Do you ignore it in the hope that it'll go away?
Do you wait for others to take the first step and confirm your theory?
Do you investigate it carefully, contemplate it deeply, and then do everything you can to help it manifest as strange new behaviour?
Can self-evident be ignored?
Can self-evident be stifled?
Can self-evident wait for others?
Will the manifestation of that self-evidence look exactly the same for everybody?
Will it make it any easier to sacrifice the little true joy, happiness and security you have, on the results other weird people might have achieved but which can't be proved to work for you (until you do it and prove it to yourself). Will that really make it easier?
And can the behaviour and results of new behaviour be accurately predicted, can we make it safe and known? I guess this is the paradox of transformation -- we feel isolated, stuck, trapped, frustrated and caught in a narrative we don't really believe in (to one extent or another), and yet we want the way out to be known, predictable, safe and understood by our parents, friends, partners, children, neighbours and the dog.
Revolution... sure. As long there's guaranteed benefit and I don't have to lay anything of real value on the line.
And what could be of more value than your own personal identity and philosophy. Your narrative of how things work, and why and how you (we) should go about doing what you (we) do.
But what if self-evident compelled you to question your most deeply held beliefs, and in-so-doing you suspect you might just come to acknowledge that they themselves are the cause of your suffering and the source of the little happiness, meaning and purpose you have.
Would you be prepared to wager even that for more? Can you risk the real threat of falling into oblivion?
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