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"Do people have ideas or do ideas have people?" might have something to do with the phenomenon of different humans preferring different labels for the same thin
by mistermann 3y ago
"Do people have ideas or do ideas have people?" might have something to do with the phenomenon of different humans preferring different labels for the same thing.
- PawgerZ 3y agoThis is from Jung right? I've always been fascinated by his teachings, especially the collective unconscious. I'm just gonna leave a couple related quotes and ideas down here cause I want to. Dostoevsky made observations like this, too. "It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you" "Men need to bow down to something; whether another man or an idea.” I think Ernest Becker explored similar ideas in The Denial of Death, though through a different context.
- mistermann 3y agoYep...the problem with humans has been pretty well understood for ages, hopefully we can get over this all science and only science phase and utilize some of this valuable knowledge before we kill ourselves.
- nottorp 3y agoThere are different implications though. One implies there's some meaning while the other does not.
- mistermann 3y agoThey both have meaning, a distinction is the degree to which free will (or, System 2 in Thinking Fast and Slow) is in play. But now we have two problems!