Light in the dark. Order in chaos.

Madness! Come and swallow me!

Deus ex Individuum
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

“I am the rationality! I am the thing that thinks! I disprove and prove! I carve the world! I am the flame that burns! I am the light that shatter the darkness! The Will itself! There is no bigger glory than to have me! There is no bigger prize than to use me! Everything in the world is wrong! Superstitious! False!”

Then I ask, my dear “flame that burns”;light that shatter the darkness”, don’t you need your biggest antagonist, your nemesis to exist? If there is no dark — there is no need for light. If there is no fuel, how can you start a fire? Ha! The very thing that unveils what is hidden proves to be as irrational as the very thing it’s fighting against!

People of rationality! I bow before your might! Who helped to create and shape what we have now? Who made it with their hands and minds? You! You proved that we can submerge ourselves in the eternal Chaos of our existence, retrieve what is valuable and even survive the journey into it. Masons of our world! Sculptures of our art! Singers of our songs!

I have a question though! The one that pounds the heads of those who are willing to analyze and understand it:

Aren’t you irrational?

Your actions, as rational as they may seem on the surface, are irrational in it’s core. How? Why are you doing them? Why are feeling the things that push you to doing them?

Am I playing the “why” game? Oh, yes, indeed.

Just because I can ask a “why” to everything means I can question every answer or ask for an explanation. Why do empathetic people feel sorry for those in need? Why non-empathetic people do not? Why there is such an emotion in the first place? Why there was a need for that?

Why do we want to live? Where is the reason for that other than living for living’s sake? Isn’t that irrational? Isn’t that l’art pour l’art? Care to explain why?

Why do you believe in values you believe? Why one cannot want what he wants? Why want just comes and goes?

One may say: why are you asking this question? Isn’t that stupid and irrational? Isn’t that unnecessary? Isn’t that what makes you a fool as you pointed out yourself?

I would answer: that’s a bad question loaded with opinion. You have a goal: understand what I mean by saying all of the above? Yet you project your own self on me!

How about a thought: Irrationality isn’t stupid in itself. There is nothing rational in believing in something.

“Ha! A believer! I knew all along! You believe in God and want to justify your superstition! All this talk just to cling to your petty belief!” — some will yell but yet they believe in rationality.

Your accusation though: How did you deduce that? Isn’t projecting one’s belief on someone, I dare to say it, irrational?

How can I project an accusation of an accusation like that on you?

I bring the purest child of irrationality before you. It has all shapes and none at all. It has all forms and none at all. In the same moment it is everything and nothing, life and death, health and illness, success and failure, victory and defeat! I bring potential before you!

Where is rationality in it? How can you have something that is everything and nothing at the same time? You can’t. It denies logic. It contradicts rational thought at it’s core…

… but it’s there. We can sense it. The lion did not eat you but it can potentialy do it.

So, who is stupid now?

Who is the irrational one, oh rational ones?

Isn’t it… you?

Farewell

Deus ex Individuum

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Embrace thy existence! You! The “I” of the human I stand before, I want you to bow before none!

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