Other People

Sikh depiction of:
Bhai Bala (ਭਾਈ ਬਾਲਾ) and
Bhai Mardana (ਭਾਈ ਮਰਦਾਨਾ)

Other People |
Wednesday – April 15, 2026

People are numerous these days. Really, people are all around these days, and this proximity to many people is not natural nor is it really something that is traditional or typical of human life under the Sun. Of course, this human density development is something that is strictly linked to modern civilizations. I guess the problem then becomes this: what will people think? First of all, historically and for most of history, recorded or not, it was the case that most people knew each other and really only very few people actually ever met a stranger. Sure, it may have been the case that most people throughout their lives at some points met strangers, but these where certainty exceptions. So yes, it would be quite natural for people to wonder and even worry about the opinions of other people, really an issue of free inquiry. So do people actually think anything in particular about you? Oh, almost certainly not, and it is actually quite funny that people seem to assume that other people that are complete strangers to them would think anything of them. Why would a man harbor all sorts of opinions about another man of whom he knows nothing? Well, I suppose the issue of politics and identity (political objects) come into play here because to a fairly large extend a lot of things are assumed about you by other people upon you making some kind of socially acceptable contact with them, but these thoughts are often so ingrained into the other people that they can hardly be considered thoughts; it would be more accurate to label them impulses, and besides these impulses rarely brake the noise floor. So, to answer that question: no, most people do not think anything in particular about you, as most people are busy with their own materialism. Also, why would you be so important? I mean, in modern societies it is hardly the case that you belong to the community, whatever the community is these days, so why would you stand out so much? Aren't most men just lost in supposedly "familiar places"? Also, because most things in our worlds tends towards uniformity in some kind of solidification, it is also the case that most people are actually quite similar to other people, both corporeally and in the psychic sense, and if you are walking around and worrying about other people, then it is quite sensible to assume that many other people do the same thing; this is really a pheromone that moderns refer to as "main character syndrome", as if something else was desirable, and really I must also point out that this attitude towards people being somewhat self aware is quite contradictory to the individualism of our days, but then again everything seems to be a vast contradiction when you really put it all together. This is also why there are so many hysterical and histrionic persons around today, because some people seek attention, and because more and more of other people's attention is being consumed by the continual change, read "The End of History", these histrionic persons, often young women, have to become more and more radical; I should also point out that while women appear to be more obsessed with attention, there are a certain amount of men with this same obsession as well, and they are often more extreme. Of course, people like this have existed in all times, but there are more in our times and they are more extreme, but this should, of course, be expected. So, if you are afraid that other people will think something of you, then let these bizarre people, often called "influences", remind you of how much you would actually have to work to garner the attention of humanity. It is also quite right that the attention span of modern humanity should have grown so small and so concentrated. Yes, modern people stare into their phones while losing sight of space; essentially their phones is space approaching the ontological limits of manifestation, and most of them appear to quite like that ever shrinking, confined space, that prison. So why would they pay any attention to you? Again, they do not, so let it go. And btw, talk about unqualified space, as the scholars would refer to it. Why would moderns even require vision past a couple of inches? Again, they really do not, or at least they, for the most part, would not, and this is why so many of them are nearsighted both in a corporeal sense and in a larger metaphysical sense.

    I suppose as well that it is easier because of the increasing complexity, though actually the opposite of complexity, of the world makes it rather hard to "connect", as they say, with other people? Yes, and to a large extend this was by design. Of course, multiculturalism and diversity are not virtues, but since political instruction and indoctrination requires them to be treated as such, most people fail to actually see the problem; they fail to actually see the world. So, most people simply walk around in a world of an increasingly abstract humanity, yet they proclaim themselves great proponents of humanism, which is another contradiction of course. No, humanity of today is not more human than humanity of any other time, of any other period, and indeed, for the most part people are more primitive today, and they are less "humane" today. Do people really understand other people? No, for the most part other people are, at best, a nuisance that have to be dealt with in a manner as frictionless as possible or even as hate objects, because other people are just abstractions, someone else that will face the wrath, but not me, never me. At least that is increasingly the prevailing characteristic of modern mentality. This is, again, highly unusual but makes for an ideal political landscape: when everyone can be treated merely as numerical units, as abstractions, then politics appears less crude and less cynical, and really this is a prerequisite for politics, for without the abstract mass, there would be no need for order, at least not order imposed by temporal power, order imposed without true and qualified authority.

    So, people are just people, right? I guess so, at least in our world, and at least during the reign of the Kali Yuga. What kind of society is this? This is not a society, and it never was; modern civilizations require a kind of anti-society, read "Life in the City".

Reginald Drax – April 15, 2026.