Live according to what you have to give? You sense of self can expand to include other beings? How is this stuff starting to make sense to me now? I thought I was too rational for that.
The Revolution is Love
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Category Archives: Philosophy
Society of the Spectacle
If there is anything I can take away from the postmodernist bullshit artists it is that we should be aware that there are meta-narratives shaping the way we talk and think about culture and history. In particular we should be skeptical of the narratives about progress. I don’t want to be one of these bright-eyed techno-optimists that think that we will just innovate our way out of every problem. We should be asking “What Money Wants” when we look at the development of tecchnology. What research is getting funded,etc.
I am going to write a translation of the translation. Here is my first crack at decoding postmodernist nonsense into Yankee clarity:
Life used to be about being, then it descended into having, now it’s just about appearing to have.
Human beings descended to human havings and have become human appearing-to-have’s
Compassion
I had a breakthrough concerning compassion today. I have been telling G that she needs to value compassion. She has always claimed that she considered compassion to be a sign of intelligence. Nonetheless, I have doubted this and thought that intelligence had a more technical definition like the ability to predict the future ala Jeff Hawkins. But now I think that Compassion is a type of intelligence relating to causality. Compassion is aided by the ability to imagine the causes of behavior that hurt or annoy us. Thus, instead of visualizing the future, compassionate intelligence might help us to visualize the past (and really the present) reality of others.