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Trivial pursuit and human extinction
I was awakened last night by a loud knocking on my door. Fortunately the knocking was not reality but was a dream. When I “heard” the knocking I sat upright in bed with my heart racing and immediately tried to determine if what I had heard was the real world rather than a dream. I assume such things happen to everyone; such things have happened to me before. I was unable to go back to sleep. Instead my mind led me into contemplations that have resulted in my preparing this posting thus ending my attempt on going back to sleep. I am retired and have been using my free time for the last several years studying the human condition. I have been trying to comprehend why humans do the absurd things we do and if there is some way to change the direction our civilization is heading. As part of this effort I have been engaged in several of these Internet discussion forums writing my thoughts about our human propensity to self-destruct. Circumstances this summer have led me into becoming a bricklayer for the first time in my life. I needed to build a small brick wall in my front yard and I have been engrossed in this project for many weeks. When I look back on my bricklaying efforts I recognize that I have tranquilized myself with trivia. For many weeks I have narrowed the focus of my intellectual interests to the follies of amateur bricklaying. The loud knocking was my unconscious awakening me from my holiday of trivia. My mind was willing to focus upon the trivia just as before it was focused on the important. But a sense of guilt drives my intellectual activity back to more important matters. Have you experienced the difficulty sometimes of separating dream from reality? Do you think that such things as hearing a loud knocking is our unconscious sending us a message? |
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Very Grave Indeed
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Edit, No, let me actually respond to this.
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Devonin
I would point to the wars of the twentieth century, the development of our destructive technologies, and to our cavalier attitude toward the earth as strong indications that we have a propensity for self-destruction. You mentioned that you “know enough about how dreams and the subconscious work”. I would be interested in reading further about this knowledge and why and how you are familiar with this subject. I assume you place little value upon psychology’s valuation of the importance of dreams. |
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Little Chief Hare
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Classical psychology might interpret dreams as important. Modern psychology tends to interpret them as a peculiar byproduct of a number of other processes. In fact one of the dominant understandings of dreams says they don't even have meaning, they're just random streams of gibberish information put together as a result of some sort of unconscious sense data sorting process.
Coberst, I would suggest you read "The Social Contract" by Robert Ardrey. |
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A book about the social contract does no appear to me to be one that would have anything to say about dreams and classical psychology. I am somewhat familiar with this concept as elaborated by Rousseau.
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Little Chief Hare
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It does have something to do with your interest in human beings and their destructive tendencies. It seems to me that if you really thought your dream was meant to guilt you into serious focuses again, you wouldn't be wasting time analyzing the dream.
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