stormdog | (no subject)

I wonder if the archetypal mystic is someone who just became so disenchanted with the world, and who came to feel powerless to make things better, and chose to withdraw entirely from a society they felt is fundamentally broken and unfixable. Then, when people hear about this person living by themselves in complete self-contentment and they go to ask them how they did it, the mystic tells them to stop worrying so much about everything and let it be as it will be because that's what the mystic did. If *everyone* did that, the mystic might reason, the world would be better, so acting as an inspiration for other people to do that is a way to make the world better even while refusing to actively engage in it.

Or maybe they're just people who want to go live in an abandoned UFO (or cave, or mountain top, or desert, or...) with 37 dogs. Who knows?

I feel kind of emotionally unstable today. *sighs* I get to take care of dogs tonight though!