Koniuszewski: The dung beetle

If we followed the views of the prophet Adam Mickiewicz, we would live without uncertainty in this destructive conviction, in which he remained that there was a wandering of souls, and so besides in the beetle there is any sinful lost being.

But nothing more wrong. The beetle is simply a beetle, and he surely knows nothing about his mediocre condition. However, even though ignorance has been so far advanced, he is pursuing his lifelong vocation. It is simply a regular activity of what we should not call by name in specified a respectable weekly as MP. This creature, as we can see, has a designated place in nature and 1 could say she is perfectly determined. These observations with large assurance that we will not make a mistake can be successfully extended to all another revived beings.

In addition, they should be attributed a hierarchical structure. At least that's what it looks like. Everyone is doing their job, and this seemingly independent activity is someway teething, causing us to talk about natural order and harmony. Like in a symphony orchestra, each musician plays separately, but it's a appearance he can fall for an utmost layman. She is the creator of the work and the conductor. All of this together is simply a perfect whole. So as we walk up the steps of life, we scope the top of them: man. He is said to be the crown of creation, for on earth all beings are under him, for he is not subject to anyone. So he has a wide scope of rights and responsibilities, as he has fundamentally become liable for all aspects of earthly life. In people's view, their position seems so powerful that many of them have become ill, in their case, with incurable illness of pride and megalomania. The main thing is that the dominant belief is simply a court of even absolute human freedom. To specified an degree he became arrogant that he believed in his ability to direct not only his own fate, but besides the life of the planet. In another words, the position given to man was misread by nothing today, which means the abandonment of centuries-old paths of knowing of these matters designated – in our civilisation – by Christianity. However, there was a considerable proverbial confusion of languages along the way.

The rebellious philosophical freemen divided into 2 fighting camps. 1 drunkenness of freedom, which we may boldly call slavishness, has led to the poorness of man and to the proclamation of him by the measurement of all things. Freedom, therefore, is so far advanced that a bursting individualism leads to a breakdown of social structures without which there is no life. Others, on the another hand, wanted to control these revealing possibilities and put their lives in the carbs of the barracks dryl. The erstwhile proved far more cunning than the latter, that their power was based on mechanisms to stimulate expected behavior. For this, powerful structures were essential and they are. 1 might even presume that everything that has transpired in modern times, nevertheless it looks, is always a variant of the same: rebellion. Of course, you can't truly escape from your nature, from your prescribed role. So man is inactive just a proverbial beetle who – hopefully for a minute – has strayed, wandering with his cast ball.

Antoni Koniuszewski

Think Poland, No. 43-45 (22-29.10.2023)