Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by Gerard on March 26, 2021, 7:13 pm, in reply to "Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' "
..and there's nowt wrong within being civilisation critical...we Brits were never really civilised (at least in the way most classicists would appear to understand the term), .. ""Utilising historical evidence of environmental, ecological and sociological change and comparing the resulting information to epidemiological evidence of the density of (and disease frequency within), the coincident human population convinces one that "civilisation" has not always represented improvement in human society, quite the reverse in fact for when practiced "in exclusion" (as it were), it leads to; sociological, economic, environmental, political and cultural collapse. This does not mean that (to paraphrase Mahatma Gandhi), "civilisation would (not), be a good idea", in The West (or anywhere else), if it was practiced given the understanding that the notion is not the be-all-and-end-all of political, sociological or cultural evolution.* It seems that civilisation is a function of the human evolutionary process not the process itself. Food production has always been the controlling factor in human society, the gee-gaws of the civilised world serve only to occlude our basic dependency on our environment. "Decentralisation" (a very "uncivilised" philosophy), maintains that all human beings deserve access to proper "Lebensraum" and that none should be forced into uncomfortable, unhealthy or over-populated living conditions. "Democracy"** may have developed it's popularity within civic society but the concept does not belong to civilisation anymore than a child does to it's parents."..... *"The call us civilised because we're easy to sneak up on" Lone Wati in "The Outlaw Josey Wales":" https://www.arafel.co.uk/2012/02/civilisation-refutation.html
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- O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Ian M March 24, 2021, 12:53 pm
- Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Gerard March 24, 2021, 2:30 pm
- Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Gerard March 24, 2021, 2:43 pm
- Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Tomski March 24, 2021, 5:19 pm
- Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Sinister Burt March 24, 2021, 7:01 pm
- Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - johnlilburne March 25, 2021, 2:11 pm
- Perhaps there are similar patterns as amongst the modern hikikomori?. - Ken Waldron March 25, 2021, 11:34 pm
- It can make you go blind. Nm - Shyaku March 26, 2021, 12:03 pm
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