Awareness of positioning in the human hierarchy arises mainly for two reasons. Conditionally, position in your society is a remunerative and social outcome. It's a determinant of your survival. Then there is much attention given over to those who don't make it as an aberration that results from the loss of potential of human nature. It is almost a justification for the need to play the game as if the game really is justified. Most of that as structure is found in Game Theory anyhow.
Is there then a solution to both the game and those aware of it. Joseph Heller reflected with Catch 22 the nature of people, civilisation, human organisation and scaled activity is chaotic, destructive. Yossarian as the existential problem. Unlike any post war work before it (cp) solution was proffered in the very being of Dostoyevsky's apparent failure of the Underground man. A conditional yet, once understood, necessary compunction irrespective of the fact societal dependency is a realist truth. Orr as the phenomenological solution.
You can spend one's life as an academic, as someone with wisdom or with insight into the world around you, even better as all three. To observe and understand is still insufficient. To be is the solution - check with Orr.
Awareness of positioning in the human hierarchy arises mainly for two reasons. Conditionally, position in your society is a remunerative and social outcome. It's a determinant of your survival. Then there is much attention given over to those who don't make it as an aberration that results from the loss of potential of human nature. It is almost a justification for the need to play the game as if the game really is justified. Most of that as structure is found in Game Theory anyhow.
Is there then a solution to both the game and those aware of it. Joseph Heller reflected with Catch 22 the nature of people, civilisation, human organisation and scaled activity is chaotic, destructive. Yossarian as the existential problem. Unlike any post war work before it (cp) solution was proffered in the very being of Dostoyevsky's apparent failure of the Underground man. A conditional yet, once understood, necessary compunction irrespective of the fact societal dependency is a realist truth. Orr as the phenomenological solution.
You can spend one's life as an academic, as someone with wisdom or with insight into the world around you, even better as all three. To observe and understand is still insufficient. To be is the solution - check with Orr.
Came via Quinn Slobodian's Blue Sky link.