Be the one. Humanity is a funny bunch. The less conscious people are the more likely they are to mock and confront those with perceived differences in appearance and class especially. There is individual and mass consciousness, evident in the behavior differences of friends when they are with you or with certain groups of others. People will behave less consciously when in certain groups and when they encounter a perceived outsider. If you are the one, outsider or insider, you set the tone of the group, or at least don’t let the tone of the group set you.
Wear an exceptional but different or funny hat. Be distinct. Wear the hat for sun or cold protection and take note how people react to you simply wearing a suitable hat.
Don’t go so far as to get yourself hurt, in that if your society won’t tolerate your hat, wear a different shoelace, so to speak. Be the one that everyone laughs at. See if they can look you in the eyes when they are doing so. Then take off the hat. Be on the side that the predominant ostracize and act like the hat is not an experiment to reveal them, and then show them how wrong they were for making assumptions that the funny hat was you.
You are real and beyond any hat or shoes. Their reaction or problem with an exceptional hat is revealing of their character, problematic and otherwise.
Be the one to raise your hand and ask the question in situations where the predominant expect silence. “Is there a problem with my hat?” Or perhaps put in more empathetic terms, not necessarily in correspondence with any hat, “Is everything OK?’
Be the one to lend a hand for assistance. Be the one to grab the hand of someone acting violently. Be the one to say demonstratively, ‘no’ or ‘yes,’ whatever happens to be contrarian to the swayed collective predominant consciousness sunk in a wrongful pattern. Be the one that they laugh at and later look to in awe. Make sure you look them in their eyes when doing so. See if they can look at you back when they are judging you for being different, for a hat. You will become little intimidated by others if you might have been.
All great purveyors of consciousness are ridiculed and lunged upon, often repeatedly, and then they fight back. All great consciousness practices defense literally or figuratively. This is philosophically represented in Hegel’s Master Slave Dialectic, the story of Jesus, the story of Buddha, the story of Moses and millions of other stories of people proverbially standing up for themselves and for others, and for becoming. Always be the one to shake off people riding the backs of mass consciousness. You will be ridiculed, and you will be respected, as the one always is, and the shallowness and hollowness of others will be revealed – to them.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ~Sun Tzu
No matter if war or peace wearing the funny hat might reveals those around you as friend or foe for one, a high art in war and in any relationship, and builds tolerance to the mundane prodding of others. In a way wearing a funny hat is a way to be yourself.
Be yourself and put forth your vision. Find a hero to identify with, besides those in contemporary circles, that you can aspire to be like, perhaps in how they stood up to their contemporaries. Most all heroes always break away from the contemporary crowd. Jesus was loved by all individuals, and was hated by all the predominant institutions of his day, because he put forth his own vision. Be like Noah. He built his ark and as he built his dream while everyone made fun of his funny ship. Be like Ganesh. Ganesh, the elephant headed Hindu god, the god of writers, is also known as the obstacle breaker and obstacle maker to bullies and such. If it is difficult to embody being the one as a leader, or hero, or the one of exception, start by being the one wearing a funny hat. It reveals your character and the character of others.
Wear an exceptional but different or funny hat. Be distinct. Wear the hat for sun or cold protection and take note how people react to you simply wearing a suitable hat.
Don’t go so far as to get yourself hurt, in that if your society won’t tolerate your hat, wear a different shoelace, so to speak. Be the one that everyone laughs at. See if they can look you in the eyes when they are doing so. Then take off the hat. Be on the side that the predominant ostracize and act like the hat is not an experiment to reveal them, and then show them how wrong they were for making assumptions that the funny hat was you.
You are real and beyond any hat or shoes. Their reaction or problem with an exceptional hat is revealing of their character, problematic and otherwise.
Be the one to raise your hand and ask the question in situations where the predominant expect silence. “Is there a problem with my hat?” Or perhaps put in more empathetic terms, not necessarily in correspondence with any hat, “Is everything OK?’
Be the one to lend a hand for assistance. Be the one to grab the hand of someone acting violently. Be the one to say demonstratively, ‘no’ or ‘yes,’ whatever happens to be contrarian to the swayed collective predominant consciousness sunk in a wrongful pattern. Be the one that they laugh at and later look to in awe. Make sure you look them in their eyes when doing so. See if they can look at you back when they are judging you for being different, for a hat. You will become little intimidated by others if you might have been.
All great purveyors of consciousness are ridiculed and lunged upon, often repeatedly, and then they fight back. All great consciousness practices defense literally or figuratively. This is philosophically represented in Hegel’s Master Slave Dialectic, the story of Jesus, the story of Buddha, the story of Moses and millions of other stories of people proverbially standing up for themselves and for others, and for becoming. Always be the one to shake off people riding the backs of mass consciousness. You will be ridiculed, and you will be respected, as the one always is, and the shallowness and hollowness of others will be revealed – to them.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” ~Sun Tzu
No matter if war or peace wearing the funny hat might reveals those around you as friend or foe for one, a high art in war and in any relationship, and builds tolerance to the mundane prodding of others. In a way wearing a funny hat is a way to be yourself.
Be yourself and put forth your vision. Find a hero to identify with, besides those in contemporary circles, that you can aspire to be like, perhaps in how they stood up to their contemporaries. Most all heroes always break away from the contemporary crowd. Jesus was loved by all individuals, and was hated by all the predominant institutions of his day, because he put forth his own vision. Be like Noah. He built his ark and as he built his dream while everyone made fun of his funny ship. Be like Ganesh. Ganesh, the elephant headed Hindu god, the god of writers, is also known as the obstacle breaker and obstacle maker to bullies and such. If it is difficult to embody being the one as a leader, or hero, or the one of exception, start by being the one wearing a funny hat. It reveals your character and the character of others.
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