Fuente Ovejuna, Wants and Needs

NOBODY BLAMES HAPPY MAN
-HOMER SIMPSON-

Grumbling at somethin one or everyone around don't want or don't like has no sense. Better do something for common good. Simple as it sounds? Unfortunatelly not. The reason, why in our times is impossible to act against something we don't like, is that we are not sure about common attitude as the villagers in Fuente Ovejuna were. Declaring our opinion is so easy, but the act of disagreement is not. If one would possibly act in the way of resistance, he cannot depend on everyone taking the blame. Lope de Vega describes this as a collective guilt.

My recent thoughts were about where we can see a collective guilt in our days. I don't want to exclude global climat changes, femine, or wars but I don't feel capable of writing about this kind of stuff, it's too global and hoary.

WHAT IS YOUR CHOISE?

The point I reached in finding collective guilt is zero. I can't imagine the enormous unity of people that would be necessary for some visible and reasonable act of disagreement. People believe in doing so in case of some global catastrophe or alien attack, but they would find it in movies, not in practice. I don't believe even some religious group could unify even small masses of people without someone playing on his own. 

It's hard to find someone unselfish, altruistic and free-minded who wouldn't choose himself before the others. And at the end, monks from the monastery far far away, will decide about survival of common good or self profit.

WANTS&NEEDS

..are closely  attached to this topic. 

I tried to distinguish between what I want and what I need. These terms usually cross, merge or sometimes eliminate each other. Using highschool math there is few possible combinations:

1. What we want is what we need.
2. What we need is what we want.
3. What we need is not what we want.
4. What we want is not what we need.
5. We don't know what we want or need.

SELF-PRESERVATION

These combinations do not count with common good, at all. Everyone (altruistic persons will forgive me) plays on his own, so don't try to save the world and enhance yourself. Self-preservation will solve this for you at the end.

“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”

Albert Einstein

Stay Conscious. B