A very nice piece of pontification, and so many little details for mental chewing of the cud. In order to move the world and humans into the future it requires, muddled history must be clarified and realised, in order to face and find effective and lasting solutions to benefit future generations. Much of the chaos in this world is very dependent on unresolved history of lies, which is why human ignorance plays a significant primary role in creating and multiplying and enlarging problems.
Ignorance, apathy, fear and selfishness woven together create a formidable web of debt and the longer it remains unresolved, the greater the accumulative interest rates on subsequent generations. If we are going to resolve issues, we'll have to see and grasp the trees and forest, and then decide which parts need to be changed or whether an entire system has to be scrapped and completely replaced, in order to have the most effective solutions.
It would help if many people actually start with acknowledging what they don't know (including certain experts), instead of feeling as if they have to protect their intellectual ego.
I actually consider life's decisions to be quite mathematical and economical, since we are each plotting our own graphs through our conscious choices and reacting to circumstances we face not of our choices, and the best mathematics of a successful life tend to be based on how many dimensions one can see of forest and trees... and that now sounds more like combined aspects of physics, and I am now temporarily pontificating.
Hating America is a very exhausting topic, depending on the issue and angles and people involved. Hate in itself is exhausting, which is why I have no time or energy to hate. I find that a person's ability to make distinctions as quickly and precisely as possible plays a large part in energy conservation and efficiency.
I perceive many things in this world as offensive, but I spare minimal time or energy to get offended. I'd rather focus on what I can and will do about something if I care enough to change it, because I have finite time and energy and resources, and there are others who will expand the emotional energy getting offended about that topic on my behalf.
Out of curiosity, do you reckon that at some point, *too much verbal indignation and self-righteousness without any action from an individual when continually offended (if you are not the one directly afflicted) might be ego masturbation? Or should the line be drawn even finer?
*For example, this does not apply to the comfort women of South Korea during the Shōwa regime of World War II, which Japan has never acknowledged as existing or apologised to.
It's hard to tell about verbal indignation - I think that if that's the only means available to communicate displeasure that it's about the only possible answer. I thin that as an economy of effort it's acceptable - you can express verbal indignation about something that you're not entirely committed to. The differentiation between that and ego masturbation seems to be when the person in question can do more and declares that this is their primary field of interest. Or perhaps its an act of confusion - but humans seem to find it easy to ignore complaints by someone who doesn't back their words up with actions if they have the ability to.
The problem with ignorance is that it gets continually pervasive, since there's no way to learn everything, and people seem to fall farther and farther behind all the time. And nobody likes to learn about things that they're already wrong about.
Ignorance, apathy, fear and selfishness woven together create a formidable web of debt and the longer it remains unresolved, the greater the accumulative interest rates on subsequent generations. If we are going to resolve issues, we'll have to see and grasp the trees and forest, and then decide which parts need to be changed or whether an entire system has to be scrapped and completely replaced, in order to have the most effective solutions.
It would help if many people actually start with acknowledging what they don't know (including certain experts), instead of feeling as if they have to protect their intellectual ego.
I actually consider life's decisions to be quite mathematical and economical, since we are each plotting our own graphs through our conscious choices and reacting to circumstances we face not of our choices, and the best mathematics of a successful life tend to be based on how many dimensions one can see of forest and trees... and that now sounds more like combined aspects of physics, and I am now temporarily pontificating.
Hating America is a very exhausting topic, depending on the issue and angles and people involved. Hate in itself is exhausting, which is why I have no time or energy to hate. I find that a person's ability to make distinctions as quickly and precisely as possible plays a large part in energy conservation and efficiency.
I perceive many things in this world as offensive, but I spare minimal time or energy to get offended. I'd rather focus on what I can and will do about something if I care enough to change it, because I have finite time and energy and resources, and there are others who will expand the emotional energy getting offended about that topic on my behalf.
Out of curiosity, do you reckon that at some point, *too much verbal indignation and self-righteousness without any action from an individual when continually offended (if you are not the one directly afflicted) might be ego masturbation? Or should the line be drawn even finer?
*For example, this does not apply to the comfort women of South Korea during the Shōwa regime of World War II, which Japan has never acknowledged as existing or apologised to.
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The problem with ignorance is that it gets continually pervasive, since there's no way to learn everything, and people seem to fall farther and farther behind all the time. And nobody likes to learn about things that they're already wrong about.
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