tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28119117.post4950647264571263838..comments2023-10-18T06:21:42.010-05:00Comments on A Spot For Thought: Our PsycheJeremy Smythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15695017025578714288noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28119117.post-54710950868155296002009-12-05T23:56:52.928-06:002009-12-05T23:56:52.928-06:00-I think it's more related to "be the cha...-I think it's more related to "be the change you want to see in the world."<br /><br />-I'm not claiming a lack of illusion, i agree with Daniel Dennett seems similar to John Gray http://a-spot-for-thought.blogspot.com/2008/05/if-what-is-at-issue-is-not-truth-but.html (the second quote)<br /><br />-I'm not denying the misery, corruption & injustice; This post just happens to be focusing on a positive.Jeremy Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15695017025578714288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28119117.post-40387373382682879302009-12-03T18:22:16.403-06:002009-12-03T18:22:16.403-06:00Your comment makes me smile. The world of human cr...Your comment makes me smile. The world of human creation, huh? Sure, we're creative, but we're responsive first to reality as we perceive it. The happy thoughts create happy people meme is fatuous, IMO. It's not unrelated to the saws "ignorance is bliss" and "denial ain't just a river in Egypt."<br /><br />Daniel Dennett calls consciousness a benign user illusion. As such, it's possible to have a delusional grasp of reality at both ends of the happy/depressed continuum. Maybe it's just me, but an honest appraisal of the human condition and our position in history must admit quite a bit of misery, corruption, and injustice. They shift around over time, but they never go away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28119117.post-18812051438330631032009-12-03T13:50:03.939-06:002009-12-03T13:50:03.939-06:00I want to be clear that I'm not saying I think...I want to be clear that I'm not saying I think these technologies will save us, but I do think they reflect a positive change; a change toward open-source, bottom-up, social-connection, & well-being based business practices.<br /><br />As for my optimism, if the world of human creation is the realization/expression of the collective psyche, it would seem beneficial to have a healthy, positive psyche (for that would create a healthy, positive world). It definitely is circular, but that's not a problem because we're talking about a cycle =)Jeremy Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15695017025578714288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28119117.post-55601692096713196052009-12-03T11:57:28.430-06:002009-12-03T11:57:28.430-06:00The downturn we will face won't be that of evi...The downturn we will face won't be that of evil but of abundance. Faced with scarcity, evil behaviors will reassert themselves.<br /><br />The change of psyche you prophesy is already underway, but I don't think we yet understand it. Although it's certainly true that among the generation attuned to all things electronic there is tremendous dissatisfaction with the world we have, the discontinuity with the world we will soon have to too great to predict reliably. And why assume that optimism is a better strategy for success? Isn't that rather circular?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com