Individuals tend to have their own haters. The majority of humans subscribe to herd-mentality Tribalism...and thusly manifest xenophobia towards anyone perceived as "different" from them. Such as the aforementioned Individual. The tribal/herd psychology demands that humans "prove" themselves on some imaginary hierarchical ladder- and they are constantly backstabbing, lying and struggling for better "status" on that ladder. Said "status" is the entire reason for their life and the whole point of their existence...it means everything to them. They worship authority/status/power and will do anything to obtain it for themselves. In their minds, "strength" is objectified in whoever the loudest bully is, whoever can beat their chest the hardest- or whoever has the most perceived power. They will only set aside their eternal competition and unite long enough to attack one of the objects of their xenophobic fear. Then it's right back to backstabbing, trying to fuck each others' wives and hurling their own shit at whoever makes them feel insecure. The individual will always be the enemy of the pack/herd/tribalist. They will hunt him when they feel confident in success and shriek ridicule from a distance (with the "tribe") when they're uncertain. Think of Chimpanzee behavior- it's pretty much the same. When truly threatened, they will look to a "protector" to take care of them rather than utilize their own resources to solve the problem themselves. Like children, most see their own safety and well-being as someone else's responsibility. They divide themselves into castes- "warriors," "smart people," "enforcers," etc- whereas the Individual must by necessity take responsibility for his own safety and welfare. He must serve all necessary roles, at least as efficiently as he can.
Individuals tend to be solitary for this reason: It is very difficult to truly trust and bond with other humans once you understand how primitive and pathetic human nature is. It's easier to just go it alone and avoid the drama. An alternative to this is to "bond from a distance" with like-minded individuals...perhaps (conditionally) uniting under the banner of a particular cause or having each others' backs without expecting anything in return. Individuals tend to have a small circle of true "friends" and sometimes years may pass before they see each other again.
Thanks Brother,
You raise some very interesting questions- and I'm not entirely sure of the answer, myself. What I'm about to type may sound irrelevant to the discussion, but I believe it is key to understanding the nature of the problem. Please bear with me:
We humans are fragile creatures. Think about our evolution and survival within a harsh, primitive world full of apex predators like saber-toothed tigers. Consider how vulnerable newborn humans are when compared to many newborn animals- we are utterly helpless, when other species are already mobile and sometimes already capable of self-defense. Also consider how vulnerable a human mother is (for a long time) after giving birth. We did not evolve to what we are today because of "strong independent single mothers" and/or children being raised by complete strangers (like teachers, Government workers, etc.) The only reason we survived and became the dominant species on Earth was due to the strength of the human family arrangement. Blood Relatives formed the earliest tribes (fathers/mothers/aunts/uncles/grandparents.) They enjoyed distance from the scant other tribes and tons of privacy to hunt/survive/reproduce. It is most likely that these little tribes stuck together and protected each other no matter what challenges they faced. We're talking about untold hundreds of thousands of years of evolution ingraining this survival strategy- and the instinctive human "need" for a family that was created by it. We have not out-evolved those needs...nor have we created a better "system" to replace the Nuclear Family Structure. But we live in the day and age where the Nuclear Family Structure has been all but disassembled by Liberal Cultural Indoctrination, pop-culture brainwashing and rampant sexual immorality. It's hard for humans to survive without the feeling of "belonging" to some kind of family- so most humans replace their biological family with a circle of acquaintances that they believe is loyal to them. Oftentimes though, said acquaintances have no biological or familial loyalty to them. Many also use Authority and Government to replace their "father figure" and they crave the demands/discipline/protection that they believe it provides.
So here we have a huge population of individuals who are using "friendship" to replace "family." Their "status" within this artificial family is everything to them. A great deal of posturing and ritualistic aggression are what they use to establish said hierarchy. Oddly enough, they believe that no "individual" of their chosen tribe has the right to claim ownership of anything biologically important. So, for example, it's not a big deal when their significant other sleeps with someone else. Here we have sabotaged the most basic human instinct- the drive to reproduce and raise one's own children. We have assigned this natural drive of familial loyalty to a faceless mass of backstabbing and socially hostile humans. By extension, this further destroys the basic instinctive "need" for a biological family and to see one's own bloodline survive/continue/prosper. So we have now fully replaced "family" with "friends" and marginalized the social structure that acted as a vehicle to bring us from fighting saber-toothed tigers to creating quantum physics. In turn, this creates an artificial structure wherein the most impulsive and psychopathic individuals generally find themselves "on top."
Basically, I just used a lot of words to say that modern human behavioral psychology is fucked. Our base and most powerful instincts have been utterly corrupted and perverted to function within an unnatural role. People see others who are ideologically different from them as competition to their (already fiercely competitive) "family" and seek to either conquer them or drive them away. They are jealous in behalf of (and protective of) an imaginary non-biological hierarchical structure that subverts natural instinct and extremely powerful biological forces. Their loyalty lies with an extremely vague and amorphous group of freakish ideological clones- and to them...that's the most important thing in the world. It's similar to an insect "hive mind" where certain individuals are born to die as workers and others are born to reproduce and benefit from their work. And just like the insect hive mind, the ideological "workers" will figuratively "fight to the death" in defense of their hive.
In short, we "individuals" are as different to them as day is from night. That's why they find us truly bewildering ("different") and hate our guts. I'm not sure whether we can help them to see things our way or not. Maybe some, on a case-by-case basis. But I am absolutely sure that there is a small group of Elites who benefit the most from their collective mental illness.
I wish I could have studied philosophy and literature under Voltaire. I'd be his plato to his socrates. His mind and ideals fascinate me and more than resonate.
Voltaire was a huge advocate for reason. You could say he believed intelligence alone was the ability to question and reason. Though he was deist, he did not prescribe to mainstream religion due to its manipulation. He belive church and state should remain separate due to the Vatican's dominance in world governments even in France's at the time. This is not to say he didn't belive the individual had the right to religion or Express itz but it has no ground in controlling masses let alone governments. He believed the meaning to life is to question oneself and find oneself and also to be happy. He heavily advocated individuals ability to voice their opinion and believed that if any citizen has reason to hate/distrust or bring up concern to the state or church regardless of magnitude of matter they must hear hear that individual out. He was also prisoned for a year for mocking the French government. Also like socrates he believed the pinnacle of intellect is to admit to know nothing the more you are educated. "Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers" - Voltaire
Is there some sense of these people being Iconoclasts in some regard?
At least in the sense for questioning the dogma of the day.
Another characteristic would be unafraid to speak what they believed the truth to be. Sometimes Kanye fits that category.
Another characteristic would be a freethinker.
The freethought movement of like the 1800s was kind of cool. Rejecting a lot of dogmatic religious thought (which had become more dogmatic at that time, not that religious thought is always bad) and determining some of their own. Robert G Ingersoll from that era had a quote, "I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
Individuals tend to have their own haters. The majority of humans subscribe to herd-mentality Tribalism...and thusly manifest xenophobia towards anyone perceived as "different" from them. Such as the aforementioned Individual. The tribal/herd psychology demands that humans "prove" themselves on some imaginary hierarchical ladder- and they are constantly backstabbing, lying and struggling for better "status" on that ladder. Said "status" is the entire reason for their life and the whole point of their existence...it means everything to them. They worship authority/status/power and will do anything to obtain it for themselves. In their minds, "strength" is objectified in whoever the loudest bully is, whoever can beat their chest the hardest- or whoever has the most perceived power. They will only set aside their eternal competition and unite long enough to attack one of the objects of their xenophobic fear. Then it's right back to backstabbing, trying to fuck each others' wives and hurling their own shit at whoever makes them feel insecure. The individual will always be the enemy of the pack/herd/tribalist. They will hunt him when they feel confident in success and shriek ridicule from a distance (with the "tribe") when they're uncertain. Think of Chimpanzee behavior- it's pretty much the same. When truly threatened, they will look to a "protector" to take care of them rather than utilize their own resources to solve the problem themselves. Like children, most see their own safety and well-being as someone else's responsibility. They divide themselves into castes- "warriors," "smart people," "enforcers," etc- whereas the Individual must by necessity take responsibility for his own safety and welfare. He must serve all necessary roles, at least as efficiently as he can.
Individuals tend to be solitary for this reason: It is very difficult to truly trust and bond with other humans once you understand how primitive and pathetic human nature is. It's easier to just go it alone and avoid the drama. An alternative to this is to "bond from a distance" with like-minded individuals...perhaps (conditionally) uniting under the banner of a particular cause or having each others' backs without expecting anything in return. Individuals tend to have a small circle of true "friends" and sometimes years may pass before they see each other again.
Thanks Brother, You raise some very interesting questions- and I'm not entirely sure of the answer, myself. What I'm about to type may sound irrelevant to the discussion, but I believe it is key to understanding the nature of the problem. Please bear with me:
We humans are fragile creatures. Think about our evolution and survival within a harsh, primitive world full of apex predators like saber-toothed tigers. Consider how vulnerable newborn humans are when compared to many newborn animals- we are utterly helpless, when other species are already mobile and sometimes already capable of self-defense. Also consider how vulnerable a human mother is (for a long time) after giving birth. We did not evolve to what we are today because of "strong independent single mothers" and/or children being raised by complete strangers (like teachers, Government workers, etc.) The only reason we survived and became the dominant species on Earth was due to the strength of the human family arrangement. Blood Relatives formed the earliest tribes (fathers/mothers/aunts/uncles/grandparents.) They enjoyed distance from the scant other tribes and tons of privacy to hunt/survive/reproduce. It is most likely that these little tribes stuck together and protected each other no matter what challenges they faced. We're talking about untold hundreds of thousands of years of evolution ingraining this survival strategy- and the instinctive human "need" for a family that was created by it. We have not out-evolved those needs...nor have we created a better "system" to replace the Nuclear Family Structure. But we live in the day and age where the Nuclear Family Structure has been all but disassembled by Liberal Cultural Indoctrination, pop-culture brainwashing and rampant sexual immorality. It's hard for humans to survive without the feeling of "belonging" to some kind of family- so most humans replace their biological family with a circle of acquaintances that they believe is loyal to them. Oftentimes though, said acquaintances have no biological or familial loyalty to them. Many also use Authority and Government to replace their "father figure" and they crave the demands/discipline/protection that they believe it provides.
So here we have a huge population of individuals who are using "friendship" to replace "family." Their "status" within this artificial family is everything to them. A great deal of posturing and ritualistic aggression are what they use to establish said hierarchy. Oddly enough, they believe that no "individual" of their chosen tribe has the right to claim ownership of anything biologically important. So, for example, it's not a big deal when their significant other sleeps with someone else. Here we have sabotaged the most basic human instinct- the drive to reproduce and raise one's own children. We have assigned this natural drive of familial loyalty to a faceless mass of backstabbing and socially hostile humans. By extension, this further destroys the basic instinctive "need" for a biological family and to see one's own bloodline survive/continue/prosper. So we have now fully replaced "family" with "friends" and marginalized the social structure that acted as a vehicle to bring us from fighting saber-toothed tigers to creating quantum physics. In turn, this creates an artificial structure wherein the most impulsive and psychopathic individuals generally find themselves "on top."
Basically, I just used a lot of words to say that modern human behavioral psychology is fucked. Our base and most powerful instincts have been utterly corrupted and perverted to function within an unnatural role. People see others who are ideologically different from them as competition to their (already fiercely competitive) "family" and seek to either conquer them or drive them away. They are jealous in behalf of (and protective of) an imaginary non-biological hierarchical structure that subverts natural instinct and extremely powerful biological forces. Their loyalty lies with an extremely vague and amorphous group of freakish ideological clones- and to them...that's the most important thing in the world. It's similar to an insect "hive mind" where certain individuals are born to die as workers and others are born to reproduce and benefit from their work. And just like the insect hive mind, the ideological "workers" will figuratively "fight to the death" in defense of their hive.
In short, we "individuals" are as different to them as day is from night. That's why they find us truly bewildering ("different") and hate our guts. I'm not sure whether we can help them to see things our way or not. Maybe some, on a case-by-case basis. But I am absolutely sure that there is a small group of Elites who benefit the most from their collective mental illness.
He is perfect for this
I wish I could have studied philosophy and literature under Voltaire. I'd be his plato to his socrates. His mind and ideals fascinate me and more than resonate.
Voltaire was a huge advocate for reason. You could say he believed intelligence alone was the ability to question and reason. Though he was deist, he did not prescribe to mainstream religion due to its manipulation. He belive church and state should remain separate due to the Vatican's dominance in world governments even in France's at the time. This is not to say he didn't belive the individual had the right to religion or Express itz but it has no ground in controlling masses let alone governments. He believed the meaning to life is to question oneself and find oneself and also to be happy. He heavily advocated individuals ability to voice their opinion and believed that if any citizen has reason to hate/distrust or bring up concern to the state or church regardless of magnitude of matter they must hear hear that individual out. He was also prisoned for a year for mocking the French government. Also like socrates he believed the pinnacle of intellect is to admit to know nothing the more you are educated. "Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers" - Voltaire
"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire
Yes, the simple thought of someone pushing the boundaries of though or reason is ungodly to someone who hardly can imagine questioning oneself
Is there some sense of these people being Iconoclasts in some regard?
At least in the sense for questioning the dogma of the day.
Another characteristic would be unafraid to speak what they believed the truth to be. Sometimes Kanye fits that category. Another characteristic would be a freethinker.
The freethought movement of like the 1800s was kind of cool. Rejecting a lot of dogmatic religious thought (which had become more dogmatic at that time, not that religious thought is always bad) and determining some of their own. Robert G Ingersoll from that era had a quote, "I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
Religion is MIND CONTROL.
Anything that promotes DEITY WORSHIP or belief in a HIGHER BEING creates subjugation and enslavement.
The time has come to end looking to outside sources for enlightenment.
The Eternal Creator kneels to no one. He/She self directs their own reality as a Limitless Eternal Creator.
This is really interesting, please post more