Thinking Dominated By Emotions And Feelings
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The great thing about philosophy is it's not a religion or fixed set of beliefs. It's personal to you and ongoing, not what we can teach. The philosophy I'm now reading does have me stumped in parts as I don't understand how the writer is drawing his conclusions. In such cases, I try to find my own angle. Also, philosophy sometimes has to speculate and may get things wrong. I find it addictive, however. Did you know Bruce Lee read lots of deep philosophy?
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Consider this:
Neurotypicals - I find - tend to do very well in technical, engineering, constructional sciences. All the way to space shuttles. Yet, they are proportionally hopeless when it comes to rational logic, philosophy, associative thinking.
Why is that?
Because in tech and engineering there is only one way to make something work. You can't dispute that wheels must be round and try to use square ones. The current high tech society has self evolved. Current technology is thousands of years old and no single person in just 80 odd years can understand its scope.
Meantime, areas such as history, psychology, philosophy, physics have no clear, proven path. So people are free to argue and put out opinions. Opinions chop and change and I find they are dictated by emotions or fashions. Especially in history past experience is ignored so the same mistakes get endlessly repeated. Plato wrote extensively on politics but modern politicians never read or considered any of it. They get elected due to popularity. We also have damned good research into psychology and genetics but it's unread. We now have all this ASD stuff that ignores diagnostic research left by Asperger and others. The so-called autism spectrum was discredited decades ago but it was re-hashed in the 1980s as a gimmick.
For psychology, history, philosophy you have to dig into past experience, use it and try and add to it.
Why is the world in such a mess today? Because there's no properly trained leadership or problem solving potential. Modern societies are almost mediaeval. Most governments blindly opt to follow God so we see ever more creeping religion. So, it's another Dark Age. The last one ran from 400 A.D. roughly to the 18th century.
Neurotypicals - I find - tend to do very well in technical, engineering, constructional sciences. All the way to space shuttles. Yet, they are proportionally hopeless when it comes to rational logic, philosophy, associative thinking.
Why is that?
Because in tech and engineering there is only one way to make something work. You can't dispute that wheels must be round and try to use square ones. The current high tech society has self evolved. Current technology is thousands of years old and no single person in just 80 odd years can understand its scope.
Meantime, areas such as history, psychology, philosophy, physics have no clear, proven path. So people are free to argue and put out opinions. Opinions chop and change and I find they are dictated by emotions or fashions. Especially in history past experience is ignored so the same mistakes get endlessly repeated. Plato wrote extensively on politics but modern politicians never read or considered any of it. They get elected due to popularity. We also have damned good research into psychology and genetics but it's unread. We now have all this ASD stuff that ignores diagnostic research left by Asperger and others. The so-called autism spectrum was discredited decades ago but it was re-hashed in the 1980s as a gimmick.
For psychology, history, philosophy you have to dig into past experience, use it and try and add to it.
Why is the world in such a mess today? Because there's no properly trained leadership or problem solving potential. Modern societies are almost mediaeval. Most governments blindly opt to follow God so we see ever more creeping religion. So, it's another Dark Age. The last one ran from 400 A.D. roughly to the 18th century.
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If I was put in charge of this basket case of a country, just imagine.
Politicians would have to study for years to be allowed access to decision making.
Education would be effective and advanced with science and maths.
Industrial production would return - not low quality Chinese imports.
Official religion banned. Only private belief respected.
Immigration would be based on ability and education. No criminals or economic migrants.
Junk TV and certain social media eradicated. Children need protecting from violent content or extreme religion.
Return to democracy with various parties and no more career opportunists.
Environmental control (Green)
Politicians would have to study for years to be allowed access to decision making.
Education would be effective and advanced with science and maths.
Industrial production would return - not low quality Chinese imports.
Official religion banned. Only private belief respected.
Immigration would be based on ability and education. No criminals or economic migrants.
Junk TV and certain social media eradicated. Children need protecting from violent content or extreme religion.
Return to democracy with various parties and no more career opportunists.
Environmental control (Green)
Re: Thinking Dominated By Emotions And Feelings
Any chance of that happening? I think you'd be good at it.Fulgurator wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:01 am If I was put in charge of this basket case of a country, just imagine.
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With Plato, the irony is his ideal state was nightmarish. Children removed from parents and raised in communes. Women apparently raised the same way as men. Mentally unwell people either euthanised or sent to reform institutions.