Black or White

What is meaning? Meaning is built on two layers of reality, the first level is the one where the act is in itself predicated on the premise that it is experienced. The second level of reality is the discovery that the act we experienced above is nothing more than a product in which we are not able to control- hence the meaning is lost insofar that the environment emanates the meaning and vice versa.

Hence in this case, the baby who upon entry into world cries insofar that it is first that it "knows". The baby stops crying and is constantly disturbed for the need to feed, realizes that there are people around him/her that is stopping him/her from doing otherwise.

Hence from the above, in the first, the meaning comes from the actual crying and in the second, the meaning comes from the fact, he/she have to realize he/she have to deal with the "world".

Since there is no stimuli in the womb by which he/she is aware of, the baby must then realized that whatever he/she does is experienced. The meaning comes from perhaps yawning in the womb or kicking.

When the baby cries after being disturbed for crying, he/she realizes that it is "different". The "different" then comes from the meaning that the crying itself is not as a result of the first baby step, but rather the crying is the result of having to deal with matters that is "unfamiliar".

To say that we have two layers meaning would be in this case be mistaken, this would mean that crying comes first, controlling crying comes second. This means crying is some form of primordial instinct that we was built upon some form of internal structure. After learning that someone is feeding us hence we should not cry, we learn how to control the crying "instinct" by which it is considered as form of higher form of human civilization is wrong. Patently wrong.

This presupposes one simple fact that we are "programmed" in a manner by which upon coming out of womb, we are of an higher form than if we are not.

Let us then consider a simple case where a baby does not cry upon coming out, does it mean that it is already a "higher" form of species with no inkling of primordial instincts.

We would then in this case go back to the various biological or some of archaic understanding that differentiates the lower form and the "higher" form.

A higher meaning means "controlling" your "primordial" instincts. A lower form means allowing your "primordial" instincts to flow. Hence how can we interpret the above without assuming that primordial instincts is basically stacked below that of having to control this particular instinct. This means that allowing one to cry is on par or at least as "natural" as "controlling" this particular "primordial instinct".

Consider the scenario where your father hit you if you cry- what type of meaning would one have to consider. Does this mean that the father hitting you is NOT "primordial" and hence "controlling" is therefore a higher or if not an equivalent form of meaning. This means that controlling your urge to cry is hence higher than your father hitting you?

It would take an extremely saintly man to say that a father hitting you is NOT hitting you out of anger but rather out of "controlling" his own urge of "god knows what". To assume that a father hitting you due to a reason has only two meanings: 1) morality 2) patriarchal. Both does not have a higher meaning insofar that it requires anger for it to be effective.

Hence controlling the urge to cry because your father hitting you is a lower reason is to have a meaning equivalent of being a baby- and how does control comes into play?

Hence in this case, controlling your urge because your father is hitting you is higher simply because anger is "wrong." What does that makes you, a saint?

Control comes then in two fold 1) as a primordial instinct insofar to avoid more pain 2) Control becomes than as a form of "saintly" quality- which presupposes a need to avoid control as a form of control.

In sum, control is hence not just a higher meaning, it is also as a primordial defensive mechanism. A crying baby is scared hence he cries, a newborn baby that does not cries does not mean that it is of a higher order and not necessarily higher, it might just be a mixture of environment factors quite different in each setup. Ultimately this means that it is really good to cry sometimes whether you like it or not.