Perfektions-Angst (TM) 5 comments

31 Aug 2005 @ 09:47, by Max Sandor my personal fear, trademarked, perhaps, hehehe Perfektions-Angst (TM) Said the Fool to the Wise Man: why don't you tell me what you are afraid of most, Wise Man? I can see it in your eyes! Answers the Wise Man: Fool, you can't see yourself! How can you see in my eyes what I don't know? The Fool: don't you see it, Wise Man, or are you just afraid to see what you witness? Says the Wise Man: Fool, you do everything to not be perfect. That's how you are always happy! The Fool: you do everything to be perfect, that's how you are never happy! The Wise Man: Dear Fool, this is the desire of everything conscious in the world: to become perfect. The Fool: Wise Man, tell me, in all the time the Universe had to evolve... why didn't it happen yet? The Wise Man: if something becomes perfect, it has reached its end. Hence, it ceases to exist! Ergo, it cannot be observed! The Fool: neat trick, Wise Man. But tell me what happens exactly if something is coming close to be perfect? Just this tiny moment before happens what can never happen, what happens? ... ... Wise Man: the artist says that thus the Golden Mean will have been perfected, the scientist says that when this happens for anything, this anything will enter an infinite self-referential loop governed by the Fibonacci function, the engineer says that when this happens the thing will come close to its Eigenresonance and create an implosion wave that will autodestruct itself, the ancient priest says that if something will be thus perfect, the world will have fulfilled its destiny - until then, we wait for the Perfect One. The Fool: what happens to the rest of the world, Wise Man? Wise Man: the optimist says it can never happen, the rationalist says the sum of the world would always add up to be in a balance and thus be perfect, the pessimist warns of the apocalypse before the end, the dreamer says 'what a nightmare this is!', lovers embrace themselves, trying to forget what they never knew, the artist continues to paint his own picture, unaware of what happens around him... Interrupts the Fool: ...and you, Wise Man? Answers the Wise Man: I'm am waiting for that moment to happen... The Fool: very well so, Wise Man, but what do you in the moment before that moment? Wise Man: the bride stops being in love at the wedding day, just when you thought everything is as good as it could ever be, disaster strikes, before reaching their height, entire nations go into madness,... and you, you Fool, what do you do? The Fool: in that moment before the moment of perfect perfection? I take a glass and throw it onto the Earth so that it shatters in a thousand pieces and it can never ever be repaired. Wise Man: you are smarter than I thought. Listen, Fool, everything was always OK and will always be. It just can't be perfect. Only the ordinary man thinks it could be that way, creating even more imperfection as he goes along. Thus, in an already imperfect world, man creates a living hell for himself and his fellow men. Fool: is that the bug in the program? If so, was it there since the beginning? Wise Man: what bug? What program? What beginning? The Fool: never mind, Wise Man. But couldn't it happen by accident? By sheer accident, by random cause, perfect perfection could occur, couldn't it? What then, Wise Man? At these words, the Wise Man stayed quiet. The Fool: aaah! Is that the Angst in your eyes? Is it that you are afraid the End is coming? Accidentially? The Wise Man: this is what I see is what we share, Fool: we carry the same Angst of Perfektion in our eyes! The Fool: Not so! This is the difference between us, Wise Man: You have not learned your lesson and are haunted by the Angst of Perfektion! But I, Wise Man, have learned my lesson and gave up to be perfect! The Wise Man: if so, you are dead amongst the living. The Fool: and you will never be alive...

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