Oblivion

Minds are weird. I read about this in a really interesting book called thinking fast and slow that we would never consume something that doesn’t validate our story or beliefs. It blew my mind (yeah, weirdly it can be blown and still be intact!). Speaking in a broad sense, someone might always counter that it doesn’t happen to them, and it might have been true too, but there is a solid flaw in this argument. By default, our mind needs to trust a story in order to understand it. Deliberation comes later, if it comes at all.

There is a Russell’s Paradox that I have written about in my first post on medium (well, it was a shitty post. I didn’t say you have to read it). I always try to find these links between mathematical entities and the real life(if, and a big one). Shared consciousness which we call humanity is not a construct, we experience things in ways we understand them. This paradox is something that finds its place, as often as few times in a day, at least for me. We don’t doubt our mind these days. As I am writing this, I need to be certain about what I am writing otherwise the link between the reader and the writer would break, and there is an awkwardness that lingers about finishing this post, moving onto the next. We can, or rather anyone can convince us about anything. It’s always a possibility, but for the convenience we tell ourselves that we can’t be convinced of something by someone — it has to come from within. I wish that was true.

Nothing comes from within, it’s our oblivion self. We screw our face in bewilderment when posed with such reality of our mind, but even to understand that we need to believe that it’s true. There is no such thing as control or free will or undoubtedly living through life. Only thing is this oblivion, that we fail to acknowledge. We let the world get better of us, and to ourselves we come empty handed, ready to believe what’s being told even before we hear it.

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