The Maelstrom of Violence

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(02-02-2021, 09:54 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-02-2021, 05:07 PM)Einzige Wrote:

(02-02-2021, 04:17 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-02-2021, 03:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-02-2021, 01:25 PM)Einzige Wrote: The average person absolutely would be artsy and creative and intellectually curious if the world allowed for it, but the overriding demand for profitability in all human endeavors precludes it. Those social pathologies (and I say this as a victim of it myself) overwhelmingly stem from feelings of social uselessness, which are grossly exacerbated by bourgeois class society.

I think I mostly agree with Einzige's statement.

You must limit who you associate with to a narrow few, because I know many people unable to even retire properly.  Half just watch TV and complain about this and that.  Others complain of boredom.

Half of those people would be much more fit and active if the world were genuinely accessible to them. Retirement in the sense of drawing on a limited pool of funds to fund limited activities socially fit for the elderly shouldn't exist.

Strange to say, mostly I agree with Einzige here. I agree with you too David, in that a lot of people just watch TV and complain. I watch too much, and complain too much, and write on this thing too much. I just think that we all have a lot of creative and intellectual abilities, even if we are older, but we are not encouraged to develop this, and the distractions of such things as TV and internet detract from this as well. Whether old or young, our society does not encourage culture, and our culture is vapid and uninspiring. So it's no wonder people don't participate in it very much. We are told that our life purpose is to do what makes money. And most of us don't get much of it anyway. For any time of life. That cuts off other activities like keeping fit. And as Alan Watts said, we are brainwashed to live for the future, but the future never comes, and so our present is debilitated.

I must also concur, if I am to express my concurrence in a different way. After we are gone, the only record that most of us can have that anyone will care about (unless at a high level in something in no way creative, like entrepreneurship, athleticism or military service at a certain level -- and God forbid, criminality) is creativity, It is what we paint, write, tell as history, compose, perform, build, design, sculpt, etc. that people might remember. With the possible exception of some cars, most things mass produced will lose their worthiness of memory as they reach the end of their useful lives. 

I remember hearing some old man talking about his mother taking the stones culled from the field and making them into the exterior of the house. That was a creative activity, and it will be interesting after people forget about it. (I can't say more about it, as the fellow told me about this while I was taking the Census, and anything that anyone tells me is confidential. I really can say no more, including the location. Too bad. 

I heard some antique dealer lamenting that people buy cheap furniture that people can put together easily as TV or stereo stands or other such things rather than buying some antique furniture that will long outlast the particleboard trash. The only good thing that I can say about one such item that I have is that it is obsolete enough that when I am ever flush with cash I might buy some genuine antique furniture that I can repurpose as a TV or stereo stand. (I do watch PBS and some old movies and video, especially of nature). The antique furniture isn't all that expensive, but take that shoddy stuff and replace it every few years, and the money adds up over time.  

So go paint! Play some music on the piano, guitar, organ, etc. and record it! If you can do your own carpentry then do it. Got an old and interesting story to tell? Write it down!