Invision

Now I was studying characters live and in the flesh. The original question - 'Why are these people so f****d up' ? I was looking at character make-up. Bad characters have bad make-up. It was a study of character make-up as the source of the problem. The army was the study of the absolute character. Thank god we had draftees for sanity. Europe was non-speaking characters or language of my non-understanding. The Haight was such a plethora of eccentric characters it was a joy to behold, after a lifetime of staid uniforms. But there again it was clicks based on a leader. I decided to remain an outsider. My feeling was that if they haven't transcended the hierarchy, they haven't transcended anything.

This was a different character study. I was going to play the characters. Ultimately I needed a universal character, since I was only one person. In the meantime I played parts. The thing was to categorize them as context, and for this purpose I used identities. So I created political, religious, artistic, economic and various identities as needed, in which to interpret the otherwise ordinary circumstances of my life. The identities were based on objectives, where the objectives of all of any particular identity, like all doctors, soldiers, bankers or artists, would be pretty much the same, as similar if not identical objectives. Thus identity would serve all of a kind, the differences being in personal preferences, not relative to my study. I can actually remember thinking that.

The epiphany was a whole new context for interpretation which transcended all former characterization. It was the concept of all characters in one, as the only way to understand the human condition. Would I do the same in a same or similar circumstance ?

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