When I read the threads, I can’t help but feel that some of these people are messed up. When I look at the world, I see allot of messed up things. When I look at myself, I know I have some issues and sh*t. Banality isn’t the answer. Nature hasn’t fixed it. In fact, because of nature all exists as it is. God isn’t going to fix it. Not that I believe in an absolute “God”, but, the divine forces aren’t fixing this either. It seems that health is a paradox itself, given the world of illness. Even the existence of the idea “health” is a paradox to me, when all is sick.
The oil age is ending. We’re beginning to see our place in history.
There’s way too many people.
Debt and technology are both on infinite trajectories and capitalism is inherently flawed.
Most people are either totally corrupted by media and pop culture in one way or another or are just going along with the motions because there’s not really anything else to do about it.
The changes that are going to come about that will end this age as we know it are going to be severe and abrupt in my estimation.
I don’t mean to be nit-picky, but the entirety of what you’re talking about comes down to how you said “feel” instead of “think”.
When people focus on feelings, they’re conceding to externally programmed sensations rather than internally driven concepts.
Messes exist because of randomness.
Randomness happens from things being out of control.
When people concede to feelings, things are let out of control.
Therefore, for messes to get cleaned up, people have to stop conceding to their feelings.
I’m not saying you have to fight your feelings, but you have to realize that your feelings are not necessarily the right path. They’re just a highlighted path among every other. Whether you focus on that highlight or not is up to you.
That said, you can’t change the world by yourself. If others continue conceding to their feelings, then those messes are out of your control.
Daktoria, you make it sound like concepts don’t have any of the drawbacks that feelings have, which (if the case) would strike me misguided. Also, that whole sentence, “When people focus on feelings, they’re conceding to externally programmed sensations rather than internally driven concepts” strikes me as odd. “Programmed”? “Internally driven”? I don’t think such a sharp split exists, or should exist, between inner and outer, relative to one’s sense of self.
Concepts are abstract, so they represent pure reason that’s independent of particular variations. For example, a square can be conceived as having 4 equal sides along perpendicular corners.
Emotions are concrete, so they’re sensitive to particular variations being attractive. For example, a square can be felt only if it looks beautiful in nature. On top of that, feeling beauty would come from nature itself, so only those naturally aligned would be able to understand nature. To rely on feelings would be the same as asserting “intelligent design” or the “teleological proof of God”.
This sounds like you believe in reincarnation as if people give birth to themselves in defining their own feelings (via genes, hormones, and neurology).
Likewise, this sounds like you’re denying the autonomy of volition as if people don’t choose how they think.
Maybe what"s messed up is our concepts of individual and social control having lost It’s focus. So we rely either on uncertain individual confusion between our thoughts and emotions, or “what they tell us” is the right course of action. Maybe at times we have lost our internal gyroscope, our focus. We have gotten to the point that what we call “reality” is increasingly modified by pharmaceutical control agents, in a kind of silent agent of social control. Maybe it’s the “fringe” that defines the center, not the other way around. Normalcy is getting kind of hard to define nowadays.
