Tuesday 7 January 2014

Ecstatically wild creatures know a 2-sided existence




This is the video that goes most against the sensibilities of the modern and modernizing world today, because it talks of true adulthood as the ability to recognize the intrinsically negative aspects of existence, such as death, finality, a limit to resources, parameters and the need to work within boundaries.

Nourishment is one side of human existence, but it has been over-emphasized to the exclusion of its counterpart: destruction or death.  One is the source, the other the boundary-setter -- but to know the latter is extremely important, since knowledge of destruction gives us our memorable character and finally allows us to become something.  By contrast, without this knowledge, we try (and fail) to go on and on, whilst demanding more and more from others and greedily consuming the universe.

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Cultural barriers to objectivity