Cititi "
The Continuum Concept". De ce ii zice "Continuum" ? Pentru ca fiinta umana ramane "continua" de la nastere prin copilarie apoi la maturitate. Nimic nu ii deranjeaza cresterea. Nimeni nu ii impune nimic. Nimeni nu il bate, nimeni nu il face sa creada ca "e bun de nimic", este si se simte acceptat in totalitate de tribul lui, asa cum e. Apoi datorita faptului ca e o fiinta sociala - in mod natural urmeaza calea tribului, e prieten cu ei si vrea sa contribuie si el, fara sa-i impuna nimeni asta.
Ca un copac care creste liber, fara sa fie lovit de mic sau indoit sa se "conformeze" cu niste reguli. Noi cei civilizati suntem "rupti" si "altoiti" de mici. "Continuum" e distrus. Normal ca crestem strambi, autisti, "antisociali", "lacomi", si zicem asa e "natura" oamenilor (cand natura noastra initiala e foarte sociala, vrem sa fim parte dintr-un grup/trib , fara sa ne impuna nimeni) etc etc. Respectul de sine, increderea in sine, nu sunt lasate sa se formeze. La scoala invatam sa ne supunem, profesorul stie tot. Nu invatam sa fim independenti sa gandim singuri (se considera suntem prea mici si prosti pentru asta). Si cam asa e. Am construit monstrul asta numit "civilizate". Un copil de 2 ani lasat singur sa se joace printre corturile tribului e mult mai in siguranta decat unul lasat singur prin oras. Si ne numim "avansati".
Nu e vorba numai de asta. Cautati "
Hospitalism" pe wikipedia.
Nu stiu cum erati voi cand erati mici. Ce imi amintesc eu : eram foarte "salbatic", toata ziua imi placea sa ma joc pe afara, urcat in copaci, toate le faceam pe la tara, si eram foarte vesel. Stiu ca uram orice haine curate si mai ales "hainele frumoase" de purtat la "ocazii"
Prima ruptura in "continuum" a fost cand am ajuns la gradinita, imi amintesc perfect prima zi cand am plans toata ziua. Apoi la "scoala". Eram foarte "tacut si timid" - asta la scoala, cand scapam de acolo eram "eu" din nou. Acum incerc sa ma "reconstruiesc" sa scap de "masina din cap". Ce sa faci, in "era moderna" mai e nevoie si de asa ceva
Cititi mai jos. Intr-adevar nu voiam sa merg la gradinita, sau la scoala. Dar eram un copil. Nu aveam cum sa nu ascult. A trebuit sa imi distrug "sinele tribal" sau natura mea de fiinta libera, "continuumul" , sa-l ascund si sa ma conformez, sub amenintare. Asta se intampla peste tot in lumea "civilizata". Cei mai multi uita ca au fost vreodata "altfel", oameni liberi. Sau poate nici nu au sansa sa fie vreodata, nici macar pentru cativa ani.
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When the child becomes aware of ideas and impulses that oppose the dictates of civilization, s/he experiences anxiety, which is the signal for danger. It is not the insights and urges themselves that the child fears, but rather the reaction to them on the part of those in charge. Since the child cannot escape from those who control its life, s/he runs away from dangerous thoughts and feelings. In other words, the child institutes repression of its primitive self.Tribal ideas are now isolated, cut off from awareness, and unable to properly influence the future course of events.
The trauma or inescapable terror of civilization is responsible for the derangement of reason. That inner dialogue in the human mind that is the hallmark of self-consciousness has ceased, because the depth-dimension of reflective thought, which is the primitive mind, has been silenced. Modern people no longer hear their own primal voice, and without interaction between new ideas and old ideas, the demands of the individual and the demands of the tribe (and species), there is no deep thinking. On the contrary, when reason is cut off at the roots, it becomes shallow, unable to determine what is of true value in life.
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We have internalized our masters, which is a well-known psychological response to trauma. When faced with overwhelming terror, the human mind splits, with part of itself modeling itself after the oppressor. This is an act of appeasement: "Look," the mind says in effect, "I am like you, so do not harm me." As a result of the civilizing process, together with this psychological defense mechanism known as "identification with the aggressor", we now hear the alien voices of the various representatives of civilization in our heads. Because of these alien ego-identifications we no longer hear our own tribal/primal voice.
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This false self is observable in the frozen facial expressions, stereotypic gestures, and unexamined behavioral patterns of the general public. This false self determines much of our everyday lives, so that we are seldom the origin of our actions. We lapse into the false self at the first sign of danger, under stress, or simply because it is the path of least resistance.
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The importance of this self-respect as a prime motivator of human nature can hardly be overstated; it may enable an individual to defy civilization, even in the face of the hatred of the whole modern world. When an individual acquires fundamental self-respect, then s/he will be made a fool no longer, and all the blows of civilization are nothing but the battle scars of a proud warrior. Civilization is powerless against it, because a person who has re-claimed fundamental self-respect cares nothing about the laws and standards of civilization.
This self-respect leads to genuine self-love, the second and decisive step on the path to sanity, for self-love (and happiness in large measure) consists in becoming one's own ideal again, as in childhood. This self-love eventually overflows and becomes love for others and for external nature.
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Young people know it most certainly; we call that knowledge idealism. They know that there is a way the world is supposed to be, and a magnificent role for themselves in that more beautiful world. Broken to the lesser lives we offer them, they react with hostility, rage, cynicism, depression, escapism, or self-destructionall the defining qualities of modern adolescence. Then we blame them for not bringing these qualities under control, and when they finally have given up their idealism we call them mature. Having given up their idealism, they can get on with the business of survival: practicality and security, comfort and safety, which is what we are left with in the absence of purpose. So we suggest they major in something practical, stay out of trouble, don't take risks, build a résumé. We think we are practical and wise in the ways of the world. Really we are just broken and afraid. We are afraid on their behalf, and, less nobly, we are afraid of what their idealism shows us: the plunder and betrayal of our own youthful possibilities. The recovery of purpose, the acceptance of teleology into the language of science, promises whether directly or metaphorically to undo all of that.
Si mai jos, ii inteleg pe acei europeni care capturati de indieni nu au mai vrut pentru nimic in lume sa revina la "civilizatie". Au gasit un trib, o comunitate din care sa faca parte si libertate personala. "
Continuum Concept" refacut. Nu mai pleci cand gasesti asa ceva. Asta cauta oamenii si nu isi dau seama. Ati citit "Papillon" ?
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Observing a prisoner exchange between the Iroquois and the French in upper New York in 1699, Cadwallader Colden is blunt: notwithstanding the French Commissioners took all the Pains possible to carry Home the French, that were Prisoners with the Five Nations, and they had full Liberty from the Indians, few of them could be persuaded to return. Nor, he has to admit, is this merely a reflection on the quality of French colonial life, for the English had as much Difficulty in persuading their redeemed to come home, despite what Colden would claim were the obvious superiority of English ways:
No Arguments, no Intreaties, nor Tears of their Friends and Relations, could persuade many of them to leave their new Indian Friends and Acquaintance; several of them that were by the Caressings of their Relations persuaded to come Home, in a little Time grew tired of our Manner of living, and run away again to the Indians, and ended their Days with them. On the other Hand, Indian Children have been carefully educated among the English, cloathed and taught, yet, I think, there is not one Instance, that any of these, after they had Liberty to go among their own People, and were come to Age, would remain with the English, but returned to their own Nations, and became as fond of the Indian Manner of Life as those that knew nothing of a civilized Manner of Living. And, he concludes, what he says of this particular prisoner exchange has been found true on many other Occasions.
Benjamin Franklin was even more pointed: When an Indian child is raised in white civilization, he remarks, the civilizing somehow does not stick, and at the first opportunity he will go back to his red relations, from whence there is no hope whatever of redeeming him. But when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoners young by the Indians, and have lived a while among them, tho ransomed by their Friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness toprevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the firstgood Opportunity of escaping again into the Woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them.
There was always the great woods, and the life to be lived within it was, Crevecoeur admits, singularly captivating, perhaps even superior to that so boasted of by the transplanted Europeans. For, as many knew to their rueful amazement, thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those aborigines having from choice become Europeans!