War of the Ants

[Scholar]

 

A great example of how simpler egoic consciousness mechanisms create and spawn more complex egoic consciousness mechanisms. The same dynamic can be observed in humans - human civilizations. I find this example of ants very good because it simplifies it and removes it from the context in which we are involved.

Antness is within colonyness, but colonyness is also within antness.

 

It is also amazing to realize that to the ant, humans are utterly irrelevant. To the ant, human beings do not even exist. To the ant all there is is antness. The ants world is the ant. This is true for most of mankind, too. Human sees the world through humanness, everything to in the world is viewed as it's relationship to humanness.

The human is as blind as the ant, because the human is only human, and the ant is only ant. We walk the same planet, yet both ant and human live in radically different worlds. There is ant-world and there is human-world, despite them being the same world.

To the human, the bed infested with bed-bugs is "problem", it is "get rid of", "kill", "disgusting". To the bed-bugs it is "food", "shelter", "life", "home".

To the ant the humans foot stepping on it's home is "disaster", "catastrophy", "death", "suffering". To the human it is "hiking", "exploring nature", "beauty", "exercises", "fresh air".

For the human to see the world of the ant, the human must create a relationship to the ant and to the world of the ant. The relationship is the only way for the human to see. Understanding is inherently a process of relationship, of connection. In the political context this is very important, it teaches us that we can only make people care about a matter if it is in relationship to themselves. Only through the relationship, only through the connection, can there even be the beginning of understanding.

 

 

In other words, to transform society into caring about love, we must create a connection to love, a relationship to love. We must create an environment which allows for the expansion of identity, for the expansion of desire. The ego's purpose is to contract when in danger and expand in peace. When Christ gave love to his followers, they for the first time were filled with true love.

True love allowed them to share their love, because only when one is filled with love one can give it to the other, the presence of love means the inevitable expansion of love.

 

There is wisdom in Ego that is utterly magical, none of this would be happening in the absence of ego.

Edited October 6, 2019 by Scholar