This topic makes sense to me all year around, but let’s say now its best time to talk about it – Halloween + obsession with movie Joker + fake world around us.
Since forever I am fascinated by psychology behind mask.
I have been questioning myself what is truth, for me the existence of both is not possible. So, person with a mask or the one without it?
One of the most popular movies now is “Joker”. Power that is given to him by wearing mask gives him ability to be himself. Other example – Jim Carrey “The Mask” – he turns from totally regular guy to this powerful self-confident creature… or Mad Man where there is no actual mask but main character Don is always hiding behind the mask he created in delusion that it would protect him and people around him, but at the end it just destroyed everything. I could continue with examples, but you get the point…
After so many thoughts on masks and what is the truth, yesterday on day of halloween I came across explanation of Slavoj Žižek and this thoughts are influenced by his words, because it makes total sense to me and it gives the conclusion of my fascination with masks.
Truth is in the mask! I believe that the one who is wearing mask in reality wears mask when he doesn’t wear mask! Think about this twist!! He is not himself when his mask is OFF. Why? In general it is hard for people to be evil, bad! How many people are able to be evil without mask? As Žižek said, “I admire those people, who can be evil without it” – for example Hitler – he didn’t need mask to be evil. Or Jacques Lacan, he had strong public act and someone said that in private he was exactly the same.
World that was created by religion, patriarchate, politics,… forced people to create masks. Without all those rules good people would be good and bad people would be bad. Now everything became mad – good people doing bad stuff in name of religion, country, love,…!?! And bad people are thought how to be good, so they are excepted…. bla bla bla…
Yes me too, I have a mask. When I discovered it (many years ago) I didn’t like it at first, but now I know it’s my only way to cope with this world. It is transformed into cynic jokes, humor that many times only I understand – my mask in softened with a smile. Smile is acceptable, smile is good they say. For me it really is, it gives easiness to everything, because I really think this world is funny and even if I might offend people from time to time in my heart I know I told the truth, but with a mask of smile. I know it makes me an ashole, but…
World is funny, it truly is – and the only way I can live it is by wearing my mask all the time! – so what is the truth now? I can give you the ultimate truth only by wearing mask all the time and tattooes are part of it! – I can’t be boath.
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