two things
firstly why is it so hard to get across to people? nobody hears anything, let alone listen.
even when they do hear, they guess what I am saying and assume something and not hear what I am actual saying at all.
and then there are mental block which blocks them from hearing something different from what they have thought.
most people are so closed to new ideas!
uff its hard to communicate at all. whole new post needs to be dedicated to blocked shell of brains to resistance to new ideas.
So coming to the idea itself
Is the society especially the western society becoming more mechanical?
are robot like attributes valued more than human like attributes?
like accuracy over heuristics, order over chaos, pursuit of perfection. organisation, punctuality, following of rules take priority over orthogonality and imagination and initiative.
At first look it seems like the correct thing to do. who in their right minds would prefer chaos to order? we have been taught this since childhood, we are all shit scared of chaos! Ok order is required, but the desire for order in now infringing on our creativity and initiative. The rules are made for lowest common denominator, everyone should be able to follow it. If you are smarter than the rule book, screw you.
What you dont believe, ever talked to a call centre script? Is there really a person behind that phone? no there isnt. there is just a script.
I went to a first aid course. First things I was told was don't use common sense :D follow the book.
compare a burger maker in Mc donalds with a Chef.
each and every mc donalds burger is the same, it makes millions of dollars, average chef can not make that amount of money. a chef can make a burger and not a single employee of mc donalds can make a burger, they are just clogs in the machine.
also our expectation of things to be orderly is so strong because our left brain is dominant
Like ironing clothes, we want plain wrinkle free clothes, so what's wrong with Ironing clothes? nothing. but how we value people who have ironed clothes more than people with unironed is wrong.
if you look at cultures, Western rich ironed their clothes, Indians and Africans didn't, so our cultures are naturally at a disadvantage in this kind of judging.
ok fine nothing wrong with ironing, I cannot accept wrinkled clothes. it a disgrace. that's fine.
What about wrinkled faces? The same values start to apply here and we value unwrinked faces more than wrinkled ones. we want to hide all imperfections, we want plastic surgery. Is it a disgrace to have a wrinkled face just like wrinkled clothes? untidy?
we want perfection, we want straight lines and circles, we want to tame nature, we want to prune our plants into straight lines :D I find square shrubs most ridiculous ever!
Is this coming down to the same discussion as yin and yang, we are too yang. we want to control and mend rather than just be and go with the flow. Isnt that what I am saying in so many words?
we are unbalanced, we are not balancing our yang with yin, right wing and left wing both are yang, western culture is yang, it is not being balanced by the Eastern culture of acceptance and just being.
we want fast roads we want smooth roads we want barriers speed limits etc etc so that we can get fastest from A to B at a very predictable time. Why are we not asking ourselves why we are actually going about so fast like headless chickens? Is it really necessary to go like this at all?
as a consequence we are becoming piece meal than whole picture people
we are suppressing whole parts of our personalities which actually make us happy, which are meaningful
like people of ikeria
they have no concept of time or timlyness
we are becoming like the time saving people in momo :-)
firstly why is it so hard to get across to people? nobody hears anything, let alone listen.
even when they do hear, they guess what I am saying and assume something and not hear what I am actual saying at all.
and then there are mental block which blocks them from hearing something different from what they have thought.
most people are so closed to new ideas!
uff its hard to communicate at all. whole new post needs to be dedicated to blocked shell of brains to resistance to new ideas.
So coming to the idea itself
Is the society especially the western society becoming more mechanical?
are robot like attributes valued more than human like attributes?
like accuracy over heuristics, order over chaos, pursuit of perfection. organisation, punctuality, following of rules take priority over orthogonality and imagination and initiative.
At first look it seems like the correct thing to do. who in their right minds would prefer chaos to order? we have been taught this since childhood, we are all shit scared of chaos! Ok order is required, but the desire for order in now infringing on our creativity and initiative. The rules are made for lowest common denominator, everyone should be able to follow it. If you are smarter than the rule book, screw you.
What you dont believe, ever talked to a call centre script? Is there really a person behind that phone? no there isnt. there is just a script.
I went to a first aid course. First things I was told was don't use common sense :D follow the book.
compare a burger maker in Mc donalds with a Chef.
each and every mc donalds burger is the same, it makes millions of dollars, average chef can not make that amount of money. a chef can make a burger and not a single employee of mc donalds can make a burger, they are just clogs in the machine.
also our expectation of things to be orderly is so strong because our left brain is dominant
Like ironing clothes, we want plain wrinkle free clothes, so what's wrong with Ironing clothes? nothing. but how we value people who have ironed clothes more than people with unironed is wrong.
if you look at cultures, Western rich ironed their clothes, Indians and Africans didn't, so our cultures are naturally at a disadvantage in this kind of judging.
ok fine nothing wrong with ironing, I cannot accept wrinkled clothes. it a disgrace. that's fine.
What about wrinkled faces? The same values start to apply here and we value unwrinked faces more than wrinkled ones. we want to hide all imperfections, we want plastic surgery. Is it a disgrace to have a wrinkled face just like wrinkled clothes? untidy?
we want perfection, we want straight lines and circles, we want to tame nature, we want to prune our plants into straight lines :D I find square shrubs most ridiculous ever!
Is this coming down to the same discussion as yin and yang, we are too yang. we want to control and mend rather than just be and go with the flow. Isnt that what I am saying in so many words?
we are unbalanced, we are not balancing our yang with yin, right wing and left wing both are yang, western culture is yang, it is not being balanced by the Eastern culture of acceptance and just being.
we want fast roads we want smooth roads we want barriers speed limits etc etc so that we can get fastest from A to B at a very predictable time. Why are we not asking ourselves why we are actually going about so fast like headless chickens? Is it really necessary to go like this at all?
as a consequence we are becoming piece meal than whole picture people
we are suppressing whole parts of our personalities which actually make us happy, which are meaningful
like people of ikeria
they have no concept of time or timlyness
we are becoming like the time saving people in momo :-)
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