It Seems Certain That the Bulk of Humanity Lives in a Myopic State of Being
“To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.”
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Please excuse today’s change of pace, my drifting away from the excrement called ‘news, and ‘reporting’ that consumes our lives every day, and stepping into the philosophical realm in order to hopefully mellow the mood for just a few minutes in an attempt to expand horizons. I know it is useful for me, and hope some may learn to fly into the unknown instead of crawling into a future dystopia.
After so many years of wonder, travel, research, study, and constant observation, I have come to the conclusion that humanity in general, lives and breathes in a state of isolated perception so acute, as to go through life in near blindness to reality. They have eyes but they do not see. This is akin to a myopic state of being so intense as to block out everything other than the most infinitesimal minutia necessary in order to survive without the use of critical thought; especially thinking that would encompass the seeking of true wisdom that could result in a prolonged or far-reaching awareness. This could be described as a lack of individual consciousness. This mindset is not just dependent on ignorance or stupidity, even though it is most definitely enhanced by it, but since this attitude is so prevalent among the many, it must be an inherent trait, or at least has been planted in the psyche of the masses since birth.
This perspective held by the great unwashed, as well as many others who might attempt
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