Discomfort

Discomfort brings about the desire to find its source. this, so the discomfort can be dealt with.

The search for a source is the search of "why", and it traces through causes and consequences until it finds an assignable discrepancy.

When found, the discomfort is assigned to this source, and that is the act of blame.

A common human habit is to separate, or reject, pieces of the world from ourselves, and to use them as common or default repositories of blame, like (giant) conceptual trash cans. This reduces the effort it takes to find the source of a discomfort. Such a habit is preferred by many because the process of searching for a cause is effortful, uncertain, treads in the unknown, and in the case of discomfort, this search is done while feeling discomfort, which can motivate one to speed up and rush the process.

Like it is easier to throw all waste material into a large garbage container, than it is to differentiate it and place it in different containers, each with different modes of treatment.

A default source of discomfort, we need to reject from ourselves, because it needs to be made foreign and unknown. Were it not, we would be faced directly with the task of fixing and healing all the discomfort we have assigned to it.

As that seems an unpleasant and often gigantic task, most people choose to not venture into it.

And while it is not ventured into, those conceptual areas, those sources of discomfort, are considered the "enemy", or "evil". And if sufficient human units agree on what these sources of discomfort are, they coalesce and congeal into the well-known "common evils".

And these vary in generality and in scope. From the bulk of humanity that blames its miseries on the fabled devilish fiends proclaimed in stories and religions,

through the national rivalries and splinterings that consider each other the source of their problems,

through the rivalries between families in a neighborhood or between individuals or siblings,

into the very splinterings of our personalities that allow parts of us to blame the other parts for our failures, miseries, and mistakes,

these splinterings result from the congealment

of sources of discomfort we "learn to default to"...

and eventually separate and reject from ourselves

as fiercely and as radically

as sports teams reject their rivals,

as political extremes reject their opponents,

as quarrelling couples reject one another.

We have a mechanism of fixing our discomforts,

and we turn it into a method of segmentation,

because we procrastinate on diving into the complex and uncomfortable

that, regardless, is part of who we are.

Common blame-recipients are:

"the government"

"the ambitious politicians"

"the unthinking masses"

"the greedy rich"

"the desperate poor"

"the criminals"

"the greedy corporations"

"the foolish religions"

"the tyrannical systems"

"the deceitful media"

"the evil spirits"

and many more.

Any conceptual entity can serve

as a default source of discomfort

and it will remain like that

neglected, rejected, unfixed, un-understood,

especially within us,

and the pollution of its rejection will seep into other parts of ourselves

unless we dive deep into it

and strive to understand

past the facade of the "evil entity"

what is inside it.

What causes the discrepancies

that affect us and we directly feel.

What is IN what we reject?

How does it work? What is it made of?

What are the forces that guide it and coordinate it,

and how would I feel, to be THAT,

and why does it do

what it does

or what I THINK it does.

There is not a thing we are not.

Blame is not a solution.

Healing needs understanding

at least to the point of acceptance.