this is the next post…
I think that the reason we have such issues is that we take our
positions ad hoc… which is to say, we make it up… unions, um,
I think that union are good or unions are bad… and we hold
individual, separate idea’s about people, events, idea’s…
instead we should hold a unified, whole complete picture
of who we are and what is out possibilities……
so, what is your response to the CV?
If we ad hoc it, then we have a hard time trying to work it
into our philosophical understanding of the world…
but, if we have a comprehensive overall, way of life understanding
of the world, then we can tie CV into that overall system…
let us take an example, Epicureanism: the system of philosophy
based on the teaching of Epicurus, and the greatest good is to
seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquility,
freedom from fear (ataraxia) and absence from bodily pain (aponia)
we use Epicureanism as our way of life, as our base understanding of
the world…it is easy to then create an understanding of CV into
an already existing system……as we try to avoid illness and avoid
passing that illness to others, so they can avoid pain, we can follow
the current recommendations of the state or the doctors…
we only have a hard tying new ideas and thoughts into
a patchwork of idea’s and thoughts and maps that we
have of the world and the universe……
in other words, our very beliefs are a patchwork of ism’s
and ideologies and habits and superstitions and prejudices
and biases…… we don’t have unified, overall “way of life”
thinking about who we are and what is the world and what are
our possibilities…
our idea’s and thoughts are a patchwork of various assorted
mix of ism’s and ideologies and prejudices and habits and biases and…
Why?
because most of us have never actually worked out what we really believe in…
we still hold to the patchwork of indoctrinations that we received as children…
indoctrinations we received from the family or the state or the media or
religion or socially…
our personal belief system is a patchwork of various mishmash of wildly different
idea’ and ism’s and ideologies…
there is ‘no rhyme or reason’ to the collection of beliefs we hold about
the world… we don’t have a unified, coherent belief system about the world
we don’t have a “way of life” understanding of the world…
everything is ad hoc…
this explains the wildly diverse and often contradictory beliefs we hold
both individually and collectively…
if you have a unified, coherent belief system which you practice
as a way of life, then it is easy to have a philosophical response to
CV or to respond to an ever changing environment or to think
about different idea’s or ism’s……
the problem lies within our failure to hold to a coherent,
unified belief system which we then practice as a way of life…
it isn’t about CV being the problem, it is about how we respond to it…
you can hold to a coherent, unified belief system and still be able to
adapt to ever changing conditions that life presents to us…
our philosophy, our history, our economics, our various responses
and understanding of the world is ad hoc… stitched together from
various sources and held together by duck tape and hope…
this is true individually and collectively…
and how can one respond philosophically to CV when all our
understanding of the world is stitched together from various
diverse sources?
what beliefs do you hold?
are they a coherent, unified whole?
or are they stitch together from wildly diverse
sources? are your beliefs ad hoc?
Kropotkin