Scaer and Levine two minds from the "wellness" communites of Colorado, along with a bunch of other Western Beatniks, have offered us the idea that "stillness" is a radical act of flesh refusing to be treated as a managed unit. The argument offers the proposition that the body experiences flight as a direct order. It's a conversation that falls under the subheading "Somatic Experience, real or unreal."
"Does the body feel?"
"Dearest Mother. Out here on the Eastern Front we are doing terrible things, but we are doing it for the fatherland."
"A Moral Injury?"
"PTSD."
"A Fugue State."
"Why don't you just run away?"
Let's go back to Kant and look at his thoughts on Morals. Kant’s Categorical Imperative says: "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." Kant saw this as a structure in the brain. It demands that you stand on the rough ground, look a choice in the eye, and ask: "If everyone did this, would the world collapse?"
Standing on that rough ground can be incredibly painful when in uniform hunting down the unwanted on the Eastern Front and killing them. To say no introduces massive, burning cognitive friction when everyone else is cheering. It's a freedom few of us relish.
My own view goes this way. "There is a good act and bad act. But we never know what is a good act and what is a bad act." Good and bad is something we learn, a pat of the bacj teaches us. We run from bad and we fight for good. When you get on a Greyhound Bus to disappear from your old world to find a new life under a bed with an octopus, that's your body taking leave of your mind it feels danger but your brain wants a private yacht and an apartment building on Mars so it isn't listening.
