The effervescence of our frustration might be expressed through our aggression.
Expression, as expected, doesn’t have to be aggressive but sometimes some of us express through our silence and inaction.
The hibernation of our views, thoughts and actions might also be an expression of whatever external influences we find ourselves under.
Reality, as we all perceive it individually, poses to be the most felt, overwhelming and penetrating.
But the truth remains that the collectivity of our actions, directly or indirectly, reflects on our individual perception.
And since experience is a major ingredient in the make up of our individual behaviours, we can’t dichotomize the individual from the collective.
And we express ourselves differently based on how we perceive the encoding of informations that we agree with to be ideal is.
The scarcity of the needs we crave inhibits the peak expression of our innate behaviours, most of which are latent due to the scarcity of the resources needed for its full-fledged expression.
The absence of these potential abilities and expressions encode in our brain the lies that we accept as low self-esteem, low self-confidence, fear of the unknown, compromisation of our individual principles, and many more.
The fight remains that the result of the struggles to attain self efficacy and self actualisation pushes, especially the weak minded, in absorption of external blows to engage in unscrupulous means to attain the ends of comfort, pleasure, satisfaction, fulfilment and by extension, the betterment of society.
Mutual aid and selflessness are one of the key building blocks to creating a micro society that accommodates the willing and yearning mind to fully express themselves without the limitations of the struggles attached to meeting the basic needs for survival
Survival in this case evolves to strangulate the core of creativity, critical thinking and organic intellectualism as it makes it lose worth in a society that binds the growth and development of the immaterial to the artificial scarcity of the material.
Herein we have our fight; the fight to survive and keep creating all at the same time.
The definition of intelligence and creativity by the ill-structured system that binds this wonder with privilege, luck, and corruption.
The will to live is wave-like and directly proportional to the support system on ground to keep it alive.
It is essential that we have this as a commonplace thought; that our existence and the peak expression of our potentials as humans is dependent on the material conditions necessary for its continuity.
Hence the explanation for the deficiency and discrepancies in the ideal and total expression of our individual and collective potential is not far-fetched, complex nor complicated as it’s been main-streamly defined and accepted.
It’s a thoroughly and deliberately injected malicious cycle that is a subset of a mortal but decaying system that hunts the intrinsic capabilities of every individual and still blames our maladherence and maladpatability to its venomous and maladroitly structured fangs, bites, piercings, stabbings, asphyxiation, blindness, machiavellianism etc, on the individuals that are the victims of the deadliness of the system.
Mutual aid also eases the scalds of this societal dilemma we find ourselves to a bearable extent, and if strengthened, might embolden our will to actively fight systematically against the befoulment of our innate desire to be free and live free .
Humanism encourages every effort to eradicate the harm drizzled on our consciousness by the untiring wickedness of capitalism through one of the most communal ways which is mutual aid.
Feminism clamours for the detangling of the general and demeaning objectification and commodification of women which restricts their reach of impact and change in society.
Mutual aid is feminist, feminism is humanist.
Mutual aid, feminism and humanism are all remedies to the ills of our greed-ravaged society.
Written by Ejike Kelechi.
