View this post on Instagram
Why do we consume ?
Self preservation or the selfish gene makes us constantly consume. We are born to maximize pleasure and minimise pain. My pain is mine. Your pain is your’s. But pleasure is tricky. The more we have it the less we experience it.
We create false narrative to ourself to reduce the pain. But the first illusion is Ego itself. So it is capable of creating a narrative at any point or level of pain.
Some pain are basic or bodily. It cannot be reduced much by false narrative. But isn’t the narrative required least false at such moments.
Pain of break up is more illusory than pain of physical injury. Former feels much more difficult because the whole body or Ego experiences it. The more the Ego the more you experience physical injury pain as well. So we choose former to avoid latter.
Similarly a physical injury is less illusory than death. Yet we choose latter to avoid former. The death is just slowed down.
Living with someone you hate for biological reasons is painful. But it’s not physical death. It’s death for the Ego. I no longer think I live with my mother. I live with a dominant wife as a slave. She is kind but so were the worst slave owners. I no longer complain about that to her.
But remember the less I have a problem psychologically the more you are going to have physically. My only weapons are pills. I will try everything to ease the physical pain that I am in to increase the Psychological pain. In other words to increase my dependence on pills. Forcing myself to Join job was one such way I tried.
Now at home I try to make me dependent on antipsychotics again though I am perfectly fine without it.
When there is shortage of D antipsychotics become D. Pooja for example !!
What happened was my pooja became more effective than anybody’s so everybody started becoming psychotic.
Psychotics are therefore medicine ie antipsychotics for me. I have to bhang my pooja from time to time so everyone’s pooja remain superior. Mine remains superior either way.
Study is antipsychotics itself. Why to take more antipsychotics.
Now the regime has changed. No longer Theocracy.
But way forward from here is reduce dependence on other pills as well.
Ashwini Singh Chandel is a graduate from NIT Bhopal in ECE currently posted in IGCAR Kalpakkam as Technical officer. He has 8 years experience in NTPC as assistant manager. He shares his unorthodox and unique views on philosophy, politics and science and use psychology to connect it with the general people so more people can be involved with the philosophy and science community and play an active role in policy making process of his country and the world.