“If you wish to understand another person ask them what they mean”
-Elmer Sprague
Orwell throws at us that “war is peace” is dangerous in its meaninglessness while remaining behaviorally ideological leading.
And yet in my lifetime:
We have the idea of detente leading to peace by threatening war to maintain peace. But to threaten war against the “major powers” to maintain that peace of detente; then actual wars against what are seen as “lesser players” upon the international scene must be continually carried out to prevent the wider conflict between the powers who are being restrained from warring against each other.
This is really the same as self-defense which is basically a doctrine that aggression must be contained between persons but is acceptable between persons if one is threatened or feels threatened. But then how can the threat to self be defined as non-aggressive and what then constitutes aggression. Does the one fearful of the black jogger have the right to aggressively remove him from one’s neighborhood,and if not, why not? How is it possible to define a presented threat. If one approaches the jogger peacefully suggesting he is not wanted in the neighborhood and he suggests it doesn’t matter if he is wanted in the neighborhood he has a right to be in the neighborhood; has that jogger now crossed the threshold of becoming aggressive enough to be aggressive against him and defend the self aggressively?
What about waking and hearing the burglar in one’s house and confronting the burglar with a gun? If the burglar reacts aggressively,is he defending himself or does the trespass disallow his being able to defend himself?
The idea of making things easy seems appealing. Why would I want to expend more energy than is necessary? Conservation of energy and all that. Of course the principle of conservation of energy is not about the manner of energy expended, but a statement that the total energy in a closed system remaining constant. It can certainly be conservatory of one’s physical system to expend one’s energy in the most efficient manner. This energy savings to oneself does mean one will tire less quickly from one’s effort if one does act as efficiently as possible. But that probably does not mean always attempting to make one’s efforts as easy as possible, because if one expends too little energy one will tire more rapidly when more expenditure is needed.
So it is with one’s thoughts and the communication of one’s thoughts. If communication becomes meaningfully sloppy, then both the meaning of what is conveyed to one and the meaning of what one attempts to convey become malnutritioned. Concepts therefore must be presented fully adjectified to explain themselves as a full course thought.
While most of us in America probably understand what one is conveying when one says I am feeling blue, the meaning of that statement is not the meaning of those words.
One can not be a color (“am blue”) or feel oneself a color (feel blue.) Of course some might one say we are colors and that we feel the color we are, that is actually false, because it implies a complete coloration of a person as singular. And yet my body, even in old age and deprived of a great deal of sunlight is not uniformly one color, not even discounting the obvious lip, hair and eye coloration. I have scars, some pinkish, some darkish. My hands are discolored from years of being calloused and smoking. My arms remain darker than my legs. The soles of my feet are not the same color as the dorsal surface of my foot, which as a matter has several differing colorations and my fingernails are lighter than my hands to a noticeable degree, while my toenails are noticeably darker than most of the dorsal surface. I have very dark (black) hair on my legs and very light hair(blonde) mixed with grey hair on my arms. The hair on my head is again blonde mixed with grey but I am largely bald on the right side of my head but if you brush the hair away on the left side the bare scalp is many shades lighter than the more exposed scalp on the right side, even though I generally attempt to comb the hair on the left over the right. As for the beard on my face when it grows out is again patched with very dark, very light, and probably a little grey.
I am not a color, nor is anyone, although our behavioral learning has often been projected to us as a methodology to define ourselves as colors. No person is a color, singular, but shades of colors that might be mixed across our bodily surfaces. But to declare anyone any color is easy, but quite empty of meaning meant only to entice the illusion of such categorizations as somehow meaningful.
There is a contemporary ideology that states that writing in a very simple style is somehow a better methodology to becoming understood. However studies have shown that there is much less mental activity within the brain when such types of writings are read. The brain spikes into increased activity with unusual phraseologies or unknown words.
However, I fear it might be true that reading is often preferred to be presented easily, just as we might prefer driving across the street to walking. But we learn much less under such reading that is presented as situationally easy. The more we are required to reflect the more efficient we become at discerning meaningful determinants.
Mental laziness is probably overall more harmful than physical lackadaisicalness, though neither should be a preferred goal for healthy comprehension.. Because studies also show mental awareness also spikes after physical exertion if our brains have not been stultified by too little mental stimulation.
Reading is not something our brain does but is something that the brain has the capacity to do if taught to do so. Because of that procedural necessity the brain can become either more or less stimulated by the reading, if it becomes too easy it requires very little in the manner of becoming mentally stimulated.
Thus what is easy is neither kinetically nor mentally efficient. We degenerate from lack of stimulation to our bodies or our brains. Depressive situations become ripened into cognitively obsessed mental depressions or our body becomes disabled from its evolutionary capacities. We thus become modified in our learning and our beliefs become informed by learning that meaningless words or phrases have meanings that can be widely comprehended .
Encased in the adipose that has surrounded the human intellectual, beliefs grow out of emotional disconnection that descends from the unreality of the classified personality.
We might term these as non-real or misinformed conceptions. In actuality they are emotional defense mechanisms retreating from the adipokine growth of the cancerous tissues that advance around the supported realities of determining valuations and are no more “unreal” than the determined valuations themselves.
But I word like to suggest what we are actually responding to is not meaningful words and phrases but recognized tautologies that we can easily identify as such, but have becomes so mentally trained to not concern ourselves that while they may be universally recognized terms as terms there can be no definitional expression of universality other than the response to the recognition that these are words we must desire. But the why of that desire is only because they are presented as terms of desirability but cannot be referenced as to any meaningfulness other than we desire freedom, we desire love, we desire choice (free (again) will), we desire ideas that have been presented to us as obtainable things; but in reality remain abstractions that are definitionless.
Well, matey, whatever prevailing physical infirmities thou may suffereth, thy mind remains an intellectual scythe.
Did not the Grim Reaper don such a tool?
Very interesting concepts, Ken