I am not Sartrean but I Believe Others Are Hell

Dimas Tri Pamungkas
3 min readApr 28, 2020

Then passing civilization, you will still be there, in the corner of other people’s historical records. Other people who like to play in conjecture about you. They create a hell hole for themselves and you will see it when they get the mistake of guessing about you they have believed before. Then what about yourself? You will still be positioned in a sad state. As a human being, you are forced by others to see others fall in the holes they have made themselves, half their faces drowned in the flames of hell. Tragedies in horrific myths, like the foolish Rich. The myth of wealth that impoverishes it. Poor is the real reality we face, rich is a myth that we somehow know and other people are hell.

I always think about this on the other side of the debate in a part of my mind. Half-conscious person without interruption continues to talk about all the problems about themselves to themselves, in others, for themselves to come. From the many layers of struggle within myself, I often meet someone who is not loyal to himself. They just come out without consciously creating others into themselves. Whether it's in the form of thoughts, feelings or passions. Some self meet, dozens self meet, hundreds self meet. The core problem is that further and more problems have been branched out and this is for me the origin of the Human tragedy incident in the passing of the human civilization.

Others are hell, others are seven in the centrality of Man. Humans must accommodate themselves with other thoughts, which also struggle to stay alive. Solipsism is just a soft dream. For-Itself (ie humans) is also for other people. You meet other people without form (ie from a phenomenological point of view). How can I interact with other people? Through the body, physical manifestations of my being in the world.

Therefore, such shame is a form of original feeling brought about by the realization of the existence of others. Like seeing through a keyhole, an action that creates a sensation in the thought that someone might realize that I - the peeper - is looking through the keyhole. At that time, someone sees oneself as others will see me: as an object. Embarrassment, in other words, is self-shame in the eyes of others. This is a devastating form of consciousness, that I am a little more important to others than my physical manifestations of their body are.

The only defense left for someone is to change others, to turn them into objects for my own awareness and with my own characterization. We must rid ourselves of others, to escape and to regain ourselves and the freedom that others see. Consciousness creates this trick to continue to exist as a subject, in what constitutes another attempt to counter subordinate self efforts with the views of the Other. This opens up a moral dilemma.

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Dimas Tri Pamungkas

Cultural Critic, Art Curator, Independent Journalist, Professional Teacher in Cultural and Media Studies.