The Dead Cat in Our Wall

To understand what it is to be human, we must look at what it is to be inhuman. Our immortal Gods and cyclical natural world presents that it’s our awareness of our own death that separates us. We know we can’t live forever, so death became our original and omnipresent shortfall.

From deficiency comes desire, and from desire we create the desirable. We die so we desire life, and so being able to truly live becomes our deepest held desirable that we base all other desires.

The distance between us and the transcendent exposes us to the world, and the world to us. It is why we can look at the sunset and feel fulfillment. We feel the distance, that we can never be nature and so we turn the sunset into something with value. By watching it we fulfill that desire as we have taken action towards it, even if it’s impossible to become it.

Our humanity is based on willing our existence, from this comes our ability to take action on the external world. We can point to things that are desirable and decide to take action towards them. This evolution birthed ethics and morality as now we have to decide which actions lead to our desires. Moving from the natural world to a moral one, gives us freedom. We give ourselves desires so that we can achieve them, so that our lives have meaning and our original lack of death has fulfillment. However it is not the achievement of attaining desires that fulfils us, it’s our choice to pursue and take action. To have fulfillment you must be free to make these choices and see a future where they may come to fruition. Freedom exists in reaching for an open future.