How can we reconcile the impersonal with the personal?

...The personal and impersonal

How can we reconcile the impersonal with the personal?

In love you raise the object to life. The personification of objects. When you love an object it becomes life. When you assign an attribute to an object, with human attributes and emtions as in projecting oneself. A TV is tired after 18 hrs of viewing it, kicking a computer and saying it is stupid. For children everything is personal. Children take each object they play with and give it a persona thereby make it totally personal. Even a stone has a face; rocks can jump, even the sun laughs and the moon cries. When you attach emotion, the whole creation becomes personal. When you remove the emotion, even people become objects. Violence is removing the emotion. How a person can kill another person: it is when they do not see them as a person, they see them as an object. But even a stone attracts reverence when it becomes personal.

..."Sorry, but there was a glitch in the system!" How many times have you heard that! ‘The system’. The system is down!Anything that is presented as a personal or an impersonal entity that the human entity on the side of that so called 'system' could not do anything about, due to inability, insecurity or inadequacy, lack of knowledge about the system, capacity or capability and it certainly wasn’t your fault. But then, how could the person on the side of the system, a person with a name and certainly with some sort of personality be guilty. “It was the system.” Even when you look at the songs that bear the title of impersonal’ or 'personal' The “Impersonal World” are usually unknown quantities.

So, the contrary is also a case in point, therefore... When writers encounter such situations, the first name that probably comes to mind is Kafka. A person against the system, or more precise, vice versa. But then come the questions — who created the system; who is operating it? It's usualy the loose nut between the keyboard and the screen. And about two thousand and one questions that go along. A person or persons, of course. A system is usually just an excuse so that aggrieved party is actually the one that certainly bears the brunt of somebody else’s mistake or nobody did it mistake.

Because there is always somebody else. No matter how impersonal it is made to be it has some sort of persona attributed to it - a personality, and that includes the currently developed and debated artificial intelligence. Writers should always give that impersonal entity some sort of personality because no matter how much somebody else tries to hide behind a Chinese wall of impersonality, there’s always a person or system in a world that is being set up by humans for humans. In the end, it turns out that writing about ‘a system’ is still writing about ourselves.

Will there be mistakes in that writing than makes impersonal personal or vice versa? Certainly. Because no matter how many times it was repeated and how trite it sounds, we all make mistakes. ‘The system ‘ obviously does.

Dean says: In military training they teach soldiers to see people as killing objects coming toward you that need to be killed first.

Susannah says: In the temple even a stone is elevated to the level of spirit.

The impersonal cannot attract reverence. Most people see God as impersonal and therefore they do not progress.

Dean and Susannah say: "That's why we need a Guru!"

Chan says: When we say something isn't real, then it's impersonal. When we personalize

something, we make it real. So then, what is reality?

You are the Reality. You are not the thoughts, you are not the emotions nor actions. You are not even a person...!

Impersonal Selves
http://www.voice-dialogue-inner-self-awareness.com/impers77.html

“How to Grow Old” by Bertrand Russell
https://sites.google.com/site/gobenyan/essay

Exercise: What you now see as impersonal, see it as personal. And when you feel any negative emotion towards anybody, see them as impersonal. And pretend that you yourself are a robot.