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Question by alistair: Society is devoted to “enslaving” intelligent people?
There are men and women who spend their entire lives as a sort of a sacrifice to encourage the greatest feasible future for their nation or even humanity-at-large, with a sort of wider, probably even almost an all-encompassing sense of identity.
There are other individuals who spend their entire lives sort of committed to their own satisfaction, not caring what anybody thinks, and even sort of “mooching” as considerably as they can have, with a a lot more smaller and immediate sense of identity, that avoids undertaking overtly charitable acts as “providing back to the community,” unless required.
So making use of a somewhat Nietzschean “master-slave” dialectic, isn’t the initial category the “slaves” and the second “the masters” in the sense of the inherent advantages to oneself that they are pursuing? And does this not add to the frequent reputation of an intellectual’s inability to do things in True LIFE, not some useless abstract plane, even additional, by conditioning the intellectual to believe in a “slavish” self-sacrificing manner in accordance with the initial category, and crippling their a lot more “masculine” dominating skills?
The commoners are not subjected to such rigorous self-sacrificing standards.
+This is based on intention. We argue forever about what is “very good” and “poor”, but the intention is entirely a different matter.
+This argument is realistically intention-based, not something else, so does not endure as a lot from the perspectival indeterminability of what is excellent or not existentially.
+”It requires all kinds to make a planet.” No, it does not. It takes certain types to make a world, not to say universally there is a certainty at what those kinds are, but it does not take all kinds. We reside in a globe which I presume exists, not some postmodern, all truths are equal, Orwellian denial of reality.
A paraphrase: In philosophy and politics 2+2 may possibly equal 5, but in building technologies with math and science, it has to equal four.
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Answer by Don H
It takes all types to make a planet.
It appears to make sense to categorize individuals and attempt to find god ones and bad ones but these are just illusions that we develop.
They are all good people just doing the very best than can to get by. Who is to say that the a single group is smarter than the other?
I can see a excellent argument for the so-known as lazy moochers to be the sensible ones simply because they get by with the least effort.
Love and blessings Don
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Dr weasel Jul 19 2012 - 11:18 pm
You can choose. If you wish to be all about yourself, you are on your own. I won’t stop you and I don’t think anyone else would either. But since the interest is so narrow, you won’t find a lot of people who share your interest.
Or you can be about everyone. You don’t get to be selfish and you don’t get to lead unless you have developed an idea that others will subscribe to. And even then it won’t be about you, it will be about the new direction. One way you are on your own and the other you have society. Pretty basic choice. Those who act with and for society are not slaves. They are committed. A slave has to. The committed choose to. Do what you want.
Authority comes from direction. One has authority when one chooses a direction. One surrenders that authority when that direction is chosen for them. You can make an affirmative decision or you can surrender to another’s. A large number of people have chosen to be a society. The numbers of them are their potential power. The direction of them is their real affect. you have to consider reality when you make decisions, but the choice remains yours.
Think about it…Leaders are those who do. somewhere in their doing, they find others wanting to do the same thing with them. Where did the authority spring from??? His doing..His direction. His own passion. When others feel it is a good direction and subscribe to the direction, they commit themselves to that same goal. They are willing to be a part of it. Slaves must have a slave mentality. Never affirming their own thoughts, always taking from the hand that gifts to them. relying on the welfare of others. To be a leader, you must have the affirmative soul. Never retreating but choosing new ground. choosing a direction and taking responsibility for their own decisions. Recognizing their own vitality. No man is a slave who refused to accept that mentality.
98Bones Jul 20 2012 - 12:10 am
When we speak of hard work it does seem the people taking a free ride have a hold of the whip at times. However, I can say, through my life experience, I’ve seen as many highly intelligent people avoiding work as less intelligent. Many of those people will assume they’re too talented to work and feel society just hasn’t perceived their genius yet. I’ve also seen less intelligent people working exceptionally hard for very little money. They are the most enslaved people I’ve known. They haven’t mentally justified the abuse of the system and don’t have the intelligence to improve their lot. Life doesn’t have convenient boundaries and the more investigation a person does the more people we find that don’t fit into easy explanations.