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Developing a consistent worldview is important in affirming how we view ourselves. Too often we approach macro-level social issues with a blind eye and a deaf ear, who cares about 6 billion people after all? I've never even met them.
We miss out on the most important aspect of all this political white noise though, the fact that societies are systems composed of humans, who are themselves complex systems of emotions and ideas perpetuated by equally complex biological processes. Consider a novel, and an informative synopses of that same novel. We may learn enough from the unexpanded view, but is just enough enough for you?
To be more precise, take the construct of the family. It's no secret that many of our own particular quirks and foibles are seated deeply in the interactions we undertake with our family members. If we inexplicably rage at the sight of dustballs on our kitchen floors, or have trouble pronouncing words in French, or if we beat ourselves up for eating too much ice cream, these habits did not arise unbidden from the primal archetype of man, they are producs of our upbringing, a process that is neither random nor inscrutable.
Yet this is but one level of the fractal curve, in each iteration the expression becomes at once more complex and self evident. And so we can easily draw a connection between ourselves, our parents, our immediate social circle, our nation, our world, our species...
To deny the relevance of the world at large, is to deny a part of the self, and to live in self imposed ignorance to a greater motivation you yourself possess.
We all live in a state of denial, the only solace is that we can make efforts to diminish it's magnitude. With every bit of understanding we pry from our reality, that denial becomes more transparent.
We miss out on the most important aspect of all this political white noise though, the fact that societies are systems composed of humans, who are themselves complex systems of emotions and ideas perpetuated by equally complex biological processes. Consider a novel, and an informative synopses of that same novel. We may learn enough from the unexpanded view, but is just enough enough for you?
To be more precise, take the construct of the family. It's no secret that many of our own particular quirks and foibles are seated deeply in the interactions we undertake with our family members. If we inexplicably rage at the sight of dustballs on our kitchen floors, or have trouble pronouncing words in French, or if we beat ourselves up for eating too much ice cream, these habits did not arise unbidden from the primal archetype of man, they are producs of our upbringing, a process that is neither random nor inscrutable.
Yet this is but one level of the fractal curve, in each iteration the expression becomes at once more complex and self evident. And so we can easily draw a connection between ourselves, our parents, our immediate social circle, our nation, our world, our species...
To deny the relevance of the world at large, is to deny a part of the self, and to live in self imposed ignorance to a greater motivation you yourself possess.
We all live in a state of denial, the only solace is that we can make efforts to diminish it's magnitude. With every bit of understanding we pry from our reality, that denial becomes more transparent.