ON CONSISTENCY

Thinking about consistency..  Wouldn’t life be easier if we don’t try to rationalize our inclinations and choices that are shaped most of the time irrationally (by conditioning, emotional short-circuits, raw instincts etc.)? Doesn’t this attempt create avoidable conflicts? More importantly, isn't it alienating? If I recognize from the start that, as a human being, I’m not made to be consistent, then I’m free to live life as it is (wincing at the sight of a nicely served lobster while eating a brain salad with gusto, for example). Consistent could only be the persona (and at a cost of such delusion and self-pressure), not the individual. We can debate on any subject indefinitely without reaching a common starting point since rationalization based on arbitrary arguments can offer but a slippery ground (my irrationality disguised as rationality against yours!). Alternatively, exposing yourself with all your contradictions and conflicting outputs means a sustainable basis for genuine inner and outer relationships, and therefore it is hugely liberating and enhancing.