Á Deux

7

- You have not answered my question about talking to yourself. That is, you have but by returning the question to me. Have you tried to discuss all this with your contemporaries?

- No, what for? Why bother them? There are too few who might be interested. And those would prefer to reason not with me. It becomes ever more difficult to talk to each other.

- Talking to oneself is in some sense unnatural. There are many others, and there should be at least some among them who is capable of sharing your thoughts and feelings. If you have trouble doing that, don’t you feel lonely, harmfully alone?

- Yeah, yeah… Those whom we agreed to call righteous ones stress strongly the phenomena – the constant inner dialogue – as a symptom of a common decease. But we talk to ourselves continuously; this is not an illness. The problem is who is talking to whom. If another “I” is a set of rigid, acquired, or imbued ideas – an independent person of the sort that claims to be a shrewd one and commands the exchange the dialog withers away. Such a dumb “I” needs to be tamed, awakened, transformed, turned into a reasonable being but not killed, exiled or rejected. It would lead to one-sidedness, а deformation of human nature. As for talking to others, it is a blessing. However, there might be times… Maybe it is worth-while to have a long talk to oneself before looking for a companion.

Now, who is talking at the moment you or me?

- …

- You probably do not hear me, be it symbolic language or mythical, or some weird other like incantatory one… But maybe you are somehow listening after all. So, I hope to nudge you off chance to your own contemplation.

- You might be succeeding.

- That would be comforting.

- The bright mind from whom you picked up the idea of ethical requirement how does he fit into the picture?

- Plato?

- No, your fellow man.

- Oh, axiarchist…3 By the way, your museum metaphor is also from his toolbox.

- I am trying to blend in.

- What can I say; he is a bright mind indeed. Men like him are our only hope. It is so sad that these wise people get stack in their theories. As well as the righteous ones. There has been one who grokked that the truth was in motion. That one should keep looking for and exploring it even if its beam already entered one’s soul.4 No one listened. Then again, how one could grasp such an idea? It is quite an inconvenient hypothesis for the mind. Besides, he has scared everyone announcing that a purified, creatively infused with the supernal light truth could be not useful but dangerous to the organizing world…