why do we worship dickheads?
why do we worship dickheads?
believe in yourself... unless you are someone whom already does!
are all ‘great’ people actually idiots; sure people like Alexander, Caesar, Genghis khan and yes Hitler all have their cool side and did much to change the world, but did the world ever need changing. we worship others because a part of us wants to be that great person - someone special and whom can make a difference, if we cannot be ‘the one’, then most people want that little bit of power derived from such people who appear to be giving us what we want.
this doesn’t just apply in militaristic terms, but on a religious and societal level too, think of all the bands you like there is always some dick who is leading them or a charismatic figure of some kind. of course we do need to look to others for inspiration knowledge and wisdom, i feel though that this is better achieved on an impersonal level as it is in education for example. even here we are taught ‘the lessons of the one’ - that history is made up of individuals that made a difference, that the kings and queens generals and great teachers are the important people we need to learn by. the thing is that they don’t do it on their own! great teachers learn from all the people they meet on their journeys.
there is another level to this; ‘persona homogenization’, when you follow a given other you become part of that group collective, and this penetrates a lot deeper into the individual and collective psyche that one would think. allow me to give you a rather messed up example; i met this fecked up hippy once at a tube station, he came up to me and said hello i am Jesus Christ, woah i thought but being the young and rather cheeky punk rocker that i was then, i merely retorted ‘have you got 10p mate’. we had a little conversation and the chap actually seamed quite sane and that he actually believed he was Jesus, and to all appearances he did appear to be like what i would perceive Jesus to be! i was an anarchist at the time and this little encounter suggested to me that people lost a degree of their individuality when then become part of a group.the degree in which this applies would then be respective to how deeply merged into that group persona they become. now as ever these things are circular and then the opposite is true, thus if we are completely hermetic and close ourselves off we ‘loose touch’ with reality which can lead to an individualised form of the same madness which occurs in cults when a collective become embroiled in the extremes thereof. we may note that whatever the given cult/group collective believes in, it will be extraneous to the the general societal group collective.
all in then there is a balance to be struck between how much we immerse ourselves in ourselves and in any kind of group sensibility, behaviourisms and psyche.
so how do you see the constructs of history and the individual?
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Originally Posted by Quetzalcoatl
, and the more I get older the more I see his audacity... To blatantly believe in something better, despite many don't agree with his culture's customs. He wanted something better not just for him, or his friends... but for those who had none. THAT is something worth devoting your life to, because it is selfless, it is just, and it constructs a better tomorrow. 
