...(and all the other named & unnamed "groups" of clowns, misfits, and misanthropes everywhere)?
Over the centuries, decades, years, and now months - moving very quickly into days and hours, thanks to the Internet and Smartphones! - there has always been the need in the human species for such loosely structured so-called "terrorist" groups to stir up the populace, because without such in-everyone's-face threats of death, terror, war, rape, pillage, plunder and downright destruction of one sort or another (variously called by the populace : evil, wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, corrupt, depraved, villainous, nefarious, vicious, malicious, etc.) what would mankind think about?
Prior to mass communications a couple hundred years ago - from Pony Express, to Telegraph, Phones, Computers, and now Smartphones - staying alive until you were 30 or 40, gathering enough food to feed yourself and family, reproducing lots of little ones, and very little else, practically all "information" was literally handed down to you word of mouth... no more thinking required, given the way human brains are so easily programmed by whatever voice is blaring in their ears at the time. And that was it, what's left? Sure, Okay, Obviously - Life is tough for everyone but the rich and powerful and privileged (and even they have issues), but in general, all concerns WERE LOCAL, in one's immediate neighborhood, and could be dealt with locally. But today, everything is several orders of magnitude more difficult than they ever were before. There was THEN nothing like what we have TODAY with INSTANT WORLDWIDE COMMUNICATION broadcasting fear around the globe, including imminent destruction of civilizations, species, environments and damn near everything else... you know, like The Sixth Extinction, which for us today is actually looming large on the near horizon! Hell, this continual drum-beat is now dominating most nationwide media outlets, if not elsewhere, 24 hours a day, giving many millions around the world... here it comes, ready or not... MORE TO THINK ABOUT.
Most of this reactionary "thinking" is no different from all other kinds of ordinary thinking, but in a few - a very few it seems - these usually external negative threats to life and limb serve to ignite parts of their brains where "higher level Thinking" occurs. Such as, but not limited to: "What to do, What to do!?!?" There is such a place (skill, talent, art, function, ability or whatever you want to call it) in everyone, but very few ever experience it. Why? Because ordinary human thought is always reactionary - reacting to stimuli of some kind, both internal and external. And as Albert E. suggested paraphrased here: "We cannot solve our problems (including ordinary reactionary thinking) with the same (ordinary reactionary) thinking we use all the time." Back in the day when parents, siblings and other similarly ordinary people pushed language, ideas and concepts into our brains, there was NO ONE AVAILABLE to teach "higher level Thinking".
That "PLACE" referred to above, is a mythical, even mystical - for most - suggestion of "higher level Thinking" but few there be who have ANYTHING useful to say about it, and so, therein lies the opening premise: the need for negative external influences that serve to ignite parts of the brain where this "higher level Thinking" takes place... sometimes referred to by the fanciful term: Epiphanic mind music... or maybe I read that in a comic book, or maybe I made it up.
It is extremely rare to come up with, to create, to generate, Epiphanic mind music without some stimulus, even if it's just a thought - like riding on a light beam, or a bathtub overflowing, or a fire crackling in one's face sending sparks spiraling up the flue, or an apple falling on one's head. So, how does Life handle this situation, given that the Primary Aim of Life is not suicidal (killing off parts of itself indiscriminately to the overall detriment of the Being) but evolutionary (Growth, and Expansion, of Self and Being): It continually riles up the human species in every way possible, SO THAT a few here and there rise to the higher call of the species, and start producing Thoughts which benefit self and species, one's own and all others.
Good on ya' Life.
Think About It. Imagine a world without any such supposedly negative influences of any kind? People have tried, of course - hence their "heaven", "paradise", "nirvana", "shamballa", blah, blah, blah, and etc. - but these do NOT, and can NOT, exist on this plane, on this planet, probably even in this Solar System. In other words, they are made up terms, fantasy ideas, by ordinary humans who simply wanted release from the ongoing, never-ending fears involved with being alive in a human body - primarily the Big D.Most of this reactionary "thinking" is no different from all other kinds of ordinary thinking, but in a few - a very few it seems - these usually external negative threats to life and limb serve to ignite parts of their brains where "higher level Thinking" occurs. Such as, but not limited to: "What to do, What to do!?!?" There is such a place (skill, talent, art, function, ability or whatever you want to call it) in everyone, but very few ever experience it. Why? Because ordinary human thought is always reactionary - reacting to stimuli of some kind, both internal and external. And as Albert E. suggested paraphrased here: "We cannot solve our problems (including ordinary reactionary thinking) with the same (ordinary reactionary) thinking we use all the time." Back in the day when parents, siblings and other similarly ordinary people pushed language, ideas and concepts into our brains, there was NO ONE AVAILABLE to teach "higher level Thinking".
That "PLACE" referred to above, is a mythical, even mystical - for most - suggestion of "higher level Thinking" but few there be who have ANYTHING useful to say about it, and so, therein lies the opening premise: the need for negative external influences that serve to ignite parts of the brain where this "higher level Thinking" takes place... sometimes referred to by the fanciful term: Epiphanic mind music... or maybe I read that in a comic book, or maybe I made it up.
It is extremely rare to come up with, to create, to generate, Epiphanic mind music without some stimulus, even if it's just a thought - like riding on a light beam, or a bathtub overflowing, or a fire crackling in one's face sending sparks spiraling up the flue, or an apple falling on one's head. So, how does Life handle this situation, given that the Primary Aim of Life is not suicidal (killing off parts of itself indiscriminately to the overall detriment of the Being) but evolutionary (Growth, and Expansion, of Self and Being): It continually riles up the human species in every way possible, SO THAT a few here and there rise to the higher call of the species, and start producing Thoughts which benefit self and species, one's own and all others.
There have been many examples of this, in all walks of life.
Go look for them, you will find them.
Maybe one day, "oh frabjous day", you will BE such an example.
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