James, you might try looking at laziness (sloth?) as a starting point. Eve was too lazy to ask permission re: eating an apple and Adam was too lazy to check things out when offered said apple. Racism is largely a result of lazy thinking. Despotism, weather in a small group, a town, or a nation, is just a bunch of people trying to take a …
James, you might try looking at laziness (sloth?) as a starting point. Eve was too lazy to ask permission re: eating an apple and Adam was too lazy to check things out when offered said apple. Racism is largely a result of lazy thinking. Despotism, weather in a small group, a town, or a nation, is just a bunch of people trying to take a short cut to real leadership and power. The same can be said about cult members and their leaders. Of course, there is far more involved than this in the genesis of evil, but I believe this is where it starts.
Your description is accurate, but what is the obvious and effective cure for laziness? If you don't know how to cure what you've identified as the cause, then you've identified a symptom. If you've identified the root cause, then what needs to be done is obvious. In other words, at least to me, laziness is just one of many symptoms.
Thank-you, James, for posing this question, and for making me think. There are a couple of concepts that come to mind. The physical notion of inertia, that we tend to keep doing what we do until some force is applied, or Buckminster Fuller's idea of a basic shape making up everything - in his case a tetrahedron, as a way to look at the basic building blocks of everything. What is the 'tetrahedron' of human interactions? What forces act on them? One school of thought is that all thoughts and actions are either an act of love or a cry for it. Is my reply to you a loving act or the admission of the need for love? Being able to identify this in ourselves is key, as is the correct loving response. Responding to someone's cry for love with our own cries builds strife, as does an an act of love that does not address a crier's need - this in fact can be quite damaging.
Am I still describing symptoms? Probably. I doubt I can solve this problem/dilemma on my own. Maybe we can get farther together.
James, you might try looking at laziness (sloth?) as a starting point. Eve was too lazy to ask permission re: eating an apple and Adam was too lazy to check things out when offered said apple. Racism is largely a result of lazy thinking. Despotism, weather in a small group, a town, or a nation, is just a bunch of people trying to take a short cut to real leadership and power. The same can be said about cult members and their leaders. Of course, there is far more involved than this in the genesis of evil, but I believe this is where it starts.
Your description is accurate, but what is the obvious and effective cure for laziness? If you don't know how to cure what you've identified as the cause, then you've identified a symptom. If you've identified the root cause, then what needs to be done is obvious. In other words, at least to me, laziness is just one of many symptoms.
Thank-you, James, for posing this question, and for making me think. There are a couple of concepts that come to mind. The physical notion of inertia, that we tend to keep doing what we do until some force is applied, or Buckminster Fuller's idea of a basic shape making up everything - in his case a tetrahedron, as a way to look at the basic building blocks of everything. What is the 'tetrahedron' of human interactions? What forces act on them? One school of thought is that all thoughts and actions are either an act of love or a cry for it. Is my reply to you a loving act or the admission of the need for love? Being able to identify this in ourselves is key, as is the correct loving response. Responding to someone's cry for love with our own cries builds strife, as does an an act of love that does not address a crier's need - this in fact can be quite damaging.
Am I still describing symptoms? Probably. I doubt I can solve this problem/dilemma on my own. Maybe we can get farther together.