- continues from part four -
V.
False freedom and false tolerance
This
theme requires quite long explanation and concentration to be understood. I
wont go into deep philosophical discourse on what is meaning of freedom and is
a human free a priori (by nature). In connection with the topic of
easy-swallowing culture (societies), I want to observe the sense of freedom.
How freedom can exist in this speed-space, and is it real one? The answer is -
freedom is unreal, it is thought –of- freedom, and fake. The same as the
friends –collections on the social sites, and the same as the view-understanding
of own Self. From position of ordinary person, who is roaming around the space
of internet daily, getting easy to obtain information from the web-sites, using
millions and multiple services and applications – all that are parts of
Freedom. How we cant be free in so amazingly huge, not recognizable, without
limits space –internet? Are we not free to see, look and discover any point of
the world, ancient civilizations, different cultures, societies, structure of
the cities, meet people from all over the world, talk with them, be connected
from any point of the globe? Is that not freedom? In first sight – yes, we call
it freedom. But this labeled freedom is knife with two sides. This is the same
freedom to choose multiple options of bank accounts and credit cards, to be
satisfied with the interest rate, and all bank services…and in the same time to
accumulate big debts. So there are two sides always of something that has the
outlines of Freedom. The main reason this is fake understanding of freedom,
even if there are too many advantages for the culture - is again multi sides.
It is connected with speed, fake environment, easily acquired information
(pictures almost forget about copy-right of the paper), being easily in touch
with anyone using social services (Viber). That all creates a false feeling of
safety and freedom. Remember that internet is one of the most unsafe places,
the information you get so easily cant be approved, the identities are blurred
and you can obtain and lose easily your own identity. So this freedom – if you
are not quite careful about your actions, can lead to bad consequences. If
there is a free space, in which anything and anyone can be fake, how you can be
sure about your virtual environment? You need to have also control on your
search preferences, to install anti-virus protections, to clean your files and
data by many ways and to keep register of all data separately from your pc,
laptop or mobile device. So many precautions don’t mean freedom. All freedom,
as anything else in material, is limited.
There
is also another phenomena, appearing after wide spread of personal internet.
This is the false tolerance. What this term means?
With
the limited and fake freedom of space-speed in internet platforms, it appears
natural feeling of curiosity, attachment, like and need of understanding the
“others”, not equal to you. The user become a comfortable reclining person, who
travels everywhere he wants by visual maps, pictures and 3D, 4D images. He is
now click away to visit the plate of Great Pyramids in Giza, to go to Cairo
Musem, to roam streets of Paris, to look the mosque of Isfahan from inside and
in details. That way of free roaming in virtual places arise need to understand
others, and by nature, to love them. This feeling appears of course consciously
or not. So some people are attracted from that different cultures, not equal to
their own. The same as before people were attracted by romantic thrill of
writing letters by hand and sending them to far away land. In this way it
appears sense of tolerance to others, need to accept them for what they are.
The feeling of love and tolerance to other, different than me, is something
very positive for sure. No doubt about. But I want to point out, this is again
not real tolerance, but just a “cover”, mask of tolerance. Why? Simply because
its created by the need and by human nature. As someone said before –the need
of love is not the love itself. Whatever very positive theories about
“attraction” we read, they fail in some basic points. Sadly –not all that
glitters is gold. And it’s a fact. That’s why – the feeling of tolerance and
love to others is something amazing and beautiful by itself. As a feeling and
idea it is what we all strive. But in reality this feeling is not so easy to
achieve, as it requires certain position and action –directed to the object of
tolerance/ love. In the point of action exactly this falls apart. Its
psychological issue –we become more tolerant and “understanding” mostly to
people, who are very far from our own society, own culture, own family. Someone
wont be so tolerant to mistakes of his own children, than to a person from
another culture and religion. This is so, because of need to be open, need of
freedom, and lack of time for depth and analysis, given with virtual platforms.
We become so open, so “tolerant” and loving to all other world, as we start to
lose our own identity in the chaos of spread pieces. That’s how amazing
phenomena of psychological traps of mind came to life, in face of issue with
the escaping from wars and death immigrants and refugees from Syria Europe , where they had hope to flee from their miserable life and find
shelter.) So the tolerant Europe opens its arms to embrace the poor waves of immigrants with
children and women…without any questioning or answers, what they will do in the
future? How they can (and if this is possible at all) integrate themselves from
one very far away culture of Muslim societies and east African style of life,
traditions and customs, to the open and careless about nudity and sexuality
“European” society. Moreover no one asked the very obvious and fundamental
questions – how these people will continue their life? Will they need more
schools, working places, shops, areas of living, and most of all – more and
more aids, donations and food until they are able to be responsible for their
own lives? Why these strongly motivated to escape from disasters of war people
did not head to closer places and countries (like the vast and reach areas of Saudi Arabia Algeria Europe living in reality in “higher standard”, or this is just a myth?
All these questions were not asked but matter was to help this people
immediately – by the easiest way for them – to save their lives for the moment,
even with many consequences in the future. The false tolerance comes when the
people who accepted the same sad refugees” received offences and strikes in
return to their generosity. Mothers in Germany
False
tolerance is to want to give love to someone who don’t want to receive it, and
instead has other needs. It is to assume that just because you are human you
should help other human beings, without to ask them what actually they want?
Where they need to go, what is their aim? This acceptance without deeper
understanding of “others” is blind. And as I said already –its beautiful
feeling to give love – but don’t expect something (good) in return. If your
image about another is left only to the words of this person, and you didn’t
have any deeper knowledge (even in historical line) about his culture, habits,
places, religion, so you cant have real understanding. You will stay to the
“need of tolerance” which will be always a position of risk, no matter how
noble it looks. Be tolerant” to the point you know what you are able to give.
Not more than that.
[ nina Lea-nura * ]
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