tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post1786443938662276004..comments2023-10-31T04:56:00.798-05:00Comments on It Must Be the Vapors…: SISYPHUS SHRUGGEDYodoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-59250540857215016232011-01-06T00:03:40.547-06:002011-01-06T00:03:40.547-06:00I have used this pic here
http://www.facebook.com/...I have used this pic here<br />http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6662031&l=de3d59145c&id=628222326Rakeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07168582247278973795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-48885505175769462682009-03-01T23:36:00.000-06:002009-03-01T23:36:00.000-06:00Thank you, Mahakal / מהכאל. Somehow your mentioni...Thank you, Mahakal / מהכאל. Somehow your mentioning the downside to limiting society to those you know personally aspect of the small, tribal, self-sustaining, societies of kindred spirits I've been proposing, sparked an idea of how to express the connection to the larger society you suggest is more important. <BR/><BR/>I have written often about seeing my consciousness as the gestalt of the individual consciousnesses of my cells rather than the irrational, ego serving myth that I am commanding and getting obedience from parts of my body I have yet to even acknowledge exist, much less understand enough to operate consciously.<BR/><BR/>It fits in with the idea of, not exactly dissolving nations' top down, concrete rigidness over too many people to expect justice for all, but to effect a sort of emulsion where the essence of national intelligence remains, but now its actions are the result of its tribal societies free to offer what it feels is the best way to live symbiotically. Infrastructure of any large area spanning many tribes could still be handled locally by agreement between all tribes affected. I see this as the outline for developing the most intelligent solution to the disaster of man's irresponsibility for his actions hidden in god-excused mobs and majorities that threaten his existence of life on earth for his insane refusal to adapt to nature.Yodoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-11261836323171969252009-03-01T22:28:00.000-06:002009-03-01T22:28:00.000-06:00It doesn't work very well to limit society to thos...It doesn't work very well to limit society to those you know personally. You need to be able to depend on larger structures, people working in many different ways. Einstein did not favor such a radical downsizing of society, to the contrary he advocated large scale planning for the benefit of the society as opposed to the narrow interests of a small subset who are regarded as "owners."<BR/><BR/>It is this fiction of ownership, and particularly ownership of natural land and resources uncreated by any human hand, to the deprivation of all other users, which is the root of the alienation you perceive. You cannot lay your head down to rest without the permission of some "land lord" or owner, unless you are fortunate to be in such a class yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-36748873182884382462009-03-01T13:51:00.000-06:002009-03-01T13:51:00.000-06:00I couldn't agree more with all you said, Mahakal ...I couldn't agree more with all you said, Mahakal / מהכאל , I am all for a society of kindred spirits small enough for all to know each other personally and large enough to contain the skills to achieve self sufficient symbiosis with nature to exist freely. The primary flaw of western, and most other civilizations is that they are based on human exceptionality, the root cause of Einstein's perception of alienation of man from society.Yodoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244765916380830711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29705116.post-19505875430485785542009-03-01T12:53:00.000-06:002009-03-01T12:53:00.000-06:00"I have now reached the point where I may indicate..."I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society." -- Albert Einstein<BR/><BR/>There are great benefits derived from existing in a society, rather than a state of nature.<BR/><BR/>Of course, absent a society and its educated forms we would not even be having this conversation. Nor would you be having another conversation, without learning a language first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com