There’s a whole “culture” that thrives on hiding itself. This is very interesting. Those in power feel they must hide from those under their power. That they must hide their personal selves and lives and a great deal of their power comes from that mystery that they hide in. If we look at our recent interchange we’ll realize that there is a real impossibility to communicate the inner life. In fact if we look at the whole phenomenon of the Fellowship blog we’ll find that most people were incapable of actually revealing themselves to the public.
That schism between the public and the private is very interesting. Robert had to hide himself from his followers and of course that enigma was part of the show. Authorities in general keep themselves “unreachable” and that is an aspect of their “importance”. They are important therefore they are not accountable to those less important than themselves. There is a powerful relationship between the lack of accountability and the power they hold. That unaccountability is an aspect of what becomes an impediment to actually “share” themselves with others.
YES!!! Yes, this is wonderful! I remember when we walked the streets and I was a little girl. It was getting dark and I was with my brother and sister and father and we saw a very poor child sitting on a porch alone, the same age as me and l felt very sorry for her with a sadness that has never left me. I stood there and watched her in sorrow and insinuated that we take her with us but my father dragged me away and conveyed to me that she was not one of us. I must have been around five or six for we still lived in the center of the city at the time close to my grandmother’s. It was the same with the maids. I loved the maids for they fed us and took care of us but they were not supposed to be loved and they were sent away every six months or after a year when we were too close to them. That separation between us and others marked a huge barrier that didn’t exist in my heart. And that “barrier” is similar to the silence people are unable to overcome to speak about themselves in front of the “wrong” crowd. Is that Ton’s problem too? I ask him to speak from his self and he cannot. He has never been able to nor were most of the people in the fofblog.
This is very interesting. I live in a low class neighborhood and I cannot truly speak about myself to the people around me. There is a great deal of love and respect between us. I’ve come here because I love their “freedom” which I don’t feel in upper class neighborhoods but I don’t communicate much. There is a similar barrier.
There are differences for sure but the barriers are illusory. They are more open with me than I can be with them but of course we are in “their” territory. When they are in another territory they also don’t communicate freely.
This is interesting because those psychologically made up barriers are what hold the status quo and make us less human with each other. Those economically more privileged hide our “good luck”, hide the money we’ve spent, hide the richness we’ve wasted, the guilt that we have consciously or unconsciously, about belonging to a class that we did not choose to belong to and took what we are not so sure we own. We hide it in our silence and our inability to actually communicate like human beings to those economically above or below us.
There are some great people that do it: communicate from their humaneness with no matter who. They gave up what didn’t belong to them and freed themselves from the barriers.
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