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Choice.
The problem
is choice.
Article by Tom Fisker Jørgensen
The choice
With the spread of the corona virus, you have been given a wonderful opportunity of a magnitude that is difficult to comprehend.
Rare, if ever occuring, are the moments in the span of a human lifetime, where simple choices could have an effect on our entire species.
Faced with the Architect in the second film in the Matrix-trilogy, Neo is presented with a similar choice. He has to choose between two doors. Door number one leads to the Source, and the salvation of Zion and the rebuilding of humanity. The second door leads back to the matrix and his love, Trinity, but also includes the possible extinction of the human race.
You are given a similar choice today between our race and your own joy. You can choose to stay home, and thus contribute to the salvation of humanity.
Or you can choose to follow your heart, the fulfillment of your own preferences, the path of Self love, indeed the indirect crowning of Corona.
The ethical choice
Humans make choices that are deeply rooted in their preferences, their convictions and their past experiences. Often, we make these choices without ever being conscious about them.
And under pressure, our choices become even more egoistic. But the time has come for us to make a conscious choice, a choice of hope for human kind, a choice for human kind.
“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort”. Those are the words of Carl Jung in “Modern man in Search of Soul from 1955. Can we go against our own preferences and choose love for mankind, and not just love for individual freedom?
The stakes are high these days, and everyone plays a part. You are in an epic movie right now, and it is up to you to act and invent your role. Will you choose to walk towards darkness or towards the light?
Hope lives on
In a funny twist, the godlike scriptwriter du jour has brought us to the following cliff: in order truly choose yourself, you have to choose humanity. That is a heavy burden on each of our shoulders. This is where, we should pause for a moment.
Really make a conscious choice, a choice of insights and self-awareness. Because, in reality, the bifurcation in front all of us is a rare gift.
You may argue with the words of the Architect: “Hope, it is quintessential human delusion; simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.” You are right, staying at home does not guarantee that we will conquer the virus.
Jumping into the unknown by staying at home, risking our job, our livelihood, our relations and loosing the trail we were following represents a costly and feeble hope.
Yes, the simplicity of the situation is contrasted by the monumental importance of your choice. But it is our leap of faith. And this choice holds rewards that you can otherwise only dream of.
Choosing to act against your own selfish preferences, not eating the marshmellow in front of you, is you stairway to agrandisement as a human being.
Strengthened through the pandemic
One of the precursors to Jung, Kierkegaard, would have called the situation right now the moment of truth. Right now, these extremely important days of history, you have to choose between the aesthetical mode of existence, which regards pleasure as the highest value in life, and the ethical mode where your choices are regulated by civic duty.
Indeed, that last one is right there for your picking.
“Enough”, you might think. “Soon, I will go back to my life as normal.” If that is you hope, you will have wasted the greatest moment in human history to become more than you were yesterday.
Your choice
Close your eyes. Well, after reading this. Connect with yourself and with humanity within you, and look for answers of how to act from now on. You may prefer to join social gatherings, but you can choose to stay home.
“But really, I am not contaminated, and I am not afraid of being contaminated.” As we know from the Architect, denial is the most predictable of all human responses. The real choice is choosing not to contaminate anyone.