Showing posts with label superiority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label superiority. Show all posts

Monday, 2 September 2024

Post No. 2,869 - learning “the hard way”

A topic I have covered on this blog is that of learning (refer to the labels [Bloggers term for tags/hashtags] below for more on that - and apologies to those using mobile phones, as Blogger does not seem to allow labels to be viewed on that sort of device, and see also here on “negative learning”, and also here [learning from mistakes], here [which includes “The ideal is to learn in constructive situations, but there are some who stubbornly refuse to learn, and for those those people, the negative learning of karma may be necessary, less effective thought it may be (I have to admit there are some lessons I have had to learn, both in this life and over the millennia, "the hard way").”], here [on the risk of becoming a monster - if writing that now, I might include a philosophers comment about when you look into the abyss, the abyss looks into you], and here).

One of the aspects of this that I have written about on my political blog is learning - particularly from history, or, too often, not  learning the lessons of history ... 

Learning, and not learning, the efficient (“easy”) way are important - not only for nations, as I wrote about in the post below, but for groups and for individuals.

And the point I want to particularly warn against is that of hubris - pride, arrogance, and various combinations/variations of those.

As I have taken pains to point out when writing about the war in Gaza, Israel has in many cases repeated errors that others have made earlier (for instance, the USA in World War [part] Two)

Don’t feel too superior - yes, undertake nonviolent activism to promote change, but dont think your nation or group or you yourself, Dear Reader, are free of fault. That way lies the fault of spiritual bypassing, at the very least. 

And note that if you are open about your faults, spiritual bypassers will smugly be critical of you, and possibly use your realism to ignore their own hypocrisy and continue being faulty ... and there’s pretty much nothing you can do about that, other than sigh when they finally wake up and regret what they have done. 

And that is something I consider Israel will do one day - wake up, and be horrified at what Israel has done in Gaza and the West Bank. 

On the other hand, I doubt that the ultra-narcissists of H____ will allow themselves to regret creating the reality that is destroying Palestinians ... 

The post I referred to is:

“Israeli anger at Netanyahu   [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/09/israeli-anger-at-netanyahu-note-content.html     



Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

  • there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking” 
  • I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.

 

 

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Thursday, 28 July 2016

Post No. 911 - The CULT of "The Best"

I have been watching the US TV series "The West Wing". It's better than the US TV series "House of Cards", which started losing me with the murders, and the original UK TV series "House of Cards"., and is both entertaining and interesting - in fact, I agree with the person cited in the Wikipedia article who - pretentiously - said it is a good pedagogical (i.e., teaching) tool. (I quite enjoyed finding out about the Peters Projection map, and look forward to one day buying a topographical version of that. If I can sort out copyright issues [I can't afford to pay, and, although this is non-commercial use, there often is some sort of constraint {citing permission/authority is OK}], I'd like to use that for my weekly Psychic Weather Reports.)

This has led me to think about a few things - including how much better the writers on that show are than I am as a writer (I would have been better had I focused on this more through my life, but I doubt I would ever have been as good as them), how much better many political people are than me at political debate (again, being more actively involved would help), and just generally thinking about "Life, the Universe and Everything" (and no, I didn't come up with 42 as an answer * ), and the many social problems we have now - particularly issues such as disatisfaction, stress, ill-health, the various forms of struggle for survival, and so on.

I contemplated how significant the "protestant work ethic" was in all this - after all, my view is that the protestant work ethic led to such social blights as workhouses (see also here, which I wrote after a particular episode of this UK TV series), and a set of social attitudes (such as the competitiveness, superiority/arrogance and disdain for others socially engineered on the "playing fields of Eton") and rapaciousness (which caused massive environmental and social damage) that England exported to many of its former colonies (in its latest form, this is now manifested as "American exceptionalism").

Yes, that is part of it, but not all.

The greed and desire for more and more that advertising created in the early 20th Century is another part of it - a very BIG part of it, and something which has degraded the phrase "giving people want they want" to the extent that I personally avoid using it wherever possible, as it means "giving the lowest common denominator what will focus them on more consumption" (Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World", written in 1931, gives a very prescient view of what this would lead to).

This also is a truly major part of the problems we have.

Population growth - or, more strictly, human overpopulation, is also, whether people like it or not, a major part of the problem. I have come across claims that we can all exist if we all live simply - which is utter rubbish, as that means going back to a lifestyle with  inadequate health care (which requires a significant technological basis), no Internet, etc. From a personal point of view, if population pressures weren't an issue, I could take off to a sparsely inhabited area (and thus opt out of the social pressure to live a house that doesn't drag down the re-sale value of my neighbours' houses - house which are for living in, not being or feeling superior because they are worth wore money - a social pressure which is largely based in bigotry, and is the basis for to many housing code requirements [there are also some valid structural requirements, although the inflexibility regarding new materials is an option]) and live as simply as I wished - but I would still access the Internet and modern health care.

A lot of pressure comes around as a result of the economic pressure and drive to be competitive ("efficient"). In my case, that means stress and pressure that has, is and will harm my health and quality of life. Economic theories are thus part of the problem.

Some of this is related to shallow, superficial and empty people who get bored and need external entertainment (we need my proposed Minister for Boredom - well, Minister Purpose, really).

What could, perhaps, tie all of these together is what I will term "the Cult of The Best":
  • a frenetic or hard worker is "better" than someone working at a reasonable rate which will SUSTAIN their personal energy, health and other resources;
  • desire to have "the best" consumer goods (for instance, the biggest car / house [which is why Australian houses are so dreadful when viewed from the purpose of function {i.e., shelter - and, as  I'm writing this, I and my cats are trying to stay warm and wonder if there is ANY insulation in the walls}] / etc),which creates enormous and unnecessary financial pressure;
  • desire to have "the best" family (this has often - historically - meant "biggest", and now tends to mean the most focused on being/manifesting stereotype of family);
  • "the best" economy / nation;
  • "the best" business, with the most number/proportion of "the best" (i.e., most frenetic ** ) workers
and so on.
It is impossible for everyone to be "the best" - in any aspect/field of life, there can be only one who is"the best". Trying to be "the best" is potentially emotionally and spiritually unhealthy for individuals, and leads to societies that have workhouses, disenfranchised people and discriminated-against minorities, and a messed up world.

Many societies no longer have the same class-based structures of the early Middle Ages, but we still classify people's worth - but now it is based on whether they are "the best" or "just" a bunch of also-rans, rather than whether they are rich or socially powerful (mind you, there is still a lot of the latter ... ).

We need to stop trying for being "the best" in so many things, and:
  • start making places in our business companies for people who are less talented - or do we want them to be rough sleepers?, 
  • stop pretending that everyone can be trained to be "the best" (I don't know ANYONE who could be as good as Rob de Castella in marathon running, or Gandhi in social change/peace, or Einstein in science, no matter how hard they worked), and 
  • let kids AND adults be themselves - be who they are, and find a way for them to move beyond survival in a world WE HAVE MADE cut-throat (it wasn't always - that was our CHOICE!) to having an adequate quality of life and enjoyment / purpose.
As a set of first steps, perhaps:
  • people should stop lording it over others they consider lesser in some way - not just obviously being arrogant and superior, but genuinely making other people comfortable;
  • with jobs, once you've met the actual requirements for a job, perhaps choose who is most deserving; and
  • with personal hobbies / pursuits / interests, aim to be the best you can be, not "the best".
In terms of me:
  • I am good at my day job: younger people are better trained and have better tools in many areas (not lagoons, though), but I am still good, and have the respect of the people who I care about, even if that doesn't contribute to security of job or having a good income;
  • my writing is where it is because I have had to put my focus elsewhere in life;
  • I could have been successful at sailing (someone once predicted I could part of the team when we won the Americas Cup, which didn't happen - I wasn't part of the team that lifted the Auld Mug from the yanks): I've done enough to know both that, and what is required to achieve that ... and to also know that I made the right decision not to pursue that when I was younger;
  • I enjoyed being part of politics when being a community activist (how that doesn't roll off the tongue like "lobbyist" - and how I hate the reservation of "lobbyist" for paid lobbyist [if I had had the money, I would have sued an MLA for alledging that I was paid for this because we were using the term lobby]), and thought about getting more actively involved in politics. However, family got in the way, and I chose to pursue psychic energy work, in which I know others who are better than I; and 
  • I get cranky when people overrate my abilities - especially when trying to praise or boost my confidence.

I could say I am "the best" at the process of being me, but I am what I am, and that is enough.

 * for those who don't know, this is a reference to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 

 ** I'm aware of arguments along the line of "smarter, not harder": in most workplace situations, they're complete and utter rubbish.

I apologise for publishing these posts twice, but Blogger keeps changing my formatting. I can either publish it and then correct it, or save and close the post and correct it when I reopen it, but that leaves an extra copy in my "drafts" folder ... 


Love, light, hugs and blessings
I am revamping my former website, and getting at least one other underway (pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga ... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this site) is here, and my glossary/index is here. The reasons for my caution when using Wikipedia are here.

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate-clear for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour, and see also here and be flexible. 
May the best in me, my Higher Self,
and those of the Clear Light who assist me,
help me to keep myself grounded, centred and shielded,
to be Balanced and a Fulcrum of Balance,
a centre of Balanced Positivity and Spiritual Maturity,
with my aura continuously cleansed, cleared and closed,
repelling all negative or unwanted energies,
whilst allowing positive, balancing and healing energies in and through.
The real dividing line is not between Christianity and Islam, Sunni and Shia, East and West. It is between people who believe in coexistence, and those who don’t.
Tom Fletcher, Former UK Ambassador to Lebanon
  • All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ...
Tags: arrogance, change, discrimination, economy, overpopulation, self abuse, self acceptance, self actualisation, society, superiority,
First published: Thorsdagr, 28th July, 2016
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Thursday, 24th July, 2016

Monday, 24 February 2014

Post No 526 - Manadagr’s Meanderings



Today’s post is going to be one of those posts where I dump a few ideas that I haven’t been able to develop into full posts (often, because of lack of time or energy). What I’m going to cover is: 
  • flaws of the ancient Stoics;
  • “smarty-pants”;
  • choosing a lifestyle to enable one to be oneself;
  • reality shows;
  • what is success or failure, and who decides?; and
  • let down by the hippies.

First, up, the ancient Stoics …

Flaws of the ancient Stoics


Now, I am using the term ‘Stoic’ in the sense that it was used prior to the last few centuries: now, it is viewed as someone who is unemotional, but the term used to refer to a particular school of philosophical thought (as did ‘Epicurean’, and other words we apply particular meanings to nowadays). The ancient Stoics were probably more akin to modern Buddhists - aiming to be happy in life, which includes living life by the Serenity Prayer:

Goddess, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

In particular, the ancient Stoics considered it important to accept that there are things we cannot change in the world, and thus develop what I would term equanimity.

That is quite true, but it is also important, I consider, to note that:
(a) there are things you can change in the world; and
(b) where the cut-off point is for people may not be clear - and it will shift depending on circumstances, including the state that the person is in (e.g., if you learn new skills, your capacity to change things may increase … and then it may decrease if you become ill, or have to focus on caring for ill or elderly relatives, for instance).

Having the courage to try and genuinely find where that cut-off is, is something that I consider too few people do.

“Smarty-pants”


To begin with, I would actually normally call this something else (smart-something … ), but I’m still determined not to have to set up an adult content filter :)

The inspiration for this comes from an article I found on LinkedIn: "DropBox’s hiring practices explain its disappointing​ lack of female employees", by Vivek Wadhwa on 17th February, 2014. For those of you able to access Linked In, the article can be found here, and on the author's website, there is this link

What I found particularly significant is the following comment, about so-called ‘quirky’ questions that some interviewers like to use (e.g. “What is a superpower you would give to your best friend?”):

“The problem is that such questions are fun only for people who understand the jokes — and who can think like the young men doing the interviews.

They don’t lead to better hiring outcomes as Google learned. Its senior vice president for people operations, Laszlo Bock, said last June in an interview with New York Times, “…we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don’t predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart.”

Such hiring practices also disadvantage women. They hurt the employer by limiting the talent pool. They fortify the male dominated frat-boy culture that Silicon Valley is increasingly being criticized for.”

If I was asked that sort of question in a job interview, I would possibly walk out, because of what it reveals about the workplace culture – i.e., an attitude of being ‘smarty-pants’. If you want to ask a question about my creativity, then ask it about something related to work – I may, after all, not be creative in other areas of my life, but I may be very creative in my field of work. (Provided, of course, the company concerned does not try to take advantage of others and get some free advice – as some unethical, unscrupulous places have apparently done ... ) 

To not do so is to abuse one’s power, and to fail to be proportionate in how one chooses to impact on others.

Choosing a lifestyle to enable one to be oneself


I was recently reading the brilliant T. Thorne Coyle's blog, and in this post found the following comment:

"I had one abortion in my early 20s. A condom broke. It happens. The abortion wasn’t easy. It was necessary. I vowed to never have to go through one again.

That abortion saved my life.

Not my physical life, but it saved my life nonetheless, enabling me to work toward the life I have now, one which (I hope) contributes and gives back. That abortion also saved the life of whatever child that fetus would have turned into. It saved that child from a life of poverty and difficulty. It saved that child from a parent who didn’t want it and who still needed years to work through the abuse from her own childhood."

I consider that, sometimes, people’s responses to others’ choices around lifestyle are basically resentment that the others have had the temerity to not go along with what society expected of them. I first came across this that I can remember – albeit in reverse - when I overheard a couple of older women discussing modern underwear, and saying “well, that must be all they need to wear, then”. The tone of her voice was sad, full of regret for what could have been if she had seen an option other than going along with the very constrained, supported and altered shape prescribed by society’s overwhelming presumption of girdles and the like when she was younger. Both of those older women summed up their attitude with a “good on ‘em”, but many people I know don’t – especially when it comes to choosing not to have children. There is an element of viciousness – and also elements of condescension and patronising – in the voices of those who condemn those who do not have children, an element of “how dare they choose other opportunities? I didn’t! I know – I’ll call them selfish”. This attitude also, of course, has the side outcome of making the situation of those who want to have children and are unable to do so infinitely worse – such views are particularly a case of ‘rubbing the other’s nose in it’ to the childless women and men who are unable to have children.

(I also object strenuously to the expectation of those who choose to have children that others who have child-free lifestyles will submit those VALID child-free lifestyles to the petty whims and desires of the CHOSEN child-included lifestyle. As an example, any such person who expected me to rearrange my home and life so that it is child-safe will get very short shrift – and be lucky if I am polite about it. And then there is the issue of over-population and the environmental damage done by that … especially when the excessive numbers of children are in Western societies … )

The main area of my life where this has been an issue is that of where to live – which, in my case, is best done on the water. This is the reason I never bought a house or unit when I was younger. Having then lived on the water (in a boat that was too small, but which I managed to fit water recycling on to – my day job has its benefits!) for the best part of a decade (commuting to work), I made the mistake of underappreciating the importance of that when I moved ashore. Now, having had to give my boat to others, I am looking at many years before I can start spending some time back on the water. As my quote from F. W. Boreham puts it:

“We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us.”

This is so important, being true to oneself, as, if you get it wrong, you can literally wind up ill, or driving yourself insane through the incompatible energies and other effects of trying to live something that you are not – as too many LGBTIQ people discover, prior to coming to terms with themselves.

"Reality" TV shows


I normally avoid such rubbish like the plague (in fact, I don’t have much time to watch ANY television), but I unfortunately caught part of one such show where a childish woman was saying that a food dish which was to be based on lamb shanks had to have to bone in it “because everyone loves marrow”.

Bull.

Not only is that sort of attitude WRONG and GROSSLY IMMATURE, it is PRECISELY the sort of thinking I was alluding to earlier, when I was discussing the importance of choosing a lifestyle that is compatible with oneself. That woman’s attitude contributes to the small-mindedness and expectation of society, the pressure on people that drives LGBTIQ kids to commit suicide or self harm, and LGBTIQ people of all ages to have problems caused by discrimination. It shows a failure to cope with difference, and, as I’ve written elsewhere, that is the ultimate source of what is termed ‘evil’.

I wonder how the producers etc of such shows and the network executives responsible for them will find the karma for their evil when they meet it in future lifetimes … (or this!) 
 

What is success or failure, and who decides?


I recently read a review of the next book of the so-called “Tiger Mother” (see http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/07/truth-about-tiger-mothers-family-amy-chua). Now, I haven’t read either of these books, and don’t have any desire to, but the thought that struck me about the review is that the whole approach – both that of the so-called “Tiger Mother” and the reviewer’s – were predicated on the idea that physical things matter more than spiritual. They do also address emotional issues, and there are some conflicting world views on that level (for the record, I consider that of the so-called “Tiger Mother” to be dangerously flawed because it is so limited in understanding of people), but neither seems to be aware that there is more to life. 

Let down by the hippies


Something I have often thought about the ‘hippies’ of the sixties is that, when they packed everything away to become mainstream, they made all that they had claimed and said – every single last bit of it – a facile childish prank. I’d always been square in that decade, but my beliefs were actually quite genuine  and thus, when I did start to change, slowly, and in response to life’s lessons, I consider that I maintained my credibility more than those hippies who went mainstream (some didn’t, by the way)

Conclusion


So … what to be drawn from all this? Be true to yourself – don’t let society or your peers dictate to you how to live or what to do.

And this is all definitely a case of: do as I say, not as I do :)


[1] BPLF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Light Forces. See here and here for more on this.

[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")


Love, light, hugs and blessings


Gnwmythr 
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux? Morinehtar? Would-be drýicgan ... )

My "blogiography" (list of all posts - currently not up to date) is here.  

I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ...  See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend learning how to flame, ground and shield, do alternate nostril breathing, work with colour - and see also here, and be flexible.

I am a Walker upon the Path of Balanced Positivity, seeking Spiritual Maturity. 
  • One size does NOT fit all. 
  • Don't be mediocre - seek to excel.  
  • Gnwmythr's Stropping Strap: Occam's Razor only works if  the simplest solution is actually recognised as being the simplest, rather than the one that best fits one's bigotries being labelled 'simplest'.
  • May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
  • Ban the dream interpretation industry! 
  • A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
  • Housework is for ensuring a home is comfortable to live in, not competing to outdo or belittle others.
  • Being accustomed to interacting via certain rules makes those rules neither right nor universal. 
  • Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master. 
  • Expertise at intimacy and emotional happiness is generally not the same thing as spiritual growth.
  • "Following the crowd" is not "going with the flow".
  • Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and/or "they can ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other. Indolence vs. perspicacity, and expediency vs. honour.
  • The means shape the end.  
  • As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
  • My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi", although I've recently come across "Invictus" and might put that one in to that category. However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films. 
  • All of the above - and this blog - could be wrong, or subject to context, perspective, or state of spiritual evolution ... 
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY (who was quoting 19th century Episcopal Bishop Phillips Brooks)
Jesus loves you.  Odin wants you to grow up. (Facebook meme, according to John Beckett)
We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us. F.W. BOREHAM
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that. Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If you want to be taken seriously, get serious. JANE ELLIOTT 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." EINSTEIN

We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech) 
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." ROBERT F. KENNEDY 1968
Tags: arrogance, children, family, life lessons, lifestyles, peer pressure, self knowledge, social engineering, socialisation, Stoicism, superiority, values,

First published: Manadagr, 24th February, 2014

Last edited (excluding fixing typo's and other minor matters): Monday, 24th February
, 2014