Ontological Conflicts

Description and Table of Contents

Men and women are loyal to their own ontological world, since if they weren’t they would undermine the foundation of the self they are being. Because of this loyalty, ontological conflicts can develop between two people or two groups of people who are at different, and low, degrees of realself. Simply because of the way degrees of realself are structured, a person or a group of people can think that another person or group is at a wrong degree of realself. For example, living in an ego boundary, as socialself and decreasing realself people do, warps people’s understanding of life and makes them believe in erroneous, ego-boundaried ideas. A decreasing realself man may believe in the ego-boundaried idea of nationalism because his ego boundary has fooled him into thinking that those people of that other country truly are different from and inferior to him and his fellow citizens. Ontologically insightful people know this nationalistic idea is wrong because their thinned ego boundaries and their awareness of their realselves makes them aware that everyone is his or her realself before everything else. And this knowledge makes these insightful people know that ontologically the citizens of other countries are exactly the same as they are and their fellow citizens.

Part One: Socialself and Realself Conflicts

Chapter 1: No Realself Gratification from Socialself Life
  Realself Life Versus Socialself Life
  The Fringe of Being
  Being Asleep and Being Awake
  Hollowness and Hunger
  Asceticism

Chapter 2: Telling the Truth and Being True
  “The Truth Must Be Told.”
  “He Can Maintain the Deception No Longer.”
  “What a Relief It Is to Look into an Eye that Recognizes Me for What I Am!”
  “The Alienated . . . Lack the Ability to Repress.”
  Masks, Facades, and Coughing

Chapter 3: Ennui, Futility, Death
  Ontological Ennui
  Meaninglessness and Futility
  Visions of Death

Chapter 4: Being-in-the-Socialself World Is Wrong
  “The Taboo Grounds of Outer Life”
  Subtle Pressures
  X in the Socialself World Is Often Y in the Realself World

Chapter 5: Increasing Realself People and Socialself Life
  “This Is Wrong, We Are Acting in a Wrong Spirit.”
  Outsiders

Chapter 6: Decreasing Realself People’s and Socialself People’s Outlook on Life
  Life in Boundaries

Part Two: The Increasing Realself Person and Socialself Life

Chapter 7: Optimism and Pessimism
  Happiness and Ontological States
  “My Single Constancy Is Love of Life.”

Chapter 8: Conformism
  “Do Conform Ontologically.”
  “Don’t Conform Ontologically.”

Chapter 9: Loyalty
  Loyalty to One’s Realself and to the Realself World
  Enforced Loyalty to the Socialself World

Chapter 10: The “System”
  “It Was the ‘System’ that Was Punishing Me.”

Chapter 11: Engulfment
  Oppression
  Engulfment

Chapter 12: Isolation
  Isolating Oneself from Socialself Life
  Being Isolated from Socialself Life

Chapter 13: Spontaneity
  Realself Being Is Spontaneous
  “The Spontaneous Person Will Rape, Rob, and Plunder.”

Chapter 14: Putting on One’s Socialself
  The Socialself as Clothing for the Realself
  Crossing Over the Boundary
  Yawning

Part Three: Life in the Socialself World and in the Realself World

Chapter 15: Socialself World Success
  Success and Failure in the Socialself World
  “Only the Best Is Good Enough for Me.”
  Ability
  The Reason Socialself World Success Is Wrong
  “I’m Sick of Not Having the Courage to Be an Absolute Nobody.”
  An Example of Ontological Success
  Increasing Alienation

Chapter 16: Ontological Equality
  Equality Is “Self-Evident” Ontologically
  Competition

Chapter 17: Ideology
  The Ideological Is Realself Ontological
  Censorship

Chapter 18: The Natural World
  The Ego Boundary in the Natural World
  “I Am at My Best Here.”
  Animals

Part Four: Ego-boundaried Life and the Ontological Zeitgeist

Chapter 19: Capitalism and Socialism
  Capitalism
  Socialism
  Why Do Decreasing Realself People Hate Socialism?
  A Slow Change

Chapter 20: Crime and Violence
  Crime and Beginning States of the Transition
  Capital Punishment

Chapter 21: Ego-boundaried Ideas
  Nationalism
  Wars

Chapter 22: The Ontological Zeitgeist
  The Ontological Ebb and Flow of Societies
  The Zeitgeist’s Zenith
  The Declining Zeitgeist
  The Zeitgeist’s Nadir
  The Inclining Zeitgeist

Chapter 23: In the Future
  Realself Being and Realself Life Are Inevitable

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