An Illustration

He feels a shift in his sense of discrimination. It's as though he no longer has any hesitation in admitting and even asking for what he wants. And no longer from outstanding individuals only. Now he can ask for it, not only openly, but actively, from anybody.

At the same time, his attachment to what he wants is diminishing. He no longer seems to care whether or not he gets what he wants. It's as though the simple act of asking is enough.

It is a gentle declaration of some briefly pinned down sense of identity directed to the world around him. All responses garnered from others do nothing to reflect (and thereby judge) this identity. Responses act only to color the identities of others, as though they are defined in the moment by a temporarily fixed standard: this distilled-to-a-reduction self-declaring desire of this Other.

At this point, it no longer even defines his Self in any profound way. For it, too, has reduced this so-called Self to to a mere social function: a platonic form of an existent desire that would thrive unconcerned with or without his participation.

In short, he embraces in non-discrimination his own disintegration into the fine powder of a psycho-social Fact.

He does not protest. He does not judge. He ceases to consider, and just is, functioning for the crowd, an egoless tool against which others may gauge their own comforts, their own relations to themselves, and if, through this engagement, they find in themselves something lacking, they are presented in him an opportunity: to address the fact.