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Fit for Living
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Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:On the brilliance of activity
If id is blocked, more realism could bring help
BEING exemplary is linked to being handy, skilled, or catering to one's deep needs, including sensual activities.What we call instincts are linked to senses and very common sense experiences - sensory inputs and outputs. That there is much and vast wisdom tied in with the old senses of the old body (Adam) them, is not to be overlooked. However, not all forms and variants of handiness is linked to the body and its senses in an urban environment, as it is designed in other keys, so to speak, using other keynotes than the ones one finds or detects in the natural scenery or setting - or inside oneself. That is the id system - a baboon under your skin, if you stand that metaphor.
But there are other animals, lots of other animals, and we may now and then detect things in how they live along, things that tend to impress lessons on some of us. Many ancient fables do that as well, but basic realism is better if the real need is to learn how to cope well - and that aids being exempary in real life, hopefully.
To have a good day and live on at the very least, most animals that bear some likeness to man, have to be butchers in order to be exempary - most of them turn into night-roving experts, or maybe butchers at day-time. If they succeed, they normally have what they need to live on another day or three - even time for fondling their cubs.
In the long run a largely ruthless butchering business serves nature. It has shown up that sanity is preserved through it. Yet, things were better before living beings on this globe ran out of place, of fit habitats, as we now call it.
This is to highlight what being exempary in the realm of the senses often comes down to. But it must be said, with pigs and monkeys in their natural environments, the striving for food is not too hard. Humans have much in common with these beings, physiologically speaking.
Rooted in id: stages and outward expressivity too, perhaps
What is necessary is not the attempt to vacate the mind, but that the conscious mind be led on to the subtle states of thinking to eventually transcend the subtlest state and arrive at the positive state of Being. - MaharishiTHE ID (libidous) system is natural - linked to both one's thinking and perceptive capacities. Basic concepts of Sigmund Freud through Erik Erikson and others have had much influence on the Western culture, and they seem to agree splendidly with our first outlooks above. Humans grow through phases or stages that tie in with major changes of the libido outlets. What is called general capacity of abstract thinking, links up to id too, given that one's mental associations are linked to libido, or rather, express it more or less.
If the rough scheme of developing man is largely like this, one is to be rooted in things that bring on zest or vitality, for they are id-derivations. And what is more - just as Dr. Gordon Allport of Harvard University has theorised about through his views on so-called proprium - a man's growth of influence is tied in with a certain enlargement of the deep will - one's interests may expand in the same measure as the will links up to and expands outwards or onwards somehow. [Cf. Pest; Pao]
The hierarchy of needs that Dr. Abraham Maslow of Brandeis University systematised, takes for granted that physical needs need to be well fed and taken care of, before what is called higher growth operating in other channels or funnels, may reach peak levels. His hierarchy thinking may be debated, and should be - maybe it may be fit to speak of preponderances through his pyramidal outlooks. [Puse; Zto; Rel]
Not everybody considers that good men may look stupid and may be given good chances through it
Peace can be lasting only if the mind could be made happy [. . .] Only if the very nature of the mind could be transformed to bliss consciousness. - MaharishiMOST NEEDS are well designed, and most needs should be met. If that is not possible where one is, something in the future is at stake, is the bet.
Not all needs are called good and sane, but often there is a need for their outlets anyhow. If a child of murderous intentions joins the Army, he may become a hero, highly decorated, as a general - instead of becoming a butcher or highwayman. The channels of id-linked needs are very important, for they can be modified, and some make us welcome - others not. This was to highlight that needs have to be given good and reasonable chances to be fed to mature in socially acceptable ways.
Not all needs are good needs. The need to survive often asks for killing - that is how the world of animals is fixed. Birds of prey and beasts of prey don't ask others to make sacrifices for this and that ideal cause. Instead they attack from behind or in any other convenient way, as a matter of fact.
To go for rather strong, yet delicate sense experiences first and learn from them, is linked to old knowledge, then: First, the wisdom of the senses; second, the wisdom operating inside the human organism and its various senses, and third: the wisdom of making mistakes - one may eventually learn awfully much from them, if one survives, of course.
Not everybody knows that it may be very, very wise to deviate from nature's ruthless means and ways, from the ways of very carnal men, or worldlings, and build tact and culture to ease higher outlets, including art. And not everybody knows it may be very, very wise to make lots of well-directed, careful blunders - at least to look at - but there you have it.
Good things can look stupid, and stupid things may look good in the eyes of the majority. That is to be reckoned with, at least in line with Abraham Maslow's thinking, and the thinking of many others.
I don't say we should be primitive and resort to blunders, only that there are those that deviate from conformity in very positive ways, as Dr. Abraham Maslow sees them [Cf. Puse]. Then there are also "minus deviants" among men. They may look silly and be silly, while the experts of climbing into higher levels, may look silly and be very cunning in their ways it often happen.
These things may not be found out by common men before they are out of breath, so to speak - that is, worn out and much lamed in major ways. There is good reason to guess that common or conform men - the majority of mankind - may not rise enough to find out who are the real experts of living till it's all over.
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