Blog Marcos L. Mucheroni Filosofia, Noosfera e cibercultura

The brain rot has a face that is not easily detected: narcissism. The Greek myth that gave rise to the name of this pathology is that Narcissus thought he was so beautiful that he spurned several suitors until he fell in love with his own image and died of hunger and thirst on the banks of a river that reflected his own image (in the photo, a drawing found in Pompeii).

By sticking to our own convictions, values and customs, we develop narratives that justify our worldview, our position or even despise others that may seem reasonable, but I prefer to follow my own guidelines.

The Other is thus a negativity for the narcissist, in philosophy it’s not just people or a distinct entity in relation to oneself, it can also be the diversity of experiences, cultures, beliefs and habits, in short everything that synthesizes a new worldview, different from Narcissus.

Thus, media trends that emphasize a certain behaviour and way of thinking are a dangerous instrument of brain rot, creating narratives and truths that seem true, but in general they abuse marketing, the use of sounds and images that trap the follower.

At the root of everything is idealism and the idea of “models” to be followed, but at a more advanced stage with the use of media, fixing ideas and concepts depends on a certain marketing skill and the use of reliable, sometimes even intelligent, things, the idea of simplicity and the difficulty of understanding the complex is what makes this methodology possible.

The Other, in a nutshell, is everything that is not a mirror, everything that is far from what we have as a model, whether it’s my worldview, my beliefs or, more complicatedly, different political positions.

The fact that a new methodology is needed, such as the hermeneutic circle that proposes the fusion of horizons before “dialog”, a new epistemology that escapes the bipolarity of Being is and not Being is not, creating a third included, like the one already pointed out in modern quantum physics.

So it’s not necessarily a convergent dialog, but one that starts from a common point, there is an initial fusion of horizons, in other words, it starts from a certain initial “convergence”.

Considering the Other is essential in order to escape bipolarization and the common sense of simplistic explanations for complex issues. Here too, a certain simplicity may be necessary: the Other, although not a mirror, has something in common, at the very least the fact that we share the same historical moment, the same era and the same desire for peace.