Experts say that excessive doubts might be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder, or to anxiety disorders. They also say that pessimism might generate passivity and resignation.
Nevertheless, I observe that doubts might derive from the best part of rational thought, the one that gives you the ability of distinguishing between illusions and factual truth. For instance, nothing perceivable can confirm that humans are sons of God, destined to a splendid future of immortal joy and happiness, and thus religious faith is inevitably surrounded by doubts. This doesn’t mean that you should reject social life, which is chiefly based on conventional illusions. Coming to pessimism, I believe that nothing authorizes you to think about the man as an enlightened creature, immune from pain and death, with unlimited mental capacities and a divine-like right to dominate over the entire universe. On the contrary, the vast majority of humans daily demonstrate to be arrogant animals, driven by huge but vain ambitions, and condemned to perennial absence of satisfaction. This doesn’t mean that you should kill any human being, including yourself, because only unconditioned respect among subjects belonging to the same species can contain violent, interpersonal conflicts, and can maintain your most precious richness, being alive.
Honestly, I know I’m not the one to be sure that personal privileges, richness, and political power never follow merit, virtues, superior capacities or abilities, or anything else recognizable as positive by large collectivities. This doesn’t mean that violent revolutions are the right path towards social justice, and equalitarianism. In reality, it’s always Fate to bless the elites, intended as randomness, neither good nor bad. Alas, while many know, or suspect, the described situation, lucky persons often are convinced of being superior to common persons, and end up forgetting the two best human qualities, humility and prudence. In effect, the most frequent source of evil is the following mentality: “I am/I want to be the ruler/president/highest religious authority/etc. because I deserve it, and everything can be done for maintaining/obtaining the status”.
Well, social life is something disconcerting, that obliges you to abandon many of your doubts, in order to avoid isolation, material or mental, and to stop bigger doubts in stealing your mental sanity. With other words, only productive doubts, definable as contained skepticism useful to prevent harmful mistakes, should accompany your everyday choices. As many times before in the blog, the conclusion is equal to the title of the page, a warning about the mental slavery induced by sterile doubts. Coming to music, the mix of the page contains a suggestion of preferring dub to doubt.
File name is “when you’re in doubt, go dub, by Max Look DJ (July 2026)”, 1 hour and 21’ of disco/house dub music, made of echoing tunes with little to do with reggae.
Reflections and refractions, the playlist:
Jah Wobble & Temple of Sound - once upon a time in the east
Pras Michel - haven't found (instrumental)
Rah Band - clouds across the moon (Super Nova mix)
Robbie Williams - rudebox (dub)
Sydney Youngblood - sit and wait (dub)
Aurra - such a feeling (part 2, mix by Shep Pettibone)
Winans - let my people go (dub mix by J. Morales and S. Munzibai)
Serious Intention - you don't know (special remix by Paul Simpson)
Asian Dub Foundation - strong culture
Imagination - changes (DFP is Nightdubbin' remix)
Off - electrica salsa (dub)
Third World - one more time (dub mix by Larry Levan and Judy Weinstein)
Sandy Kerr - thug rock (dub mix by J. Morales and S. Munzibai)
Paul Simpson Connection - treat me (mix by Paul Simpson)
