02-01-2008, 11:42 PM
Growth and development
I have been thinking about how one develops in this modern society. Imo this topic would have a lot to discuss about.
Here are a few to validate my point:
If one would look at a person from evolutionary standpoints, one would be able to come up with some of the following conclusions:
(and for all of you creationists out there, from the point that humans have the ability to adapt if our surroundings change, call it what you will, lets try to stick on the same page here
)
1) My grandparents parents and many of the worlds people today know/knew a world without electricity, computers, apartment buildings and cars. This means that the development of our society has happened within a very short time.
Now think that from an evolutionary standpoint our bodies are still in shock, due to a radical change in our diet 10,000 years ago when agriculture was developed.
Thus, it would be pretty safe to say that our instincts are pretty much from the same era (perhaps from even further away).
Times before organized civilization we could pretty much trust our instincts to tell us how to cope with situations. Our world corresponded with our biological side, but with the growing complexity of our surroundings things ain't that easy no more.
We still have the same needs:
-Social needs (to belong, to be accepted and acknowledged)
The base that makes us a hyper-social specie
-Physical needs (general movement, muscle stress etc...)
An instinct easy to override with thought, but still a part of us. Why one feels good after a good jog no matter how bad day the person has had? Because you just satisfied a basic need and your body does reward you for it. There is a theorem that most of the depression found in industrialized countries could be avoided with exercise, proper diet and natural sleeping rhythm.
-Sexual needs and roles (male/female sexual roles, mating rituals etc...)
I think everyone has a different idea about this (and other topics as well), but we still look at the same things in a woman. I haven't found a woman alive that would deny being scared and during those times wanting someone to hold her tight, to protect her from all the evils in the world. They are all there... they just take all kinds of forms).
Now, my point is this:
If in the past (like, way way way past) development of a child was relatively easy because:
a) instincts gave the kid some idea what to do, and mostly they were correct, because the surrounding corresponded with them.
b) The standards that the world required from each one of us were smaller or more straight forward, yeah, more clear, not easier.
So now that our world is completely different from what our instincts try to tell us, every child that is born will have to go through a life long search for meaning, persona, acceptance and even the concept of what is real to begin with! Things just ain't simple no more, and we are among the first generations that have to make this into a standard, cause if we don't and things go as they have for a few decades now some bad shit is going to go down
Thus, as I said in one of my other posts:
If we with to ever come even close to understand this world, we have to accept that it ain't gonna happen over night. What we achieve will be the base on which the next generation will start their battles, and the better we are able to pass down the info the easier it will be for them.
If someone has read/thought about similar things I would be very interested to hear about them. Please Discuss when/if the new category is put up
I have been thinking about how one develops in this modern society. Imo this topic would have a lot to discuss about.
Here are a few to validate my point:
If one would look at a person from evolutionary standpoints, one would be able to come up with some of the following conclusions:
(and for all of you creationists out there, from the point that humans have the ability to adapt if our surroundings change, call it what you will, lets try to stick on the same page here
) 1) My grandparents parents and many of the worlds people today know/knew a world without electricity, computers, apartment buildings and cars. This means that the development of our society has happened within a very short time.
Now think that from an evolutionary standpoint our bodies are still in shock, due to a radical change in our diet 10,000 years ago when agriculture was developed.
Thus, it would be pretty safe to say that our instincts are pretty much from the same era (perhaps from even further away).
Times before organized civilization we could pretty much trust our instincts to tell us how to cope with situations. Our world corresponded with our biological side, but with the growing complexity of our surroundings things ain't that easy no more.
We still have the same needs:
-Social needs (to belong, to be accepted and acknowledged)
The base that makes us a hyper-social specie
-Physical needs (general movement, muscle stress etc...)
An instinct easy to override with thought, but still a part of us. Why one feels good after a good jog no matter how bad day the person has had? Because you just satisfied a basic need and your body does reward you for it. There is a theorem that most of the depression found in industrialized countries could be avoided with exercise, proper diet and natural sleeping rhythm.
-Sexual needs and roles (male/female sexual roles, mating rituals etc...)
I think everyone has a different idea about this (and other topics as well), but we still look at the same things in a woman. I haven't found a woman alive that would deny being scared and during those times wanting someone to hold her tight, to protect her from all the evils in the world. They are all there... they just take all kinds of forms).
Now, my point is this:
If in the past (like, way way way past
) development of a child was relatively easy because:a) instincts gave the kid some idea what to do, and mostly they were correct, because the surrounding corresponded with them.
b) The standards that the world required from each one of us were smaller or more straight forward, yeah, more clear, not easier.
So now that our world is completely different from what our instincts try to tell us, every child that is born will have to go through a life long search for meaning, persona, acceptance and even the concept of what is real to begin with! Things just ain't simple no more, and we are among the first generations that have to make this into a standard, cause if we don't and things go as they have for a few decades now some bad shit is going to go down
Thus, as I said in one of my other posts:
If we with to ever come even close to understand this world, we have to accept that it ain't gonna happen over night. What we achieve will be the base on which the next generation will start their battles, and the better we are able to pass down the info the easier it will be for them.
If someone has read/thought about similar things I would be very interested to hear about them. Please Discuss when/if the new category is put up