passivity

It’s okay to be passive as long as you are active somewhere else. If not, your inertia resists any participation, no change in velocity, just cruising. Second law of Newton. And sadly, the third law applies too, as we conduct ourselves in a series of actions and reactions. Although this is the most energy efficient way to interact, if I can say so, it is highly passive and detrimental to some, if not, most situations (especially in social and political ones). I recall my conversation with the two men at that cafe in east Mitte. I was criticizing how it is much easier to take actions post-event than to act in good alignment from the beginning, in terms of being proactive and preventive. This comes from a society of quick fixes, of crazy glues and of bandages on bandages. The most engaged of the two men smiled. That was exactly what Machiavelli said in The Prince over five centuries ago, he added. Oh it is highly detrimental in the medical field, especially! As it ties with the other big players of society (such as politics). Conventional/Western medicine suggests that we have no control over our body, reducing our consciousness and our inner compass, conditioning us to contribute in their money generating machine. The medical system comes full circle: from diagnosis to symptoms to masking pills to side effects to other symptoms and other (or same) diagnoses to more pills and you guessed it, more side effects… It is a common behavioural trait nowadays, to keep repeating the same inevitable cycles, disguised within different environments, different people, and different relationships of course.