but we can be free at least from ourselves and our species, if we start to observe the "grey", the concept that nothing is really a pure standard but a notion of it, that we could reimagine the world, rename it and give it a new meaning.
We have to stop accepting the facts and working over them, and start creating notions and manipulate them as we please, this does not guarantee that we could do everything we want, because the odds are mostly against that, but we can live with less fear and submission, we can free our minds and perceive things from a higher and useful perspective.
Grey is truth.
And a lie.
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