This is yet another article which attacks, delusions in our mind. Throughout the blog you may find these pieces of wisdom. Recently I found out that, some people like to live in the delusion, voluntarily, as they fear the reality or due to some other reason. Stupidity is not to understand the truths, but to ignore it is also, isn't it? You may have heard about the third person, somewhere along your line of work. This is just some philosophical explorations into the idea.
We will start by examining the meaning of third person in different contexts, in brief before the discussion
Third person Hallucinations.
Sometimes, severe depression or psychiatric illnesses lead to third person delusions. In these the person starts to hear voices (hence auditory) and even visual hallucinations. And they are constantly being disturbed by these sensory inputs. If you have watched Professor Nash in the movie beautiful mind, it is something similar.
Third person effect.
In psychology, third person effect is that you feel some political or environmental effect is not going to affect you. A good example is a tsunami or a natural disaster. Imagine you are in a costal house. And you may think a tsunami will never destroy your house, but the fact is it is most likely destroyed. Your house is no stronger than other houses. If you live in a mountain, you will think a landslide will not occur in your neighborhoods. Or even politics or global warming would not affect you. This is also elicited in the following quote.
"First They started, taking Jews, I did not bother, that was not my war.
Then they started recruiting soldiers, I did not bother, I had no sons.
And one morning they knocked on my door."
Third person narrative
Third person narrative is common in literature, novels. When JK Rowling wrote about Harry potter, it was by a third person. It was like a person looking at Harry walking down the Secret Chamber and she could see even Harry's thoughts, not even Harry but Ron as well. You may ask who is the first and second person?
First person narrative is when writers write about it in the perspective of the main character. Writer becomes the character and starts telling the story. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a good example of this. You find all other characters from the viewpoint of Jane Eyre herself. However, the perspective can change. Even in the same novel, or the movie. In the movie Flipped, you would see the same event is played twice in two different perspectives, one from Julie Baker and other from Bryan's perspective.
Second person narrative is when you become the main character. This is rare in fiction at least. But you may find this in philosophical articles and often in this blog. It came to my knowledge only today that I have written many of the thought experiments in the second person perspective. It is necessary why?
If you read my previous article, prisoners of mind, you would notice when we see the world we only see it from our point of view. Really speaking no one can become a first person and look the world from another persons perspective, or drift your consciousness outside and look at the world from the third person perspective. From morning till night, everything happens to you, and you are doing everything, In the little part of the world which comes into your vision of consciousness. Everything inclusive lives and dies in this part of the world. You do not know whether amazon rain forest exists, before I produce that question here. And you can never know it does or does not, this exact second. Can you see? If I do want to talk about reality I have to talk about in second person. I have to invite you to become observer of the universe and observe, what is observed is only the observer. Hence, what you see is not what it is but who you are, as this second person does not exist without anything being observed, just like a shadow, is not a thing, and neither a tree, observed is not a thing, neither is a observer. We forget the fact sometimes there is only the second person, hence our minds are delusional, if not all the time.
That's a lot, I know it is hard to digest. Hence I wrote a second person paragraph for you to read and enjoy. And ignore the insane truth about our everyday delusions of first, second and third person perspectives of the world, as these are just narratives.
You are on the platform, old looking, Victorian build dusty roof rise above you. You do not dare to look up fearing that dust will fall onto your eyes and makes you blind, as generations of trains have put their mark with soot from burning coal and fumes on those roofs. Iron bars which were brough from Germany Ages ago, still hold on, like proud little dictators. You cannot lean on to the pillars, as they are no dissimilar from the roof, with dust and dirt. Yet, constant touch by moving crowd has made marks on them which cannot be found on the roof. You see the scratch marks, occasional scribblings of young boys, who wanted to send a message across time into the future. You made a little smile, remembering the boys while receiving their message, and wonder what they are doing today. Are they busy, in an office with four walls, a roof and a floor, struggling to impress their boss, at the end of the hard-working day? Your smile disappears when you realize, those free spirits may not be so free today, unless they said goodbye to the world. You realize, maybe, maybe he is just behind you, looking at you, reading his message from afterlife.
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