On the Qualified Value in Conformity
According to Kohlberg, most individuals live on the
Conventional Moral Level. The mind must fear not only for its own safety but
for its utility in the aid of others’ progress. If the nervous system is of
secondary importance, possible harm done to it is only one factor in the value
of conformity. Conformity is a survivalistic necessity which may be in accord
with the Unconscious, yet it necessitates at once being aware of a “truth” and
being aware of its illusory nature: A kind of schizophrenia that only
tremendous discipline and adventurousness can help us to transcend. Overcoming
the will to truth and an excessively Dyonesiac worldview may help, but the
problem will not be resolved without social change and psychological
transformation on a large scale.
Any sense of “futility” arises from this human social
predicament. Something is only futile so long as one holds an unrealistic ideal
in mind. Yet all ideals are unreal because they are sheer qualities of mind,
when the mind is not fluid and childlike. When will is in accord with ability,
man enters into a flow state. When he is not in accord with the flow state, he
strives for ideals, which are mere representations of reality that have little
to do with Actual Life, except where the manipulation of ideals helps to
deconstruct subconscious programs.
Dm.A.A.
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