Under My Skin

Pondering this I am OB1 …

“A difference between Eastern and Western psyche is perhaps that in the West we are now much more focused on the “individual” where traditional Eastern cultures of times past (and perhaps somewhat today) tend to be focused on the abstract, human collective.”

Having travelled around the East in various guises, backpacker through to businessman, I somehow have the feeling that this ‘abstract human collective’ is a bit of a furphy sold to us by certain Eastern types.

When you scratch the surface they aren’t so different over there.

They just go to greater lengths to pretend that shit don’t get under their skin.

And, they have a higher threshold for not cracking under pressure due to the daily practice they get.

The detached ones, the monks and the like, just can’t take daily life so they have to get out of there.

And all of this is hard-wired right into their culture so that none of these thoughts impact them consciously.

It’s quite easy to set your intentions and look all spiritual if you live in a society that values the appearance of institutionalised detachment from other people and the neocortex.