What tool is available to break the hold of a

[coberst]

What tool is available to break the hold of apathy?

Our habit of seeking accustomed satisfactions prevents us from finding new sources of energy with which to see or create new meanings. Blind habit controls our every turn. Familiar modes of thought and accustomed perceptions lock our imagination and will into a strait jacket of passivity.

What tool is available to break this passive mold of inaction and apathy? It is playful imagination that can lead us from the jailhouse we have trapped our self within. We need to remind our self of Plato’s wise expression that the gods are happiest when man plays. This playful attitude applies both to our sciences as well as our arts. It applies to all of wo/man’s symbolic activities.

Physicists found the world inside the atom to be non-intuitive. The world inside the atom seemed to be totally different from our world. Heisenberg’s principle of indeterminacy was about an alien world. If, however, we were able to climb into the atomic world it is quite possible that the principle of indeterminacy would be ‘just doing what comes naturally’.

Some of history’s great thinkers have penetrated into the human mind long before Freud. Rousseau, for example, comprehended an aspect of “unconscious motivation”. “The moral of this anecdote is that the honest man can see through himself even quicker than the honest scientist can see through nature.”

We could have comprehended the science of the human condition much sooner than we did and the reason we did not is because of the “intolerance of method, the claims to exclusivity, the doctrine of a single valid approach to the study of man…The place where this took its greatest toll was in the fragmentation of the disciplines, the isolation of the various approaches to man. But undoubtedly the most harmful intolerance of all was the intolerance of philosophy in the science of man.”

In the reaction to various philosophical speculations, the scientific community in the mid-nineteenth century shouted ‘no more speculations were needed about the nature of man’. The scientific community followed by the population in general decided that it was only important to discover what was going on within the organism. Psychiatry became uncompromisingly organismic. Science failed to see that its methods were narrowing significantly humanities real striving.

Pragmatism at the end of the nineteenth century was a response to this narrow scientific approach toward the “science of man”. It became obvious that we must understand what wo/man is striving for, “as a part of nature, as a dimension of life”.

Rousseau taught us that humans wanted meaning and maximum conviction but a major question that the scientific method could not resolve “What was behind all of man’s peculiar urges, what was he trying to do as a vehicle of the life force? For only if we could understand this abstract problem could we answer the greatest practical puzzle of all: What were the possibilities of life on the level of human existence; and, conversely, what was there about the human condition that was hopeless?”

What are the limitations and possibilities for human life?

Ideas and quotes from Beyond Alienation by Ernest Becker

[Virtual Particle]

I feel that one of our problems is in relation to idolatry, not to suggest that idolatry cannot imply a 0 instead of a 1. 0s and 1s are very relevant to modern society, as are dualities, in relation to the human condition. Everything from our computers, to our ability to reproduce is at issue in relation to dualities. Then of course, there is the specific issue of the brain. A duality ? Also in the brain there is the activity related to the operation of both hemisphere's, in relation, to problem solving and that to me suggests something very relevant. Human beings are not inclined towards survival, in the wild, like a lion or elephant. They have to think there way though there problems, to avoid being eaten. And, it may still be a jungle out there; but for that to be really true, there must also be beasts.

Bias, in science would be a horrible shame; it would mean that perhaps we are traveling a path we have traveled before.

"What are the limitations and possibilities for human life?"

Where or how exactly does life end?

And I am asking specifically in relation to life after death as if that is the case? One is still alive.

Any thoughts?

Edited August 21, 2009 by Triad

[coberst]

We seem to be in such an age of pain today and all I see is shouting controlled by Corporate America that is directed at maintaining the status quo. If citizens have never been taught how to think can they ever move beyond the control of CA.

[WoIverine]

What tool is available to break the hold of apathy?

Our habit of seeking accustomed satisfactions prevents us from finding new sources of energy with which to see or create new meanings. Blind habit controls our every turn. Familiar modes of thought and accustomed perceptions lock our imagination and will into a strait jacket of passivity.

What tool is available to break this passive mold of inaction and apathy? It is playful imagination that can lead us from the jailhouse we have trapped our self within. We need to remind our self of Plato’s wise expression that the gods are happiest when man plays. This playful attitude applies both to our sciences as well as our arts. It applies to all of wo/man’s symbolic activities.

Physicists found the world inside the atom to be non-intuitive. The world inside the atom seemed to be totally different from our world. Heisenberg’s principle of indeterminacy was about an alien world. If, however, we were able to climb into the atomic world it is quite possible that the principle of indeterminacy would be ‘just doing what comes naturally’.

Some of history’s great thinkers have penetrated into the human mind long before Freud. Rousseau, for example, comprehended an aspect of “unconscious motivation”. “The moral of this anecdote is that the honest man can see through himself even quicker than the honest scientist can see through nature.”

We could have comprehended the science of the human condition much sooner than we did and the reason we did not is because of the “intolerance of method, the claims to exclusivity, the doctrine of a single valid approach to the study of man…The place where this took its greatest toll was in the fragmentation of the disciplines, the isolation of the various approaches to man. But undoubtedly the most harmful intolerance of all was the intolerance of philosophy in the science of man.”

In the reaction to various philosophical speculations, the scientific community in the mid-nineteenth century shouted ‘no more speculations were needed about the nature of man’. The scientific community followed by the population in general decided that it was only important to discover what was going on within the organism. Psychiatry became uncompromisingly organismic. Science failed to see that its methods were narrowing significantly humanities real striving.

Pragmatism at the end of the nineteenth century was a response to this narrow scientific approach toward the “science of man”. It became obvious that we must understand what wo/man is striving for, “as a part of nature, as a dimension of life”.

Rousseau taught us that humans wanted meaning and maximum conviction but a major question that the scientific method could not resolve “What was behind all of man’s peculiar urges, what was he trying to do as a vehicle of the life force? For only if we could understand this abstract problem could we answer the greatest practical puzzle of all: What were the possibilities of life on the level of human existence; and, conversely, what was there about the human condition that was hopeless?”

What are the limitations and possibilities for human life?

Ideas and quotes from Beyond Alienation by Ernest Becker

If you want a tool that will help you break the hold of physical apathy (in relation to laziness), you need something that will help you focus as well as give you a physical energy boost. Cardiovascular exercise works well, martial arts also works wonders, but so do amphetamines for those who have ADD. ADD seems to be quite a bit more common these days. Not suprising though with all the constant interruptions we get on a daily basis. My attention span is completely shot. Interruption could possibly lead to apathy in some ways.

Edited August 21, 2009 by SpiderCyde

[Virtual Particle]

We seem to be in such an age of pain today and all I see is shouting controlled by Corporate America that is directed at maintaining the status quo. If citizens have never been taught how to think can they ever move beyond the control of CA.

I feel that with regards to corporate America, or corporate Africa, or corporate Europe, or corporate Asia or corporate Australia, or to put it another way the Corporate World and its Non-Privatized equivalent (just in case I missed anyone), are a part of the problem. As they are the directors for maintaining the status quo.

The United States was formed 200 years ago Coberst and is represented, in its citizenry, by members of every country in the world.

Why is that?

Any thoughts?