Our thinking and feeling is a fabrication of our metaphysical as well as physical environs. Most to all of us grow up in the cultural and social web of the temporal and secular operations of our times. We are creatures (more like puppets) of our time. The influences on our thoughts and emotions come from our intimate, personal relationships and from our public commerce for work, recreation, and avocation. These latter three areas are usually connected by associations in one or more of these last three, as well as our intimate realm. In the spirit of accommodation and cooperation a mechanism of social consensus develops. This consensus provides the conceptual architecture for what we find appropriate and feasible to be in congruence and have involvement in the cultural and social activities of our contemporaries. For most, a stable comfort zone is sought to have an effective commercial-political, or social status within the circle of association we exist. A mental and emotional circumcision of thinking and behavior occurs to consolidate and enhance that status within one's association.
As was stated in the Gospels, each outlook 'has their rewards'. The 'reward' may also be a double-edged sword. The edge that cuts against one is what we have forsaken. For materialists in this consumer culture it is the intangibles that do not support the trappings of the pursuit of acquisition and the cultural and social status they bring.
I question the importance of the cultural and social status, which is just an emotional fabrication of the social and cultural process. That process' paradigms have their inherent limits that have their TEMPORAL justification, which can have its historical repudiation a few decades to centuries later. The paradoxes and inconsistencies we adapt and accommodate ourselves to fit in and go along with the social or cultural flavor of the time, degrade our cognitive acuity and conceptual foresight. That degradation is, 'IMO', no insignificant matter. "The stone which the builders have thrown away..."
In the rabid, addiction for acquisition and consumption, carnally and sensually, we have made ourselves pawns to a Pavlovian process that has conditioned too many of us from our non-compensated abilities to be dependent on externals, from people to things to do the 'work' which our abilities could and should be doing. In so doing we have lost our connection to our organic human capacities.
Those capacities go beyond socializing emoting and accommodating that exists beyond basic empathy and sympathy. Instead of being the extorted pawns of social and cultural limitations for behavioral conformity, in either the intimate or public realm, we can be the vessels of insights and vision to conceptions that have more to do than with our aggrandizing acquisition and avaricious consumption for carnal and sensual satiation and gluttony. Once we go past the comfort zones of avaricious satiation and the mantra of logic which contends for that pursuit, exclusive of other conceptions, then we become liberated in mind and emotions to be free to think and choose from the conscientiousness of conscience than from the social or cultural consensual limitations.
Part of that thinking and choosing is the communications that are nonverbal and can be felt without explicit manifestations. Feeling the attitudes and presences transmitted, as well as the ones you are affected as the recipient, are a function of a cognitive sensitivity and acuity. That sensitivity and acuity comes from the freedom of emotional obligation and intellectual mandarin-isms. When your mind is not cluttered by your obsessions of avariciousness to the frivolous spectacles and distractions, its receptors aren't cluttered by the cognitive noise that physically dissipates your energy and the coherence needed for that sensitivity and acuity.
In that sensitivity and acuity is discovered the serendipity in the cosmic process. The world and universe beyond human fudging-around is not a random throw of the dice, but a choreography of force fields interacting: constructing and deconstructing, then constructing, again, to find that greater synergistic harmony.
This age we are now passing through is the end-times of hoarding and possession that places tangible and intangible barriers between the natural processes. The cultural and political efforts to maintain the illusion of plenty for consumption and satiation are the howlings of anachronistic mantras. As the victims of the margins increase, the advocates and apologists for this outmoded thinking will lose their intellectual and moral authority. Those who live in the smugness of this emotional bubble will witness or experience the deconstructing of the trappings that formerly were the foundation of their intellect and emotions.
In the meantime, those who've gone to the frontiers of their comfort zones will discover connections that are amaterial and intangible to carnal and sensuality, while being the sensuously cherished of one's aesthetics shared in the network of the nonexplicit, intuitive senses.
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