4) Invest in health, including mental and emotional health, and
5) Invest in education, access to facts, and sharing of expertise.
How is it that the mental health profession has done such a poor job warning and inoculating the public to this authoritarian, cultic contagion? How is it warnings to extinction level events go unheeded? We all know Cassandra was fated to speak truth, but not be believed.
Yet is Cassandra's example the only way?
When another person speaks to me in ways I don't understand about seeing inward so I may better evaluate my own most deeply held thoughts, feelings, and values, I become irritated, then angered, then outraged, and then infuriated. This is why Cassandra remains unheard. This happens to everyone as we examine our own weaknesses, but the story doesn't end there. Ego's only focus is itself; its survival and dominance. But Ego's dominance is a lie; a chimera. We are much more than Ego. Most of us live somewhere on a continuum of Egoic-----Non-Egoic behavior, determined by our conscious choices.
A disciplined practice of the scientific dialectic is our best tool for pursuing truth and evidence-based fact, yet how can we implement this tool when we're unable to calibrate the objectivity of ourselves observing as closely as we calibrate our observing instruments?
We take Ego so much for granted in the human condition we allow it to contaminate our thoughts and feelings, which is easy to see in others, but hard in ourselves. Why should cultists be concerned about their cultic views when the professionals of our day are so poor at monitoring their own professions?
While it's easy to find evidence of an Egoic scientific dialectic in how practitioners misuse the scientific method in their professions today, there is also a Non-Egoic scientific dialectic which is a healthier, more accurate, and life-affirming way to practice the pursuit of truth both in the lab and in our pews.
I've discovered those most resistant to observing Ego are professionals who've built their careers, livelihoods, and self-esteem upon Egoic views of themselves.
Excellent refocusing that enhances our ability to see more clearly the forest through the trees, Dr. Lee. What you seem to be suggesting we need is a kind of parallel, or more panoptic and multilayered, Doomsday Clock, one that might be called something like the “World Psychotic Breakdown Clock” that better captures and calibrates our movement toward collective mental and physical annihilation.
I’ve been to Hiroshima and to the bomb survivors’ museum there. It seems more than appropriate that representatives from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and any others whose families have been affected by nuclear weapons and reactors.
Among other suggestions, I believe you've outlined that we need to:
1) Reduce exposure to "the leader,"
2) Reduce cultic programming,
3) Change circumstances fostering cultic contagion,
4) Invest in health, including mental and emotional health, and
5) Invest in education, access to facts, and sharing of expertise.
How is it that the mental health profession has done such a poor job warning and inoculating the public to this authoritarian, cultic contagion? How is it warnings to extinction level events go unheeded? We all know Cassandra was fated to speak truth, but not be believed.
Yet is Cassandra's example the only way?
When another person speaks to me in ways I don't understand about seeing inward so I may better evaluate my own most deeply held thoughts, feelings, and values, I become irritated, then angered, then outraged, and then infuriated. This is why Cassandra remains unheard. This happens to everyone as we examine our own weaknesses, but the story doesn't end there. Ego's only focus is itself; its survival and dominance. But Ego's dominance is a lie; a chimera. We are much more than Ego. Most of us live somewhere on a continuum of Egoic-----Non-Egoic behavior, determined by our conscious choices.
A disciplined practice of the scientific dialectic is our best tool for pursuing truth and evidence-based fact, yet how can we implement this tool when we're unable to calibrate the objectivity of ourselves observing as closely as we calibrate our observing instruments?
We take Ego so much for granted in the human condition we allow it to contaminate our thoughts and feelings, which is easy to see in others, but hard in ourselves. Why should cultists be concerned about their cultic views when the professionals of our day are so poor at monitoring their own professions?
While it's easy to find evidence of an Egoic scientific dialectic in how practitioners misuse the scientific method in their professions today, there is also a Non-Egoic scientific dialectic which is a healthier, more accurate, and life-affirming way to practice the pursuit of truth both in the lab and in our pews.
I've discovered those most resistant to observing Ego are professionals who've built their careers, livelihoods, and self-esteem upon Egoic views of themselves.
Excellent refocusing that enhances our ability to see more clearly the forest through the trees, Dr. Lee. What you seem to be suggesting we need is a kind of parallel, or more panoptic and multilayered, Doomsday Clock, one that might be called something like the “World Psychotic Breakdown Clock” that better captures and calibrates our movement toward collective mental and physical annihilation.
I’ve been to Hiroshima and to the bomb survivors’ museum there. It seems more than appropriate that representatives from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and any others whose families have been affected by nuclear weapons and reactors.
I have always credited the lawyers and judges that I know with great wisdom. Perhaps I was mistaken.