Comfort, convenience and resignation toward ones contemporary realities...

[Sparky Kronkite]

This is what I think most people do......

This is what drives small thinking, when I know, many have the potential for far grander thoughts.....

Laziness? No.

Complacency! Resignation to the familiar? Lack of willingness to consider or implement change.

This is why, I believe, we find ourselves in the messes we find ourselves in.

Issues - whatever they may be - are only bit players in the big picture - they mean dink. Name'um - taxes, the stock market, abortion, separation of Church and State, the election process, - you name it…………

Nit-picky little shit - barely worth discussing. Yet everyone want's to discuss them - hell - they're passionate about them.

Why? The inability to look beyond the familiar. The ignorance that blinders, borders, whatever you wish to call'em exist - to limit your natural, intellectual human thought processes.

Try, try a little. Try to think big - beyond the norm - beyond the nit-picky little shit those in power wish to keep you sedated with.

Break out of the self generated conspiracy of convenient resignation to our current contemporary realities.

You can change our current realties - to reflect new realities - those realities that you know in your heart - those realities that you strongly believe in - to be the "correct realities."

Perception is reality. If you're smart - which we all are - and you are brave in accepting change, which we all are not - you can change the perception of reality.

You can make your reality - your own. Not someone else's.

 

[naudiz]

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

- Noam Chomsky, Linguist and Social Critic

There's something deeply profound I want to say on this topic, but I can't think through the haze of flu. Oh, well - assume I've said something deeply profound on this topic instead of waving vaguely at Sparky's post and mumbling "Yeah, what he said."

You make the world you live in, not only by action but by thought as well.

I'm going to make tea. *snuffle*

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I call this.....

"Kinetic Intellectual Numbing." That's what I refer to it as…….

I don't really, necessarily believe in any sort of conspiracy on this - that to me seems far fetched.

I prefer to look at this "as a sort of nearly invisible, psycho-parasitic condition" that affects individuals and then of course society as a whole.

People with even a modicum of intellect - have fairly healthy egos - intelligent egos, unfortunately bruise easily - so those affected with this condition, find it very hard to believe - since it is a "psychotic condition and they can't see or feel."

They will tend to brush it off as bullshit.

I say, that very bullshlit provides "the invisible blinders" that occur our of one's cumulative knowledge base.

Smart people really - thinking within an invisible box of their own creation.

Again, as far as any conspiracy or plan to cultivate this? I believe that even the most intelligent of leaders who may ply this - are probably afflicted themselves.

 

[CW]

TIME TO SHARE,,,

Sparky,,, it's definately time to start sharing the drugs,,, maybe that way I can keep up with what you are saying here,,,

 

[CelestialBody]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Let's see....

It has to do with "your knowledge base" - your personal, held within your brain, data base - every little bit of knowledge stored within you.............

And how that very knowledge base - forms walls - that actually limit your ability to think expansively.

For example: Laws of physics, Newton for instance, gravity - we all "know" that one. It's a law right? Right. But..... If for some reason, "you didn't know that," - that bit of info was not in your mind - at all. Then - maybe - just maybe, you might be able "to creatively think" of ways to float - as if gravity did not exist at all.

Analogy: Until certain Aboriginal people, "actually saw a plain, flying" they would never, ever, think about - let alone believe - that any man could ever fly. Manned flight was not in their personal data base - so they did not think of it. The did not think it possible. They walked, that's what "they knew."

Your/our knowledge - actually works against us - it works against creative thought - it limits ideas. It limits ideas to, "what you already know." Most ideas are based on the rules or laws of what we already know. They are rather small ideas.

I of course call that small thinking.

And to me, it does not matter what your IQ is - if you think within your own rules and laws, within you own knowledge base - and don't even attempt to think beyond it - then you are a small thinker.

I believe the recent squabbling on the board regarding the nitpicky incidentals of government and elections is rather small thinking. And I've even been guilty of partaking in it too.

But - that's why I would go for the jugular, to go for the cancer and cut it out. I would prefer to rebuild the entire system from the ground up - rather than waste time putting Band-Aids on gushing wounds and hoping for the best.

Hope is for small thinkers and losers. Which is pretty much what I think of Uncle Bill.

You heard it here.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I disagree that what we know limits our ideas.

The fact that we knew animals to be able to fly generated the idea to construct something to that affect for ourselves.

There is an origion for everything invented, every idea. We can discuss the same issues, but instead of relying upon the same perceived solutions, let's creatively imagine a new solution to the same problem. What's wrong with that?

Now that boils down to laziness. Mostly, we are a very complacent society since we have not been plagued with political unrest or plagues or famines. When our nation went through the Depression, we found creative solutions to poverty and hunger.

Why create more issues when we have yet to resolve effectively, the current ones?