Friday, November 13, 2015

Enlughtenment through Invisibility

As the prologue of "Invisible Man" continues, the main character gives us a true sense of his own little world he has created. By being "invisible" he sees society from a new perspective and gives us his own analysis of the normal way of life. From living in a hole in the ground, to putting up 1,369 lights in said hole, he truly believes living irresponsibly is the one way to feel alive. While giving his own insight, he not only questions everybody's sense of self importance, but even goes so far as to blame his assault victim for his injuries because of this social selfishness. In my opinion, his mindset is one that can relate to a modern day Buddhism. Now before I continue let me clear up that beating up people for being selfish and stealing from big business was and never will be a form of actual Buddhism. Buddhism is truly about self awakening or enlightenment. He describes his days of sitting in his highly lit room (possible pun for enLIGHTenment?) as a tranquil experience, filled with sounds and vibrations that he has learned to fully understand. This description is very synonymous with meditation and with a clear understanding of new ideas afterwords, can also describe enlightenment. Whatever his real intentions are with his practices, to find happiness or just his own therapy, is unknown, but I feel as though his questionable acts and skewed thought process can be described as a new age, chaotic neutral type of Buddhism.    

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