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Dialogue With Arthur Schopenhauer

Do men have a right to live or is it an obligation 
for men to survive in this world of full of disgust?
That decision, though no one but men themselves have to make,
the blind evil almighty WILL, 
the way, way, greater will than that of men,
does not allow this world as the world that for men to live with 
at least comforts—in fact, though we must struggle to survive,
come to think of it, this bitter human world may well be
a better place than paradise, no one ever visited heaven, 
but we are told so.

Then, where in this rotten world 
the seed of tragedy hides its effects on human lives,
and makes men more miserable than ever?
Perhaps, though, the reason for tragedy may have resulted from blindness of the evil almighty WILL.
It rests on men’s lives for men cannot gouge their eyeballs 
out from their eye sockets to become blind themselves like 
the evil almighty WILL.

If the blind WILL’s temperament is to exact obedience of men
to its one-sided tyrannous power, all phenomena men can feel:
rains, winds, moon, sun, and twinkling stars
should be the implements of torture to men.

The helpless men under this absolute power,
however, should not allay the will that is to live
with colorless asceticism, the will of desirelessness,
but create gigantic eyeballs and stick them in WILL’s deep
and hollowness like the bottom of a bottomless pit to provide
it with a sight of acute discernment.

And if it can be done,
rains, winds, moon, sun, and the twinkling stars 
are just another movement of the part of universe,
the beginning and forever blessing to all mankind on the face of earth.

Nonetheless, there problems in human society 
remain still, and that is, even in this great blessing,
men would add more ugliness to the ugliness that men shaped 
and carry as a second nature. [History proves it.]

Then, eyeballs that see the world with keen eyesight 
should fabricate, 
not for great WILL, 
but for men themselves, to see rightly.

Copyright © Su Ben | Year Posted 2015

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