NOEMAYA

Nothing is personal. So, why does man take everything personally? Feeling either favored or abandoned, chosen or a victim! In taking things personally, this human persona assumes that he’s somehow under attack, and he rather be under attack than ignored; he’d rather be hated than forgotten. He assumes there are forces that are out there to get him, and that’s perhaps what informed his mythical relationship with the forces of nature as gods. He set up a play to justify his existence and significance. All because he cannot take the biggest responsibility in the universe: that he, and he alone, is the bearer of all meaning and the source of all significance. His enthusiasm for gods, aliens, simulation theories, etc.. are all symptoms of his denial of the fact that he’s alone and has no significance whatsoever outside what he assigns himself. He wants something else to take the responsibility for the meaning of his Being. But there’s naught out there but he himself. He’s yelling at the universe, and he can’t hear anything but the echo of his own voice. When the child discovers that the fascinating world under her microscope is the reflection of her own eyes! That what’s being perceived is nothing but his own instrument of perception! There’s no one out there to bestow us with meaning, and to rely on that or take responsibility for the meaning of one’s being, that’s the bridge that separates the last man from the Ubermensch. 

Nothing is perceived but the perceiver.