….Shelly quoted the Treatise on Religion and the State in the original notes to Queen Mab, and began….
….His love of Spinoza had strengthened his friendship with Moses Mendelssohn; and in his great play, Nathan der Weise, he poured into one mould the conception of the Jew which had come to him from the living merchant and a dead philosopher..
. “Satyameva Jayate”—truth alone triumphs
I think appropriate knowledge can bridge the gap between “contexts”, and one would be able to perceive a situation better if one is allowed the contextual information. Say for example the conception that we have lot of bias towards popular works of any field. But not everything can be popular, so are we saying that people make wrong things popular or are we just questioning human brains that cannot know everything? I call that a contextual bias because owing to the inability to everything, we are in a way, always out of context.
If we consider only human brain and its various parts which work together and help us do what we do, as a context, than it is easy to see why sometimes a thing enters ours house, makes us believe that it is a part of us, teases us, tortures us but then gets out alone by saying that “human beings are bound to be emotional”. But really, it is actually a scientific fact that human brain has various compartments which work together. We sometimes rely on one part more than the other parts. So we are taught to use intuition for making most of our decisions, and we use it for leading a major part of life in which the respective part of the brain was ruling, after sometime, we use other parts.
Above scenario can get us bit out of context, but we may assume that we are in the context, because we have memory and we think the information that is presented to us is absolute. It is possible that everybody has these contextual skips, and we are as oblivious to it as an atheist is when he is asked –“Did you see god last night?” Well, trying to be a bit practical, we can get on with it a little better if we are a bit more aware about the all the contexts in a context, which might help let it be.
A case where this applies the most is whenever we try to make ourselves “better”.
That is a time when we forget about these contexts and think that we can raise ourselves to some godhood levels, the case, which may be something to do with just extending the human race and being a part of it.
Personally, I have a tough time reading books because I find myself out of context lot of times (few which I mentioned above). I really get pissed sometimes because I can’t know everything, only when I am trying to know few things!! I realize that, but I can’t go back and start from the scratch, if that was allowed, we all know we would do it again, isn’t it?
If one would want to believe that something is controlling our contexts, it makes a perfect case for existence of omnipotent god. Yes, this would also qualify for a perfect future-opt, where, we all we have access to contextual plugins, which will make up for the information gaps.
I say this again, but what if there is actually some macro common to all of us, which is executed in our brains at the same time, and we don’t know about it. Then where does all our trust in knowledge and decision making lead us to? I can get a bit out of context sometimes.