Subject: Fear and the Cardboard Cutout
Author: The Wind
Date Posted: 01:21:44 02/13/01 Tue
…People arbitrarily define others, almost instantaneously, as a category. If you're defined as any sort of category, then the communication path disappears and the person becomes like a cardboard cutout - easier to understand to the person - but in reality, impossible to understand at the same time for the thing that would have allowed instantaneous understanding has been converted into a symbol.
Whenever people convert the real into a symbol, this occurs. If they didn't have to symbolize everything into the cardboard cutouts of definition, then they could see instantly and in that connected way with no fear and there is the need not to fight any more.
But, then fear raises its head again, and that mistrust rears, and the cardboard cutout appears again, and the person is lost, and the connection breaks, and the magic goes away, and the person blames it on the other.
Brain
Albert Einstein:
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.