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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Thanks for your deep, penetrating, and incisive words, wilbjammin.
IMO, it is the best we can do to simply be aware of the actual situation.
Most of us are in deep denial.
That, to me, seems both pathetic and ignorant - something like a submissive slave cluelessly and happily licking the boots of an unworthy and cynical master. Or more precisely - it is like lambs being led to the slaughter...
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I agree. Now, more than ever, what is required is vigilance. I do not mean that we must latch onto every pivotal political and social issue and champion them. But we must pay attention to how knowledge is created and keep that in mind on all empirical and subjective matters.
My newest challenge to this situation is affirming the "forgotten senses". Touch, taste, and smell the world. Embrace the connection between the mind and the body, in fact, reject the seperation entirely - we have embodied minds. We have categorically reduced ourselves for too long, and we've gone way too far.
There are some days when I see something that is so obvious to me, that no one makes any mention of as though it is simply a given that we should all take for granted when I practically lose my mind. Like lambs being led to the slaughter? Yes... and in strange darkness.