Heres a ramble (probs drunk) from the Drahcir Nessalk days I found. Conception of reality : the coin. Ideology in every aspect of culture dominates our direction of action towards something we want or away from that shit I dont like. This is the natural way many philosophers come to term, rationale behavior. . We do what we think, feel, observe, stink, is best, whatever you might call it. Ideology then, is the conception of that observation in advance of the actual situation. Its something I think humans are uniquely able to do. A creature can kill a buffalo, but a human is aware that they can push a whole herd off a cliff if they do it a certain way. That certain way, or method of action, is what anybody may call an idea. Ideas are necessary to the function of humans because they are again, uniquely aware that they act in ways away from danger and towards cheesecake. We know that there is thinking behind what is good for us. That disconnection, of not always doing what is good for us, might come back to the ideas that have crafted that decision making. On a personal level, I may forget to take the forks out of the toaster before I tan myself to sleep, and you might go whoa! Thats some crazy idea that might work for you pal! And then we might say together that we forget to think of the starving babies when we go to that young Mcdonalds. Buuut, we might think of Starvin Marvin , as unique human beings as we are, as a beneficiary of the act that is happening. In fact, we must feel that way. Or else, according to rational behavior, we would stray away and say no way Josè. Further though, we may together, in line for fries, think that African system is altogether not related, and for some manifestation of reality, again the idea striking, that it is something differentiated, alienated from yourself. As if in another world. And that is the disconnect, I think, of the ideologies driving the acts we commit, whether eating a GMO feed lot pig or clothing ourselves with the finest Haitian polyester. We do these things with one glance, and I suppose at the root, this is a discovery of the counter ideology, that unearths, if you will, or whistle-blows most of human activity. For if there are two sides to the coin, you wonder why the coin is flipped in the first place. I mean to say, if there is a manner in which we can see the world as full of fighting wars and producing the cheapest foods from the furthest corners of the globe to live, and then also you may see the same global reality in the ideas of terrorism and bioengineering, well we must see the root of the act or material goings-on that may offer our unique observation skills. The employment of that skill, again of choosing the greatest good, or the worst evil to our self interests, is abstracted in a way, or several ways, to lend me to say, what is right? What is the best or worst of what I am doing. Really, that is the root of the doctrine we are taught. A ranking system of what will grow our available goods. That is nothing really to say about what is good or bad in a dire moment but rather engages in the human capacity to plan, manipulate and conceive the future. Another uniqueness about humans that lends the ideologies we employ to our lives. The seven sins, they might say, arise in this uniqueness of people. It is that certain way, as mentioned, that might get us above our current situation, and that we might take pride-- the idea-- in what we do to manifest that future. It is in that manifestation though I feel that people disconnect from the global community that we are most certainly a part of. Easily, that certainty comes out in the example: you are special, there is nobody out there like you and you bring to the universe what nothing could ever do! Strong words of encouragement--the idea-- sure. Flip it though and say there is nobody like me. I am the unique flavor of this universe and I bring to it nothing anything could ever in the future and past. That is the idea, I think of the ego, and the disconnection we might have with that, and our rational behavior we exhibit on a global scale. Because then you might extend that example of individuality and self appointment of regal status to the acts of governments, corporations, institutions, all things socially made up, really. We are trained to think that these things, blocks of wood on terrain, all service a good, as something we drive for in a collective establishment away from obstacle and danger. And then perhaps the larger these ideas become, it is harder to see the influence on others. Or perhaps see that the institutions we appoint ourselves are prescribed to other people, with a coin-flipped perception of what really is going on. The coin, the foundation on which there can even be 2 sides of every story, is the root of what we as humans misapply in our actions, sometimes personally, and increasingly in the institution of justice. And so we see in the 21st century a time of overwhelming technology, communication and weaponry, a bold observation of what is going on, but seeing that every issue is connected, as we all are, is overlooked through the vastness of ideology and indoctrination of those ideas.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 05:18:16 +0000
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