Chapter 144: When Words Lose Its Meaning

This is an open letter. Anyone can read it.

I do not know who I am, or where I am speaking from. I do not even know where I live and what kind of work I am currently doing. I admit, I am often burdened by the weight of life decisions and difficult choices to be made. I act as the main utility agent involving the thought process of rational beings, and what makes man, the being of substance that he must be, achieve his full potential as the human person.

I am known as the superego. Some layperson (who are not psychologists themselves) may simply know me as "the conscience."

My main job, according to the postulates of Freudian psychology, is to act as the fiscalizing agent responsible for the balancing of the desires of the human psyche. I am usually responsible for restraining the rational being for him to conform with acceptable societal standards, recognize what is right from what is wrong, and whether or not the body should act on the desires of the flesh, the preservation of one's self through man's inherent survival instincts, the well-functioning of the associated muscular reflexes of human physiology, and the entirety of the thought process in general.

In my official duty governing the emotions and the associated impulses traversing the interaction of the defined personality and the neurotransmitters responsible for the mind to cause behavior and create a picture of the things he needed to see, either this is part of the perceived reality or only imagined notwithstanding, as opposed to the sensory experience, the faculty of the brain responsible for intelligence, and the feelings of emotion and guilt are the primary vehicles of my thorough participation in the rationalization process.

And in my entire career so far, I have determined that the main failure of man in showcasing his inherent conscience as the main controller of his psychological responses primarily centers on one fundamental thing. It is the desensitization of the person's will to become good: to pursue what is noble, what is just, and what is fair.

But I guess I have the need to explain myself further.

The moment the mind senses something that is difficult, it finds a way to inform the body that something is not normal. And as the body seeks to resolve this perceived anomaly, the mind gradually gathers thoughts from its own faculty, mainly searching for related experiences that will try to make sense of the resulting feeling of distress or tiredness or even fear, in order for the human body to act on the "danger" by the mind's self-preservation premises by natural selection.

But not all changes occuring in the body are bad, because the body normally changes to adapt to his environment, like, for example, gaining muscles when the body reacts to the difficulty of physical exercise.

The body evolves in as much as the emotions change by the process of gaining depth and intelligence. Through painful experiences, the body adjusts itself to anything that it perceives to be perilous, and then a sensation of danger or fear follows, which it normally communicates through the neurotransmitters that the present condition poses a threat to life and well-being.

In the transforming power of unfavorable conditions, the body teaches itself the proper way of discerning and responding to stimuli. Teachers may call this particular learning as discipline; after all, this is a universal truth to be accepted: that everything is difficult at first, before something becomes too familiar to the human intellect and physiology that manifests in the form of desirable habit and excellence. 

Ergo, education is an indispensable element of the learning process that results to wisdom.

I have found it silly for most rebellious minds that in order to defeat the superego without exerting execessive effort, one may only train his mind (and his thought process) to lose its trust in the predetermined meaning of words, that everything is designed to be a lie in order to exploit the unfortunate condition of vulnerability, that poverty is the callous result of the greed of the ruling class, that equivocation points to the defects of irrational ideals; that to succeed in deceiving those who have no voice in society, the only way to enforce the laws is to give the people a certain form of moral philosophy to prevent them from seeking liberation through defiance and disobedience.

I have nothing else further to testify.

Very truly yours,

THE SUPEREGO

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This Chapter is sponsored by Giorgio Armani.