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This is the difficult truth. But outright it's like telling a severely depressed 120 lb man who can barely get out of bed he needs to start weightlifting, so we
by 1000units 8y ago
This is the difficult truth. But outright it's like telling a severely depressed 120 lb man who can barely get out of bed he needs to start weightlifting, so we get these threads and these ideas.
Spiritual health is literally the most important need of any intelligent human, and yet it's incredibly hard to achieve in our current culture. We're a nation of drugged out, traumatized zombies starving for answers, and the loudest voices belong to snakes and idiots. It's an absolute disaster.
The first baby step of a solution is allowing and encouraging people to discover and to speak plainly about what is Good, what is Beauty, what are our obligations to ourselves and others, and why.
But everyone's brains are fried. They've simply accepted the ambient dull-minded morality seeped into our cultural fabric by a host of unmoral forces (and a few immoral), and the process of spiritual development for many has become a weakly cathartic but useless raging at the failure of their community to succeed within this framework. Then they're told: when this exhausts you, reach for the pill bottle.
It's incredibly sad.
- dqpb 8y ago> Spiritual health is literally the most important need of any intelligent human Tell that to someone who is starving. Hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
- 1000units 8y agoExplain hunger strikes.
- dqpb 8y agoHunger strikes are a form of protest to affect social or political change. Social and political issues are often slow, endemic, and creeping. Cleverly, hunger strikes transform these issues into something that is visual, easily empathized with, and quickly escalating. Indeed, this illustrates quite well that physiological needs are the most important needs - if they were't, then they couldn't serve as a tool to escalate the stakes of the protest. If spiritual needs were more important, you would have spirit strikes instead of hunger strikes.
- 1000units 8y agoWhat does a hunger strike make happen in people's heads that compels them? Do they think "Oh, these poor strikers will starve to death, and that is too terrible to allow." or "This striker's conviction is genuine and powerful, I should listen and be receptive to what he has to say." It is the content of their souls that allows them to do what they do and this recognition that makes their demonstration compelling. By the way, spirit strikes are very much a thing, and they are far uglier than hunger strikes.
- yusks 8y agoThat's a nice write up :) Language plays a big role in helping people out of their holes. Check out Marshall Rosenberg's Non-violent Communication and then think about how you could rewrite the same comment. It will push you to get past just expressing the problem well.
- 1000units 8y agoThis comment hurt my feelings and so I will disregard it.