Buffet

Understanding complex social interactions is necessary and especially necessary when you realise that the society can be made to act as a second superego other than the superego you already have. The model of id, ego and superego is useful in properly decoding the sociopolitics around us and the ultimate realisation about the world that we live in is that it’s nothing but economics and finance that affect or even control the sociopolitical reality around us. Some people in the society have to live with two superegos, and this is the arrangement that can be termed as oppression or even exploitation. Among the two superegos one superego is natural and internal that a person develops while during developmental phases from a child to an adult and another is imposed by the entity that governs lives of people, the biopolitical entity that manages people in this country and the world. My approach to analysis is bottomline analysis, I judge the reality by bottomlines. Even at a personal level I can’t really enjoy luxuries if I see people in the society, especially good and underprivileged, getting exploited and even tortured. Their state hence becomes a bottomline for me. If a person has a mindset like me, he, since one’s survival is important for the people they love, goes back to the basics. Like food, clothing, shelter, health, and financial security and, as much as the social arrangement allows, social security. And for recreation, nature and one’s interests and hobbies. Every other thing, for an idealistic person, when he witnesses the reality of systemic gatekeeping becomes redundant. If a person who truly like rock music is prevented from attending rock music concerts through gatekeeping it becomes kind odd but this not a tragedy, the tragedy, once one sees into the true soul of this nation, is that people are systematically gatekept from things as basic as food. Though my tragedy is not that, I, due to being in the field of medicine, am not only witnessing systemic gatekeeping but also passive genocide which as ones come to know the depth of the system we live in, starts to seem kind of very active. Reality if one comes across it is hard to digest but one has to learn to live with it. Oppression in the country we live in is very intimate and one has to learn to come to terms with the second superego that the entity that rules us imposes while at the same time making ourselves capable of rejecting it when it is required. One lives for quite a while and they realise that only authentic professions are farming and business and every other profession is an extension of these two and are basically skills that help people bring food to the table. Even if even considered different professions as complete in themselves, what makes those professions valid are the ethics associated with them, divorced from the ethics, they just become transactions, exchange of goods and services. Like take the example of medicine, it’s just a business of providing services in exchange of money if we divorce it from ethics. I, being in the field, have seen things like sexualization of medical procedures, not by doctors thankfully, but by politics of the land. Once one sees this happening one readily realises that ethics in this country with respect to profession have collapsed and now professions are just business, providing goods and services in exchange of money. It’s just like the builders provide you a house in exchange for money. Once one sees total collapse of professional ethics in this country one realises that it can’t really happen, given one is aware of control pervading people, without mindless exploitation. Social interaction in the setting we live in give us hints about the reality we live in and I think one must cherish the personal relationships they have and cultivate formal and professional relationships for survival and hope that survival isn’t that difficult that they can’t go beyond to search for contentment.