What is our mission operative?
Do we have a mission operative is really the first
place to start.
Do humans appear in any way to be moving towards
some singular sumation? Some final goal?
Do the seemingly petty, selfish, and short-term
actions that inviduals live by fit into to some
larger scheme?
Do our instincts, our core beliefs, play some part
in this scheme, a scheme designed by nature, fate,
or some third power?
Who are we?
Where are we going?
What are we?
Do we know what we have been?
The questions plague us, naggingly, silently,
unspoken, vague and meaningless. They are in the
back of our minds-below our consciousnesses. They
are, however, intrinsic and inexcapable. Everyone
comes upon these questions. That says something
in itself, doesn't it? Humanity has a drive to
fill uniform questions: To seek goals which it
does not know the nature of. The trial, then,
is to uncover this nature.
Start out with what.
Sentient, erect, bipeds with reasoning ability
and communicative ability. Externally, we're
advanced monkeys, though inadequately evolved for
survival in the wild. Taxonomically speaking
"homo erectus" is a false philum, and we should
be considered monkeys.
The few pounds of grey matter is what seperates us
from our animal siblings. Biologically and by our
bone structure, we're monkies, but we're distinct
because we're particularly clever monkies.
We can and do avidly commmunicate.
We do art.
We have evolved an arbitrary value system based
on the movement of small green pieces of paper,
and more oft then not, many of our personal goals
are concerning those pieces of paper.
Our mating rituals, for example, are screamingly
complex. They're based on personality and
physical appearance. Both of those terms,
however, are subjective. There are trends, yes,
but generation to generation, sexual appreciation
and romance fluctuates dramatically.
Our society is based largely upon sex. Fashion
and activities often seeks to attract, or at least
to gain the mystique of being cool-an important
asset for gaining sexual value.
I'm gunna jump tangent for a minute, sorry.
I'm kinda writing this as I go.
I'd have to say that the most intriquing facet of
humanity is the difference between consciousness
and subconsciousness.
Freud said that the subconscious and conscious
work together to prevent the consciousness from
becoming aware of our dreams, of our hidden desires.
The subconscious is, without a doubt, far more
clever than the consciousness. Its analytical,
cold, and objective. In short, its honest. The
subconscious misses nothing. The conscious is
weak and fallible, its based on things like
emotion and mood. Its arbitrary and based on
individual personality. What people recall is
almost completely random, but is apparently based
on a conscious appreciation of subconscious
significance.
I'm rambling, yes, but I mean to do so.
My point, I suppose, is this:
The subconscious is smart. It soaks of far,
far more information than the consciousness.
It have an agenda, though. The subconsciousnes
influences the consciousness. This would suggest
that the subconsciousness has the brain's mission
operative. It knows what it wants, and our
personalities are simply a means to an end.
An example of this is music. Truely defining
music contains extremely complex trends that
cannot be appreciated beyond the fact that it
simply appeals to us. I find that interesting.
The consciousness can have an anonymous
appreciation for a song, it can evoke powerful
emotion, yet they cannot know why. Like music,
emotions are complex and ambigous. People
appreciate different musics perhaps because it
evokes different emotions for them. Someone's
truely favorite song may represent, in some way,
their core being. And yet, most of the music
we are subjected to is offensively trite ****,
and isn't worth more than drowning out our
minds. Classical music is beautiful, some
sparing artists across the course of history.
Ok, I'm gunna try to state my point again.
I don't know what our core goals are, but I think
that they're defined by our subconscious, and that
our conscious motives are clues to subconscious
agendas.
Appreciation of music, art, etc, may show us
a side of ourself that we can look at
analytically.
Sorry this is so bad, I need to think about this
for a bit. I'll get back to this topic.
With any luck, it'll be defined and clear by the
time I'm done.
Do we have a mission operative is really the first
place to start.
Do humans appear in any way to be moving towards
some singular sumation? Some final goal?
Do the seemingly petty, selfish, and short-term
actions that inviduals live by fit into to some
larger scheme?
Do our instincts, our core beliefs, play some part
in this scheme, a scheme designed by nature, fate,
or some third power?
Who are we?
Where are we going?
What are we?
Do we know what we have been?
The questions plague us, naggingly, silently,
unspoken, vague and meaningless. They are in the
back of our minds-below our consciousnesses. They
are, however, intrinsic and inexcapable. Everyone
comes upon these questions. That says something
in itself, doesn't it? Humanity has a drive to
fill uniform questions: To seek goals which it
does not know the nature of. The trial, then,
is to uncover this nature.
Start out with what.
Sentient, erect, bipeds with reasoning ability
and communicative ability. Externally, we're
advanced monkeys, though inadequately evolved for
survival in the wild. Taxonomically speaking
"homo erectus" is a false philum, and we should
be considered monkeys.
The few pounds of grey matter is what seperates us
from our animal siblings. Biologically and by our
bone structure, we're monkies, but we're distinct
because we're particularly clever monkies.
We can and do avidly commmunicate.
We do art.
We have evolved an arbitrary value system based
on the movement of small green pieces of paper,
and more oft then not, many of our personal goals
are concerning those pieces of paper.
Our mating rituals, for example, are screamingly
complex. They're based on personality and
physical appearance. Both of those terms,
however, are subjective. There are trends, yes,
but generation to generation, sexual appreciation
and romance fluctuates dramatically.
Our society is based largely upon sex. Fashion
and activities often seeks to attract, or at least
to gain the mystique of being cool-an important
asset for gaining sexual value.
I'm gunna jump tangent for a minute, sorry.
I'm kinda writing this as I go.
I'd have to say that the most intriquing facet of
humanity is the difference between consciousness
and subconsciousness.
Freud said that the subconscious and conscious
work together to prevent the consciousness from
becoming aware of our dreams, of our hidden desires.
The subconscious is, without a doubt, far more
clever than the consciousness. Its analytical,
cold, and objective. In short, its honest. The
subconscious misses nothing. The conscious is
weak and fallible, its based on things like
emotion and mood. Its arbitrary and based on
individual personality. What people recall is
almost completely random, but is apparently based
on a conscious appreciation of subconscious
significance.
I'm rambling, yes, but I mean to do so.
My point, I suppose, is this:
The subconscious is smart. It soaks of far,
far more information than the consciousness.
It have an agenda, though. The subconsciousnes
influences the consciousness. This would suggest
that the subconsciousness has the brain's mission
operative. It knows what it wants, and our
personalities are simply a means to an end.
An example of this is music. Truely defining
music contains extremely complex trends that
cannot be appreciated beyond the fact that it
simply appeals to us. I find that interesting.
The consciousness can have an anonymous
appreciation for a song, it can evoke powerful
emotion, yet they cannot know why. Like music,
emotions are complex and ambigous. People
appreciate different musics perhaps because it
evokes different emotions for them. Someone's
truely favorite song may represent, in some way,
their core being. And yet, most of the music
we are subjected to is offensively trite ****,
and isn't worth more than drowning out our
minds. Classical music is beautiful, some
sparing artists across the course of history.
Ok, I'm gunna try to state my point again.
I don't know what our core goals are, but I think
that they're defined by our subconscious, and that
our conscious motives are clues to subconscious
agendas.
Appreciation of music, art, etc, may show us
a side of ourself that we can look at
analytically.
Sorry this is so bad, I need to think about this
for a bit. I'll get back to this topic.
With any luck, it'll be defined and clear by the
time I'm done.
