Devoured Consciousness holzer fredyholzer por fredy holzer Por Flickr: The Devoured Consciousness They are not two beings. They are two states of the same human. On the left, pleonexia has taken speech. The open mouth does not express anger alone: it reveals the terror of one who needs to possess more and more because nothing grants permanence. The more it consumes, the greater its emptiness becomes. It no longer desires concrete objects; it desires the infinite continuity of desire itself. On the right, the same human remains silent. The gaze does not represent resignation, but a delayed lucidity: the realization that what it once tried to dominate has ended up dominating its consciousness. The external world still exists, but it has already been distorted by need, fear, and ambition. The red current that connects both faces is the psychological circulation of power. It is born in voracity, passes through language, and reaches thought. Manipulation begins precisely there: when individual desire can be directed, when fear is given an enemy, and when words stop naming reality and begin to administer it. The corruption of language precedes the corruption of the world. If lies can be called truth, abuse order, exploitation progress, and cruelty necessity, consciousness loses its ability to recognize what destroys it. Language remains, but it no longer communicates: it disciplines. Ideology then ceases to be an interpretation of the world and becomes a defense against complexity. It offers certainties before questions arise, turns doubt into weakness, and the different into a threat. The human ends up obeying thoughts it believes to be its own. The future is uncertain because both faces still coexist within us: the one that demands more, and the one that begins to understand the cost of that demand. One devours the world to fill its void; the other contemplates the consequences and discovers it has also been devoured. Between the scream and the gaze, a possibility still remains: to recover the meaning of words, to accept uncertainty, and to rebuild a consciousness that does not need to possess everything in order to justify its existence. — Holzer































