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The torment of understanding

Monday, August 5, 2024 2:12

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Oh! to believe, to believe with his whole soul, to plunge into faith for ever! Doubtless there was no other possible happiness. He longed for faith with all the joyousness of his youth, with all the love that he had felt for his mother, with all his burning desire to escape from the torment of understanding and knowing, and to slumber forever in the depths of divine ignorance.

Émile Zola – Lourdes (1894)

There is a limit, vague and diffuse perhaps, but there is a limit to what people are willing to understand. Worlds beyond the comfort zone are understandable in principle, but no, we don’t go there.

It’s an important distinction between what we are able to understand and what we are prepared to understand and allow into our established viewpoints. There is a viewpoint censor in case we find ourselves adrift on the strange sea of other possibilities, other people, other worlds.

The eternal indifference of the universe, the unimaginable vastness, the absence of purpose may be abstractions, but they are not abstractions we generally contemplate with enthusiasm in our day to day life. We need local human viewpoints, especially when we catch bleak glimpses of the impersonal behind our local reality. We reject the torment of understanding – the lure of the impersonal tempting us away from those comfort zones.

How do we cope with it in our digital world of instant communication?

Not too well apparently.

Even so, we are all aware that understanding ought to be better than not understanding. This was the core of Spinoza’s philosophical journey, he saw understanding as blessedness, the only thing worth striving for. Yet instead of understanding things ourselves, we have the option of proxies, someone else or some institution which purports to understand on our behalf.

Large numbers of politicians wilfully misunderstand the job they are supposed to be doing. Or they avoid understanding it, which amounts to the same thing. Political parties and big media promote themselves as proxies for understanding abstract ideas such as freedom, democracy, integrity, veracity, science, progress, government… even facts… even common sense.

Politically active people such as environmental activists use some obvious proxies. The catastrophe narrative is their proxy for understanding the environment – and themselves. A more impersonal understanding is evaded, personal motives, even emotions are hidden behind the proxy, out of reach.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-torment-of-understanding.html

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