PERFECT SYMMETRY

I had another episode of my (relapsing) Che Guevara syndrome. 

I wonder why I care in the first place. I am not really religious, so I guess I am not faking it like all of those religious nuts. To them, caring about the unfortunate is nothing but an obligation, a means to an ends -just one of the many paths to eternal bliss. It is not really sincere if you come to think about it. Wanting to help people for the sole purpose of feeling better about your self is selfish. This satisfaction is the bastard child of the unholy union of religion and morality.

Anyhow … back to the original point. I really do not understand how I got to develop all of this compassion, if you wanna call it that. Like I said, it does not have anything to do with religion. It must to be something more innate… an instinct maybe. I guess this instinct is what inspired socialists before, and does to this day.

If this is an instinct, then it must have a biological depth. There must have been an environmental element that led to its emergence. But how does helping the poor/weak/misfits help survival. Nature would say fuck the weak … fuck the poor … fuck the misfits. It’s the survival of the fittest after all.

Maybe it’s not an instinct … I take it back …Maybe we just want a purpose … “Fighting for the POOR” sounds fulfilling. Maybe Che and Lenin were being sucked into the same vortex of moral obligation as the average god-lover. Maybe it was all in self-interest after all. Capitalism works in mysterious ways.

Che once wrote: 

“There, in the final moments of people whose farthest horizon is always tomorrow, one sees the tragedy that enfolds the lives of the proletariat throughout the whole world; in those dying eyes there is a submissive apology and also, frequently, a desperate plea for consolation that is lost in the void, just as their body will soon be lost in the magnitude of misery surrounding us. How long this order of thing based on an absurd sense of caste will continue is not within my means to answer, but it is time that those who govern dedicate less time to propagandizing the compassion of their regimes and more money, much more money, sponsoring works of social utility”