I fundamentally agree with Dostoyevsky's view, with which you close, but what assumptions are at work in all of these philosophical statements?
does the physical world work?
How does the spiritual path of an individual present itself to the individual who walks it?
What happens when a lot people surrender individual decision-making responsibility for that of the group? That is a very important point, and I think it is the case 95% of the time in human society.
As groups we are a differnt organism. Some humans work that fact to their ends, but that organism can only be worked to certain ends. Mass violence and murder is one of them, of course.
Some of the owners excel at this point of crisis-manipulation of masses of humanity.
Ancients dealt with the same waves of human reaction to changes in the world. No epoch in recorded history corresponds to the magnitude of the threat we now face. Never before have there been so many people, the great majority without any self-sufficiency outside of the massive industrial economy.
I happen to not be in the 95%. I am as I have always been. I did not make myself independent as a moral agent, and I tested immorality in childhood and youth (some), but I knew right from wrong, and tried doing wrong. It always brought regrets. I was taught that it was like this foor everybody, but I don't see that. Maybe as much as 10% I don't know.
Either a person really knows right from wrong, or goes along with the crowd. I have found that most people, including those who mean well, choose to follow the crowd, rather than conscience.
Freedom starts within each person. Freedom includes of course freedom to be unfree. A man or woman can ignore many things for money. And in doing so give up some freedom. Most of ideas circulating today about the crisis of industrialism do not rest on freedom but on control. In the name of helping People much evil is done. Do you recall the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man? The aliens come to serve humanity literally. As a meal.😅
I recall that episode from recent posts and peeks. I did not often get to watch Twilight Zone as a kid, though I really wanted to. It seemed so serious, interesting and unpredictable.
I was not much on TV being a reader but good science fiction or high strangeness I made time to watch. As a third grader I loved Johnny Quest. I also did Trick or Treat for UNICEF on Halloween. I went home early to watch my show and it was horrible and in outrage I refused to watch it ever again. Amusing this extended in time to next to no TV except Vietnam.
I fundamentally agree with Dostoyevsky's view, with which you close, but what assumptions are at work in all of these philosophical statements?
does the physical world work?
How does the spiritual path of an individual present itself to the individual who walks it?
What happens when a lot people surrender individual decision-making responsibility for that of the group? That is a very important point, and I think it is the case 95% of the time in human society.
As groups we are a differnt organism. Some humans work that fact to their ends, but that organism can only be worked to certain ends. Mass violence and murder is one of them, of course.
Some of the owners excel at this point of crisis-manipulation of masses of humanity.
Ancients dealt with the same waves of human reaction to changes in the world. No epoch in recorded history corresponds to the magnitude of the threat we now face. Never before have there been so many people, the great majority without any self-sufficiency outside of the massive industrial economy.
I happen to not be in the 95%. I am as I have always been. I did not make myself independent as a moral agent, and I tested immorality in childhood and youth (some), but I knew right from wrong, and tried doing wrong. It always brought regrets. I was taught that it was like this foor everybody, but I don't see that. Maybe as much as 10% I don't know.
Either a person really knows right from wrong, or goes along with the crowd. I have found that most people, including those who mean well, choose to follow the crowd, rather than conscience.
Freedom starts within each person. Freedom includes of course freedom to be unfree. A man or woman can ignore many things for money. And in doing so give up some freedom. Most of ideas circulating today about the crisis of industrialism do not rest on freedom but on control. In the name of helping People much evil is done. Do you recall the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man? The aliens come to serve humanity literally. As a meal.😅
I recall that episode from recent posts and peeks. I did not often get to watch Twilight Zone as a kid, though I really wanted to. It seemed so serious, interesting and unpredictable.
I was not much on TV being a reader but good science fiction or high strangeness I made time to watch. As a third grader I loved Johnny Quest. I also did Trick or Treat for UNICEF on Halloween. I went home early to watch my show and it was horrible and in outrage I refused to watch it ever again. Amusing this extended in time to next to no TV except Vietnam.