A surreal person

Surrealism: Thought dictated in the absence of all control exerted by reason, and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.


Sometimes I wish I could climb above social limitations or fear of consequences. Sometimes I imagine myself shattering expected behavior and doing something unorthodox, not to be an exhibitionist, but because I'd be in a mind-set that is outside normal.

I try and imagine a person that would embody the idea of surreal. An image of a person strolling down the street naked, screaming at the top of their lungs with unkept hair and anxious eyes; an image of someone holding a gun shooting people at random and yelling "your welcome after each shot;" or Ted Bundy sneaking into a house late at night to dehumanize another unlucky lady. It seems like the only image I can manifest is a "crazy" person, maybe it's because to be outside morality is to be opposite of morality...but what if to be outside aesthetic and moral preoccupations is to be amongst a limitless morality.

What if to be outside moral preoccupations is to be in a place where you have no preoccupations, morality is simply your nature. What if a person who embodies surrealism is a person who loves everybody no matter what they do, or a person who gives up everything he owns, or a person who sacrifices himself to save someone else, what if the person claimed he was the son of God, would he be "crazy?"

But even so these are still two spectrums of opposite scales determined within the moral law. I guess I'm over analyzing this a lot, because now that I think about it, if a person embodied surrealism they would do nothing, I think they would sit on the couch and stay there until they died because they have no reason to do anything. So when I say I wish I was able to climb above social limits I'm talking about something other than surrealism...so at least I've gotten that established.