“Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”
Honestly, I feel that humans live for laziness. They work to get money and power and control...why? So they can have a "comfortable" life. A life filled with a shelter, a surplus of food and comfort. They work hard in order to live this comfortable life.
What is comfortable, really? When I think comfortable, I think of a long, luxurious red couch with grapes sitting in a golden bowl on a glass table. But this is not comfort in the sense I want it to mean. Comfort as a lifestyle cannot be defined simply as a red couch. It is a state of being. It is anxiety-free, loving and happy. He has a family; be it a wife and children, or close friends, or his biological relatives. He has care and people to care for him. He has few worries. Money is no option. He loves his job and his in-laws. This man lives comfortably. He has worked his whole life to live the way he does now- care free and lazy. Today, he works on his jobs and relationships and education so that one day he can one day be just like the "carefree" man he desires to be.
"Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."
I don't think sanity can be defined as "madness put to good use". To me, sanity is clear thought and articulated processes. Madness is chaos and confusion. The only way I think they relate is to say some sort of sanity can come from madness; likewise, madness can result from sanity. I believe order can lead to mental anarchy, just like disorder can lead to comprehension.
I also disagree with the second part of the quote. "Waking life is a dream controlled." My favorite part about my dreams is that I am in control of them. Whether I can realize it in the moment or not, I dream what I want to dream. So that might be a nightmare one night and a fantasy adventure the next... it is really my choice. My "Waking life", or my real life, is not controlled by me. I make the decisions where I want to go and who I want to see, but everything else is controlled by some external force. I call that force God but you may call it something else. Whatever the case is, dreams are controlled by me, but life is controlled by something greater.
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I disagree with your premise that humans live for laziness. I believe you confuse laziness with comfort. Yes, people want the comforts money can buy, but working all their lives to aquire them is not laziness. Rather not taking the time to appreciate the differences between people, the consequences of our actions to our environment, and to fellow man is lazy.
ReplyDeleteI also disagree with you that we are in control of our dreams. We control our lives when we are awake. We obsess with controlling our waking lifes. Dreams are chaos.
After thinking about my own blog and then reading yours, i feel like i agree with you, but at the same time i agree with Emilee. I think laziness has two sides to it, depending on who is being lazy. Yes people can live for laziness, wanting the power of money and shelter, but people also work for the money like Emilee mentions above. Also, i think we have no control of our dreams at all. While we may be able to influence them, i think dreams require a higher power to be controled.
ReplyDeleteI'm against your definiton of Sanity and Madness. As I said in my blog, I find Sanity and Madness are transitional, that Sanity gives way to Madness, and only by passing through madness can we ever reach some sort of true understanding, but at that point, it isnt even sanity.
ReplyDeleteI do however like your distinction between Dream and Life. And I would call it something other than god, but what it is exactly is something we'd probably never be able to determine. Dreams are at the mercy of their creator, and life isn't. As simple as that.
I agree with Emilee that you may be confusing laziness with comfort. The way that you are defining laziness confuses me. You say that people work towards being able to get lazy, but don't those people need to work hard to get their goal? By going for the goal of being lazy, they aren't lazy.
ReplyDeleteSanity and madness are only as we perceive them. Dreams and reality are also as we perceive them. We could fancy ourselves as helpless or as proactive. The difference is in the thought.
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