Perhaps I could make a lot of money by founding a Thinker’s
Anonymous organization. It surely is the rage to eschew thinking.
Helping people achieve great things is worthwhile to your SELF.
If you do not know your SELF you will hurt those you try to
make do what you want them to. This macho control mechanism
built into materialistic society is exemplified by professionals
and experts who are giving drugs to manage ‘money-trees’
(students and Ritalin, or old people and ECT especially) and
managing bureaucracies or saying they are ‘just’ as they lead us
to in-’just’-ice: 1. War 2. Religion and divisive ethnic
ideologies – rather than ecumenical spiritual goals 3. Hate for
others and putting women in a second class status 4. Insisting
on education to make others BE like them 5. Pursuit of power
rather than LOVE and creativity
It is summed up in the words of the noted journal The
Economist in their millennium issue – they call what we have
‘an inhumane bureaucracy’ as they enumerate the outcome of the
Napoleonic War’s institution of ‘standing armies’.
Wholism is spiritual & ass-’holes’ are not.
Holism is not Wholism!
This is a response to a person who wanted the nuts and bolts of
what I said in a detailed expose of Wholistic approaches that
are in variance to the way of many social programs and our
overall bureaucracy. It is probably part of the kind of thought
that the Beat Generation, Hippies, Cynics like Jesus and Goths
or other drop-outs that ‘turn-on’ to new paradigms and
alternatives, have been seeing since the dawn of civilization.
‘The flower children and groupies are not often willing to do
the work that many business types and academics have done. I
have found what I think of as independent thinkers (Which is the
main characteristic of a Hippie, I think.) in all social groups
or walks of life. Michel Foucault and his students at the
Sorbonne or Pierre Trudeau and Jean-Paul Sartre and his beau are
established thinkers of the genre. This book and the work
required of any forum seeking change will try to explore why
they are so unable to get a larger audience to actually take the
ethics they speak about and apply them in real world changes.
I will have to get past the Hegelian Being-ness and other
confused Neo-Platonic rhetoric to the nuts and bolts of Gothic
ideas and historical agendas again. I guess the cultivation of
positive emotions can assist in a therapeutic manner which will
enable people. But wishful-thinking alone will not solve much of
the ethical issues borne through constant power-mongering or
people needing to fight each other for more of that elusive and
fictional One Pie. Let us strive to reduce any cherished
illusions of our history if they do not stand the test of common
sense for the good of all people. It may turn out to be an
exploration of the sublime inter-connectiveness and I hope I
will be fair in seeing the positives that Machiavelli and the
likes of Carlyle can offer real thinkers in the present as
well.’