tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post6592028927639650315..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Jefferson and usDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-49631262994902077122016-07-02T13:24:47.449-04:002016-07-02T13:24:47.449-04:00We vacillate as human beings between reasonablenes...We vacillate as human beings between reasonableness based on our frontal cortex, unique to us and unreasonabless based on our primitiive brain stem native to all creatures. I believe that evolution is a result of this jostling of influence between primitive and advanced, right brain, left brain impulse through a generational cycle which allows us to deepen self knowledge of our holistic self in terms of male/female, rational/irrational self. There is no such thing as pure progress or regress. If I say to my child as it reaches out for a hug or to my wife as she seeks my warmth in bed that they should be rational, this is misplaced. Similarly progress over nature, instead of with it. Pure romanticism, hippie culture was the other extreme, with LSD and abandon of responsibility. We learn however only through experience and each generation are unique actors in history which contributes to our human experience and without which the next generation could not 'react', often negatively to express their own individuality. Specific brain areals seem to be more used by each of the four generational types in succession. A specialist in brain studies could acquire in wikipedia a basic knowledge of the generational theory and exponate on this to us in due course. At any rate an analysis of the balance between these life phases in historical/cultural/mental development would itself be a deepening of the balance between rationalism/irrationalism. Know thyself applies to not only the individual but to species, life forms generally and all phases, generational archetypes, sexual identity, national/ethnic/religious identity which grow out of the flow of peoples and cultures into one another over time. Thee rational tendency belongs more to the hero generation like g.i. generation. This is overemphasized by the blog author. Boomers tend to overvalue emotionalism a nd my X generation skeptical distance. The silents become artists. Every man's perspective is its own truth. Each age has its own legitimacy. I f we experience a people's revolution against the global elite with blood in the streets it will be deemed neccessay, just as the followingconservative reaction. We are animals living and developing in cycles of feelings like night and day trade off with one another. This is like the tides, inevitable, unstoppable regardless of self observation by the few academics, like buddhist monks observing reality passing before them while the masses, in animal madness, follow the zeitgeist blindly.Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-67104638794292119712016-07-02T07:49:05.638-04:002016-07-02T07:49:05.638-04:00I agree wholeheartedly with Unknown--this one is a...I agree wholeheartedly with Unknown--this one is a true gem. Both the quality of your prose and your content can evoke tears. As can the fact that the son of a WW2 bomber pilot, and an ordinary working class person such as myself, was once in the presence of the sacred both at Jefferson’s library at Monticello and at his displayed books in the Library of Congress. Thanks.Gloucon Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05218027862578514587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-54179419519531611992016-07-02T03:14:01.034-04:002016-07-02T03:14:01.034-04:00+ 1+ 1CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-3730616591118781082016-07-01T09:57:15.889-04:002016-07-01T09:57:15.889-04:00There are not many who could write this post. It ...There are not many who could write this post. It represents why this blog is so valuable to me. Thank you. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629116622092214120noreply@blogger.com