ALL HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IS A CHEAP MIMICRY!
Again, a disclaimer. I have not written the title like, "Is all human behavior a cheap mimicry?" I am declaring that human emotions are a cheap mimicry. But who do we mimic? What does this signify? Is there any realness or any justification of emotional impulses anymore?
A story by Leo Tolstoy, I recall, where a father is crying on the death of his son. Suddenly, he finds a letter of his wife's illicit lover in which it was written that this son, which he was considering all this while his own, is actually an illicit child of their sexual intercourse. All his tears change to fury. He cannot take it anymore. He has been betrayed, at least this is what he feels.
Now, the wrong question to ask here is whether his anger was justified or not. The right question, however, is what was that drama and that crying all about? He never loved the person, his son. He never loved the son. He loved the "his". He loved him because he was his son. Now, you may ask everyone takes care of his offspring, even animals. So, what do you think we are talking about? Philosophy, Dharma or even Spirituality is this only. To carve out a human out of our animal corpse.
You don't love your country because it is a good country. You love your country because it is "your". A love which is based on an objective goodness of something does not make it an obsession. Always doubt a nationalist, he may be mimicking love, not actually loving. It is not sensibility but sentimentality.
Similarly, someone who makes a fuss about an ideal son, an ideal father, an ideal mother, an ideal citizen or for that matter anything ideal for he might have an agenda and he might be doing a mimicry. I am not saying that idealism should be rejected but that it must be judged. Where does this fake empathy and fake sentimentality come from? I claim, sometime in history, a human takes birth. Say, Buddha, Mahaveer, Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad anyone near them, an Einstein. Then, people around mimic them, read them, try to copy them. Anything you try to inculcate, any habit, any virtue, it automatically signals you do not possess it. Because, when you have it, you just search it within you, you don't externally imbibe. All I am saying is you cannot genuinely learn anything you already don't possess. Any habit creation, any virtue imbibing is all external and hence fake. All good behavior, display of morality is mere mimicry and hence nothing natural about it. The natural doesn't work. The natural just knows and knowing itself becomes a deed and it is done. Talent doesn't work for a reason. Here I may sound bizarre, but I am solely for talent and not hard work. I think Hardwork today has become a conformist category in the neo-liberal economy. I think more and more there is a need to embrace what you already have rather than striving hard for becoming something you will never fully become but only do a cheap mimicry. And yes, you cannot fake it and make it. Fuck you!
So, coming back, yes so, all human behavior is a cheap mimicry. From language to emotion and from science to social convention and even mass mentality. Man, as we know it, is a fake. No happy ending this time. Fuck you! thank you for reading. Ok wait, you need to search what you already have. Because you can only become what you already are. Stop bluffing. A teacher cannot become a civil servant. A civil servant can only become a civil servant. A scientist cannot become an engineer. An engineer can only become an engineer. A lawyer can only become a lawyer, may be at times a bad poet but yes. The fact remains, you cannot become anything you already are not. So, stop mimicry.
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