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Radical Acceptance of #HumanNature

Posted: January 1, 2024 in Stimulus Space Response
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Judging seems to be a default setting in humans.

It’s not just easy, it’s as natural and normal as breathing.

I know I have been guilty of judging others negatively, but what I was actually doing was projecting negative thoughts about my own flaws onto them. And I’m not accessing my long term memory when I think of examples of this.

I’m not sure if becoming more accepting of human nature comes with age or with experience. I just know that as I’ve gotten older, and had more experience interacting with more and more people, I am (slowly) becoming more accepting of the fact that to be human is to be irrational.

I think that if we all take a minute to look back on some of our decisions in just our recent past, we’ll find the actions of an irrational person.

Studying philosophy has helped me with this. Reading books by Robert Greene has specifically helped me with this a lot in recent years.

To accept our human nature, is to be forgiving, to have empathy.

We need more of a lot of things in this world, but empathy, that is something that a majority of us can agree upon. Something free, simple, within all of our ability to control and influence.

Having more compassion for myself and empathy for others is an evergreen new years resolution for me. Being more aware and accepting of the irrationality of human nature has helped provide fuel for my ability to empathize to grow.

Descendants of #War(s) Winners?

Posted: December 25, 2023 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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“History is always written the winners” Dan Brown

It is in our nature to follow rather than lead. It is in our nature to believe rather than to question.

If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be so easy to propagandize.

And in the modern world, humans are constantly propagandized.

Propagandized to buy, to believe, to escape, to be lead.

It is in our nature to believe we are the good guys. Individually we constantly tell ourselves in our own head that we are a good person. That our family, our tribe, our community, our country, our gender, are the good ones.

That bias is leveraged.

Smart phones have turned peer pressure into a propaganda atom bomb that never stops detonating.

What feels better than being right? Especially when life can make us feel so wrong sometimes.

So when a war is waged, of course we’re the good guys. What did the other side do? Why? War is the only answer?

Where does the money for war come from? What else could that money be used on? Who makes money during a war?

Money can be made during a war? Is that a good thing. Of course, because we’re the good guys.

But if we’re the good guys, descendants of the winners of all the previous wars, then these questions are moot, unpatriotic, and weak. And we can’t have that, what if our enemies found out?

Luckily for us, we’re the good guys.

It’s the good guys in charge.

It’s the good guys dropping bombs.

It’s the good guys selling weapons.

It’s the good guys controlling the media.

It’s the good guys running the economy.

Because if they’re not good, what does that mean about us?

The Simple But Not Easy #Pardaox

Posted: July 14, 2014 in Stimulus Space Response
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ssrlogo2ajclogo2by @anarchyroll
7/13/2014

Life is simple but not easy.

A paradox that confuses and confounds more human beings than those who have a grasp on it. Identifying problems is simple, enacting solutions is not easy.

I am aware of most of my flaws, shortcomings, and failures but taking the corrective action I know that I need to take is difficult at the highest level. Becoming aware was simple, taking action has not been easy.

I have been amazed at how hard enacting solutions has been in my personal development. I see my errors and/or am aware when I am taking a step backwards, failing, etc but it is as if there is an invisible hand metaphorically holding me in place, holding me in a script of stagnant, repetitive, counter productive decisions and/or actions.

I think there are a lot of people who can relate. I don’t look at myself as some kind of uniquely cursed wannabe martyr. I believe an overwhelming number of human beings struggle with self mastery. Finding the balance between patience and hustle can be tricky.

Paradigms die hard and shift slow. Traditionally change is slow and gradual. But the ego/shadow or the part of yourself that doesn’t want to change will use the truth of slow change, as an excuse and justification for not taking action in the moments of choice.

To be a coward when courage is required. I have run against this sticking point which at times feels like bouncing off a brick wall. How to move past this? Identifying that is simple:

  • Persistence of effort
  • Boldness and trust in the face of adversity and the unknown
  • Pushing through the pain period

That is what is required, that I know.

How to enact those principles, tactics, and techniques when my mind is racing or blank, my breathing is short, my stomach is in knots, and/or my limbs are shaky? Well, that’s hard, but nothing worth having comes easy. And self-mastery and living life as the best version of myself is certainly worth having.

 

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