Ambitious Blind People and The Inescapable System

What aridity. It has been stretched like putty to its thinnest extent, neither allowing the necessary awareness an adult should understand to be seen through its glossy elongation, nor obscuring it; proving the foolishness of an unlucky many. With Kant’s enlightenment glaring them in the face, I find myself faced with doubt when regarding a particular lot of my university peers to realize themselves. It’s as though they missed something along the line; they continued, in a rebellious engagement with their perceptions of others all while forgetting about their own. We all project the social arena; as adults, it is but a stage or an arena, a field or a ring. We know the game, or the production, and understand well our abilities and boundaries within it. This allows us to maintain control of our surroundings, and awareness of environment; but it is when we begin to convince ourselves that we can justifiably and righteously manipulate and conduct the abilities and boundaries of other’s in that social setting that we inhibit our ability to grow. Furthermore, we become shallow, and pushy; arrogance can surely confide itself soon after we have decided what the showroom floor will look like. And it is this very same immaturity that Kant speaks of, that we overcome with our footsteps into inquisition! For many, it is much easier to forfeit the struggle with these ambitious blind people and maintain themselves illusively, only appearing submissive to appease a confrontation with the aggressive nature of their foolishness. But it is only for so long, and to a punished extent, that this appeasement can continue. And nevertheless, there are many who are unwilling to compromise their personal maintenance in the social arena, who will not permit another being the delusion that they have influential dominance over everyone else in that setting. I must be modest; I am the latter, for it is a difficult plate for me to swallow that I should sheepishly conform to the fantasy that these people maintain, in that their rules of the game are what can only be. It more fundamentally not my being that is against the grain; rather, it is their refusal to abide by these unstated practices (whether by simply being feeble minded or perhaps just unaware) that the conflict begins. This is not to say that unconventional methods of participating in society should be scrutinized and obliterated. It alternatively suggests that if one is to attempt at manipulating, or influencing, or affecting the society altogether, one must not only be able to have all participants agree, without illusion, that they will come along into this new transcendent set of rules, but also be willing to adapt to the unpredictability of such a newly established frontier.

It is, then, questionable to me, how perpetuated Kant’s ‘enlightenment’ can become. The proverbial mould of existence and our progression through it (by vehicle of time) appears to come with a healthy amount of foresight; we all adhere already to the abundance of hindsight. This realization precedes the inevitable endeavour of exiting said realized system. But, that reminds us of the concept of the system altogether. If this practice of realization is to be encouraged, and emphasized, in an evolving system, would it then not become an incorporated system itself? There is now a percentage of beings becoming realized to their reason, sapere aude, and then exiting the primary facets of the system only to enter into a whole new set. And this is applied on a broader scale, especially when groups exit systems. As discussed earlier, it is when the counter-culture exited from the rest of the capitalist system. It then became incorporated within itself to be counter-culture, exiting in the same kind of patterns that one would live under while still within that capitalist system. It’s a trade-off; you give up one system for another. Whilst exiting one system to enter another, one is still engaged with a system; it is simply a system that one uses to get to another. Thus, it is ever possible to actually reach enlightenment and exit every system altogether? I am sceptical.