Sunday, September 30, 2007
♥ Sunday, September 30, 2007
Misdirection.Houdini was it? He wanted to make something disappear, so he employed this technique- let your eyes see what they want to see, and let your ears hear what they want to, and thats it you believe.Create a direction, lead them on to believe what they want to believe. Like the matrix. And from there, you keep your deepest darkest self. ( i read faaarrr too many jodi picoult)I think colin is right and I am scary. But you have just got to admit...i am getting so damn good at it. How do i shut the door? Misdirection. It is not about lying. Lying is about not speaking the truth. Misdirection is about telling all the truths in bits and pieces. Telling the truth that lets one draw the eventual conclusion which is a lie. Its not about being hypocritical, believeing in one thing and doing another. Its about acting- believing in something and saying another. Its about theatrics, what you want people to know, and what kind of a puppet master you want to be. So perhaps the end of this question is, why misdirect? why let someone see you the way you arent?Because of what i said earlier. They want to see what they want to see. They want to believe what they want to believe. Jodi Picoult illustrates this with candour and courage- a mother doesnt want to know that her child is vulnerable, a daughter doesnt want to know that she was kidnapped by her father, a parent doesnt want to know that her son is the perpetrator to the loss of a hundred lives, a husband doesnt want to believe his wife is dead.And when they hope, Demosthenes will tell you that there is a certain precariousness..since as St Augustine of Hippo puts it ," can one not believe what he hopes in?" IN ENGLISH-You wanted to see something and know something so badly. So i will just show you that something.Thats the construct of belief. The leading down a certain direction, and at the end of that road is a question of choice- to believe or not. And more often than not, we already know what you are going to choose. You are going to choose what suits your moral code, what is fitting and what is to your liking. What is pleasant to your eye, melodious to your ears, and gives you the right dosage of endorphine to make you feel all wonderful and gay.And thats perfectly fine. I mean thats how people proselytise, and convert. How people judge one another, influence each other; how cultures and eventually societies are created. You basically bend people into showing what you want them to show.I will show you what you want to be shown. I just ask one thing. Don ask me be what you want me to be. Because you cant and because i wont allow it.
