Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Fukuyama Film Quote as a Starting Point

"[I]f you tolerate too much you actually don't end up believing in anything"
This was a statement made by Francis Fukuyama in reference to religion, but I believe (an indicator of my own ignorance's) that this is a great jumping off point, and can be elaborated upon and extended to encompass a wide variety of things including the very structure of life itself. A good demonstration of this is to use something most people are exposed to as a child. A statement of positive encouragement and acknowledgment told to them when they are young. The statement that, "you are special". If that is told to one child, or lets say a hundred, then indeed in comparison to the overwhelming population that statement may become believable. However, if the majority of children are told this, then the statement and the belief is no longer existing in a realm small enough to allow such a self serving (selfish) thing to be valid. Making the statement very inaccurate. The statement can only be meaningful on a small level where the individual is self- serving, intolerant and close-minded. If and when they come to the realization that they are not the only person that has been encouraged through the use of such a statement then they have the choice to either stay the way they are, or to expand their understanding therefore becoming tolerant leaving their belief null. Because indeed one child can be special, but if everyone is special, then no one is special.
So, tolerance, acceptance, openness disallows small-minded, short-sighted, ignore-ant, naive, childlike, one-dimensional thought in that thinker. All the while the others with a myriad of strict beliefs keep themselves pinned to things in the hope of stabilizing and securing safety under the delusion that they know what things are. They are able to exist under the umbrella of what is created by the former. Namely, a large singular body, a harmony of pluralistic existence wherein there are no ardent beliefs and instead of the rigid, a fluxing, flexible, flow; a fluidity. One that removes the pause of motion and the pining of something as one thing only. So in the mothering arms of tolerance there can be no belief, because everything is every changing: the scope, depth, dimension its a constant evolution in multiple directions.
Question??-So does this ever expansiveness and change create in itself a pattern? A something to the nothing?
Because the pervasiveness of not knowing can also overwhelm, and with something not being one thing even the mature thinker may once again search for a grip. Continuing the flip of the yin-yang.

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