Thursday, April 13, 2006

Boredom and lack of wisdom

“[In contemporary cultures] Our pathology consists in our dedication to abstractions, to our collectivism, pseudo-individualism, and lack of institutional means for the expression and transcendence of human ambivalence…Our illness springs from the very center of civilization, not from too much knowledge, but from too little wisdom…”. (Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive, taken from Deep Ecology, pgs 20-21)
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  1. AnonymousApril 13, 2006 at 8:13 PM

    I like the philosophy of this.

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  2. AnonymousApril 17, 2006 at 12:46 PM

    It is interesting how Stanley Diamond describes the human associated problems (boredom, stagnation) of the dominanat worldview as an "illness". We have made ourselves sick from a life filled with distractions.

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