Something On Social Dynamics
Posted: August 19th, 2014, 9:00 pm
This is a response to request I got from Jester on another post. That one was a discussion on Ukraine & what's been going on there with the civil war & everything. I'll repost what that was & then we can discuss the subject further. What the discussion was:
I think the western side of Ukraine was somewhat duped- they seem to have thought they'd have everything the way tehy already had it, but it'd be easier to make ends meet & to get some luxuries. I get that, but I can say from having lived in this country for well over two decades: that this is usually bait for a hook. There's so much working for a living that a lot of people don't do any living.
More & more you run into problems doing things at your own discretion & part of that is because every damn thing has a price tag on it (a problem when nobody's got any money). Also, things are always somehow tied to someone's business endeavors & they feel infringed on whenever you do anything. They think there's basically some form of conductive annexation- that whatever their efforts touch is theirs. The psychology behind things like that is not good.
Something I'd like to add to that is the concept that money is pretended by some people to be the "life blood of activity," and it's not. Then, this material is loaned out with interest- so someone will never be able to pay it off. I personally feel this is an attempt to privatize activity. To annex agency, overall. This kind of substitutive behavior, not to come off like a religious zealot or anything, I can only think to compare to demonic possession. Look at it: it's basically hi-jacking someone else's life. I can't think of anything else that fits that description, not even parasites.
It might not be anything supernatural, it could just be that someone's personality is like that. Although, I suppose there COULD be situations with supernatural elements to it- perhaps demonic influence, if not possession. I've never seen anything like that myself, but that doesn't mean it's not real. I've noticed a general reluctance to believe in anything intangible & there seems to be a bit of history to that, but a major point is something (or someone) not ever being declared evil. I get that, since someone can't very well disprove an accusation of that & could wind up being a victim of the same evil they were accused of. The Salem Witch Trials come to mind on that & as an EXAMPLE of evil, not proof that it doesn't exist. A potential problem is that something foul might never be counteracted, because something isn't called for what it is & the ball never gets rolling on the level of counteraction. It's very double-edged.
So I don't leave a gap in the information: It seems that the general disbelief in the intangible that I mentioned before (which is more common in someplaces than others) seems to stem from 1700s philosophy & largely from Francis Bacon. The story as I understand it was that the Catholic church had been saying whatever they wanted was reality because of whatever mystery reason they cooked up at the time. After that, he came up with the idea that everything had to have a physical, tangible substance to exist. This isn't true, however. Before you even get to religion this is obvious, because when a person does an action- that action is NOT a substance. For example: If a person moves an object, the person is solid & the object is solid, but the ACTION is not. It's real, it's there, but it's not a material.
I think the western side of Ukraine was somewhat duped- they seem to have thought they'd have everything the way tehy already had it, but it'd be easier to make ends meet & to get some luxuries. I get that, but I can say from having lived in this country for well over two decades: that this is usually bait for a hook. There's so much working for a living that a lot of people don't do any living.
More & more you run into problems doing things at your own discretion & part of that is because every damn thing has a price tag on it (a problem when nobody's got any money). Also, things are always somehow tied to someone's business endeavors & they feel infringed on whenever you do anything. They think there's basically some form of conductive annexation- that whatever their efforts touch is theirs. The psychology behind things like that is not good.
Something I'd like to add to that is the concept that money is pretended by some people to be the "life blood of activity," and it's not. Then, this material is loaned out with interest- so someone will never be able to pay it off. I personally feel this is an attempt to privatize activity. To annex agency, overall. This kind of substitutive behavior, not to come off like a religious zealot or anything, I can only think to compare to demonic possession. Look at it: it's basically hi-jacking someone else's life. I can't think of anything else that fits that description, not even parasites.
It might not be anything supernatural, it could just be that someone's personality is like that. Although, I suppose there COULD be situations with supernatural elements to it- perhaps demonic influence, if not possession. I've never seen anything like that myself, but that doesn't mean it's not real. I've noticed a general reluctance to believe in anything intangible & there seems to be a bit of history to that, but a major point is something (or someone) not ever being declared evil. I get that, since someone can't very well disprove an accusation of that & could wind up being a victim of the same evil they were accused of. The Salem Witch Trials come to mind on that & as an EXAMPLE of evil, not proof that it doesn't exist. A potential problem is that something foul might never be counteracted, because something isn't called for what it is & the ball never gets rolling on the level of counteraction. It's very double-edged.
So I don't leave a gap in the information: It seems that the general disbelief in the intangible that I mentioned before (which is more common in someplaces than others) seems to stem from 1700s philosophy & largely from Francis Bacon. The story as I understand it was that the Catholic church had been saying whatever they wanted was reality because of whatever mystery reason they cooked up at the time. After that, he came up with the idea that everything had to have a physical, tangible substance to exist. This isn't true, however. Before you even get to religion this is obvious, because when a person does an action- that action is NOT a substance. For example: If a person moves an object, the person is solid & the object is solid, but the ACTION is not. It's real, it's there, but it's not a material.