Tu Quoque

If my powers over the written word were greater, I would attempt to convey the sardonic humor behind my response. The actual wording of the response is conveyed, I would hope, more fully in the exclusion of the "international tongue of commerce, aviation, and diplomacy that is English." I, of course, use this explanation carefully, just as I do the obvious facts -for I fear that more often than not, people get upset about their own ignorance being displayed through what they would consider a loaded question. Sadly the question (if it were such a thing) would be one more of companionship than of challenge.

Companionship, in its own distinction of the phrase would allow for the question. This allowance, interestingly enough, would encourage the elucidation of self. Sadly, even this type of elucidation is an unwelcome and unloved movement towards something which all people claim to be above and in process with, but are actually lethally intertwined with and almost always ignorant of; community.

Knowledge of self only adds division to the collective knowledge of the whole, if that whole is constantly in the process of qualitative comparison. "You as well!" It is strange how frightened people often seek to frighten their opponents -not because they think it will remove their danger- but because it, in a sense, lowers the playing field. At least in their opposition they can be united; united in the realization that the existence of their individual fears, once shared, allow for a connection which may have never existed in anything more than the eternal possibilities of that moment.

Oh, humorous deliberation! We, in seeing our own destruction, quickly attempt to align ourselves with those around us, not because we care about the community which could be united and possibly divert the destruction, but because we desire our own deification. Curious, how in danger the soul seeks the translation of itself throughout its world so that in the time of its own undoing (if the world was to continue) it would not totally cease. Yet, at the same instance, this soul seeks to -in its translation of itself- annihilate the possibility of the world's existence without it.

In a ridiculous philosophical technicality, we could argue that this is simply because of the psychological misunderstanding of a being to believe that in its absence from reality that reality ceases to be. This is most clearly seen in the life lived so devotedly different from itself in varying situations that one may even have the place to develop completely new beings within oneself. The desire for life in trouble is so powerful that it actually creates life -granted, the created life is nothing more than a phantasm; the spiritual representation of double-mindedness.

A double-minded individual destroys within his double-mindedness his natural ability to be individual, and thus, in himself, he asks the question to those around; hoping that in their answer he can become more than just himself. This attempt is done in vain, for even if they respond, they will only be united in the question, in the same way that the response unites enemies; to their ignorance -and to their self-destruction.