From: Oldehippie1947@aol.com
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 16:05:50 BST
Platt
Thanks for your observation.
I am attempting to keep my posts as short as possible so haven't presented a
total picture of my observations.
First: I'm surprised you paint an absolute regarding limitations of human
nature. So much of what people tend to identify as human nature is through
the inability for the vast majority to clearly see beyond our minute
experience with the development and evolution of homo sapien. We like to
think we know more than we do. This is because of our need to form gestalt's
re our environment. This is not just an individual short coming when trying
to understand our nature. Who we are. This same dynamic exists in our
collective consciousness as well. Reading your response I pictured that what
passed through your mind was some star trek scenario where an advanced
civilization no longer had a body because of it's lack of need or some such
thing. NO. Empathy does not detract from either of our dual natures, (what I
call logic thinking and primitive thinking), it, (empathy), diminishes the
inherent conflict that exists between these two natures and allows us to be
what I call fully human. We will not all become like thinkers at all. It
encourages diversity. I picture the graphic of the bell curve theory when I
think of the diversity in society. In a society where empathic rationality
exists in the collective consciousness you will have a bell shaped curve but
in a society where this conflict exists, (America), you get a very distorted
bell curve because most of the population's thinking is distorted to one
degree or another by fear. I wish I knew how to make graphics to better
illustrate my point. Oh well
Darrell
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