I am coming at this from a different angle and without the
benefit of watching the vid’s…(as is well known, I hate the use
of video’s in place of arguments even if the vid’s do a better job
of argument then a synopsis of the video would do… I just don’t like
video’s doing the arguments, but it is a personal thing… sorry)
awareness… I have argued for self-awareness for some time now…
but why? I see the question as being about “knowing thyself”
how do we engage in “knowing thyself”? or how do we begin to
know who we are by becoming aware of who we are…
this awareness, which can be thought of as focus upon oneself…
thus focus upon oneself isn’t the solipsism of the young where they can
only focus upon themselves without becoming aware of anything outside
of their own thoughts or feelings…
my concentration is upon this focus…the act of becoming aware…
the problem with the modern world, one of many problems, is
that we are distracted by multiple things going on…one of reasons I
stay so isolated from people is to remain focus on my thoughts…
if I allow others to engage with me, I lose focus on what is important which
is my engagement with who I am and how I can become human……
I basically work or I am at home… that is it…I don’t go out, I don’t talk
on the phone, I don’t, for the most part, engage in e-mail or facebook or
anything else that might distract me from my becoming aware…
I keep isolated to help me remain focus on what it means to become human…
I have removed the distractions of modern day life and I am solely focus
on becoming…to become aware, to engage in becoming aware, requires
this focus of isolation…we cannot allow the modern world to distract us from
our goal, be it becoming who we are or be it engaging in the task of
Socrates which is “the unexamined life isn’t worth living” so, I have
engaged in my examination of life and my life in particular……
but to do so, requires, demands isolation and focus upon the task
at hand and that takes a certain dedication to isolate one from
the habits and routines of the modern world…another form of
being solipsistic as exhibited by the young, but not really…
the perfect example of solipsism is the idea of “what is in it for me”
as if every single question must some how relate to oneself or it isn’t
meaningful…a question can be meaningful and still not directly
be about any specific person…
now I may completely missed the point here, but hay, that is isolation
for you… sometimes you miss the direct point but you make the point
anyway because about it is about everyone…
do you have the ability to focus on the task at hand or are you a “modern”
person who has a million things trying to gain your attention?
Kropotkin