The more beautiful World, Evolution & being grounded like a mother in Israel who lost her only son
I support my Young African friend to become Messiah. If I ask him, whether he is ready for the job, he is laughing at me. His goals are ordinary & the first training I paid, no job for him available. His situation is like the situation of millions of Africans & not everyone is as smart to find a sponsor.
I asked my African friend without job why he don’t want to become Messiah. I guessed right, he see it as his job & he told me, he needs first security. So forget my Messiah. And what’s about a new job in the prophet-sector? When Michael Walzer wrote "Exodus & Revolution" he had very good reason in our time. Prophets are warning the Jews in the Bible & give them hope. My African friend with development problems isn't very creative to find his own role in society like Charles Eisenstein, in inventing the fiction of a new society by producing the narrative of a "more beautiful world our heart knows ...".?Of course, Charles works in the field of prophecy.
Without doubt, Charles is sometimes depressed by his own dream. Why? If we don’t see how the super-ego takes us into prison, we are simply suffering the neurosis. My African friend knows well how to play not only soccer but super-ego to let me suffer, if I don’t take responsibility for him. Then I sing the song of self-responsibility for him. Sometimes he laugh.
Popper (The open society & its enemies) is coming at the end of the 1st. Book as well to this point, when he wants us to take responsibility by avoiding the harmonic natural state. For Popper the fight is against nature & for convention to avoid to become beasts. When Charles quoted Jiddu Krishnamurti by saying our society is ill, Popper were not healthy in writing this lines. If I write this, I’m nearly sure, Charles see in the way Popper sees ?in “open society” another form of separation. Separation is the topic of Jiddu. How he sees it?
Krishnamurti ?repeats what Erich Fromm, Maté Gabor, ... are saying: We are mentally sick. Who is the society but we? In difference to Fromm & Gabor, Jiddu is beginning his exploration by trying to understand the way we perceive. Krishnamurti isn't interested in making a new Messiah-story out of his inquiry. Jiddu was fed up by being the object of people who wanted him to become Messiah. He answered this attempt to limit his autonomy by the most profound crisis of his life (Freedom from the known).
My Young African friend are perhaps a prototype of the skillful beggar in the epoch of internet & for ?him, the access of belonging to his society as appreciated member is what he wants. He fights to be useful. Because of Jiddu I was imaging “to buy” him like Jiddu was bought to become Messiah. The funny part, my African friend is too old to grow into the role. ?What is astonishing, Jiddu tried to fulfill the expectations of his new English parents like someone like the Prince of Lichtenstein tried to fulfill the expectations of his parents to become rich again. The really interesting part in my African friend is, he wants to play the ?baby with me. There is no more baby-like one then him, i ever met. Hypnosis pure. If he gets the wished appreciation without working for it, he will not at all say no. As I know him, he wants to play baby & let me take the responsibility for him. He behaves exactly like Popper didn't like that people in the "Open Society" behave giving up responsibility. To find a place in his society with less effort, i should help him to reach the "original-primitive accumulation of capital" (Marx). He is already dreaming of letting others work for him. Yes, he would become my worst Messiah.
If i would be as crazy as the buyers of Jiddu Krishnamurti, prominent members of the Theosophical Society, I want my corrupt African Baby to become Messiah.?
The key inquiry of this whole post is how Krishnamurti would deal with the situation if he stands in the moccasin of ?my African friend. I’m sure, Jiddu would begin to explore first the emotions like feeling insecure till he finds security in himself. Jiddu would invest in the field of the lack of responsibility till he finds it. My African baby is complaining me to get meaning to get out of his permanent crisis. The most interesting part, my African friend is acting like Marcuse is describing the “one dimensional man”. He wants to use me like a tools-box. It needed time for me to understand, my African friend doesn’t at all behave in the manner of immediacy, the central question for Jiddu to relate to life. In the consequence, Jiddu sees life a relation. Is in the center of focusing for my African friend to get the meaning to achieve something? Is this the way, corruption is taking place in his mind? ??
The goals of this African man are too much confirming the leading goals of his society, to succeed. He takes one of the usual clothings of social roles in his society & he is wondering, why he don't succeed. That's his simple art to suffer. I don't expect a lot of my Messiah because he has only finished college. What, only college??Till now, he took the role heroically he was burn into plays the victim of society & so he tries to make me his personal victim.?
From Charles Eisenstein as someone who degreed in Yale University, we expect much more & in creating a new narrative he is over-fulfilling the expectations. Marx as well dreamed of a more beautiful world. Life is very concrete even when we try to live our dream.
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Charles is so perfect in putting one word after another, he begins with the quotation of Krishnamurti to transform the saying of Jiddu in his story of ?“something is rotten in the state of Denmark" (Shakespeares * Halmet). There is a nice irony why in Zen-inspired “Plum village” the speak of “Hamlets” when they speak about their communities.
Yes, i see our society is made sick by people, who are hypnotized corruptly in their perception of reality. Instead of simply perceiving what is, they make their own story out of it.
If Karl Marx (Capital) says richdom in a society based on capitalist mode of production is an unbelievable amount of goods, i prefer to say that's only our hypnosis of richdom.
Could i speak to my African Baby in his way? No. He only hope to get me hypnotized as he wishes it so that i do what he wants to get rid of the old problems. He is the best producer of new problems i ever met. Sometimes he makes me believe he only want to cook with me local food & feel happy in my company. Then it becomes very dangerous for me, because he wants money. In a way, it seems he his magnetified by the wish to live his dream. As Garance in "Les enfants du Paradis" he is simple. His great goal is to live happily in company of a loved one. I'm as crazy to have higher expectations for him as good parents.
I'm projecting my goals in him. Yes, i want him to become Messiah but first WE need a huge crisis for him to grow out of his mental rumper-suit. He will become the worst Messiah? Am I crazy? Of course & I understood by writing these lines, he is unable to live an immediate life. He loves to calculated his strategies to get headache from it.
What brought me back to the ground? The cry of a mother in Israel:
"In my name … I want no vengeance!”
Some people sent a missile in the name of her beloved son somewhere else. That was too much for a woman & mother who is my world-champion in empathy. My African Baby is only perfect in "Me, me, me ...!" because he is a man?
If I feel into his video, I have to think about the content of Michael Walzer’s “Exodus & Revolution”.