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My thought here is that you have personalized this.
I was a bit a miffed at suddenly being a self-inflated egotist, when it also seemed too harsh that not just Soul and I but anyone else who would take similar position had to be that same egotist too.
If we feel superior, more intelligent, more self and culturally aware, do we help these others by calling them names? Or do we find ways to not think lesser of them and so be able to make a difference by being a good example instead of appearing as a self inflated egotist.
Or do we find ways to not think lesser of them and so be able to make a difference by being a good example instead of appearing [TO THEM] as a self inflated egotist.
But something is interesting:
"It is my position that for most of our species time in development on this planet, we have not been so much individual, but rather collective. That this thought of individualism is a recent occurrence. "
How does this relate to dumbness or otherwise?
Here, his own distinction of himself as an individual as opposed to the masses of people he has defined as the 99% who are dumb sets him, in his own mind, apart from the collective dumbness of the rest.
I am more concerned with the 99% of you that continue to let it happen.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: bw1000
My point here being that I think that the collective mentality of humans for most of our historical time here is still here to a high degree. That each of those 'individuals' within that 99%, (by his account) are not so much dumb as just still most completely embedded within that collective, seeing and understanding reality only from within the prevailing contexts OF those masses. Of those collectives.
If we wish to consider that humans as a collective are 'dumb' then ok. We are. We have arisen from ancient tribal origins to considering ourselves to be the 'crown of creation' and in so doing are turning our little paradise here into a hell hole. Almost at every turn, the things we invent only dig our hole deeper, causing more problems than the ones intended to be solved by those inventions. To me it's like with hindsight we continually turn around and say, 'well we didn't know about those side effects'. But that is another discussion.
originally posted by: randyvs
a reply to: grainofsand
Nah, that's not it at all. I have been delt a lousy hand
but I'm really good at poker. I do see most of humanity
as disgusting because they don't understand what a lousy
hand actually is. Not including yourself that is.
originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: bw1000
for what good would it do to call him dumb in a derogatory manner. None, he's, well, dumb. Here I use the word as I think you have been associating with the word, it is just that with a different mental structure which humans are capable of , the word can be taken so easily as being a slight.