Monday 30 September 2013

Some new sketches...it's been too long...Sketch 10

So the course is progressing well........but so  many ideas arriving from the reading and lectures that are happening........will be posting the highlights of my sketching through this week.......

hope they are of some use....... :D

So here's one looking into our current psychological cocktail......(sketch 10 of 54)

HYPOTHESES:

Egocentric (self interest/desire fuelled), Materialistic, superficial, patterns of Humanitarian behaviour is a result of learned (conditioned/socialized) patterns of thinking.......it is not innate....

CO-existing, peaceful conditions can be created (Energically constructed) through careful choices and desireless decision making. (Self Control?)

The products (output) of our existence......war, terror, fear are the result of our perceptual methods of reception (input), our appraisal methods (Lazarus & Folkman, 1974).

Conditoned psychological cocktail patterns = hobbes, machiavelli, hegel, marx

Externalisation -

Relinquishing/giving away self control/self responsibility/power over self........product of democracy  which is a dysfunctional means of relation.....? 
Or does it encourage placing faith and trust in others.......? See Sketch 39

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan ----> States that Human Aggression cannot be controlled individually.......... (no)
He also states that desire (wanting an outcome) motivates all human action.......(yes)
Argument: can we not learn to control our desires.....?

This also contradicts machiavelli's notion that we are in control of nature, our own progress and our future...........?

How responsible should we be with Self control?

(Also see - Seville Statement of Violence)

LINK TO SKETCH 23 social obs -- > People and Boxes..........and sketch 2 relaity construction & sketch 3 identity construction.........also link to social obs note 17.........

Also link sketch 38: survival instinct - evolution and self interest
 


Competition.......

when did it start.....?

Resources, food, survival......but why is it still happening?

Means of production have become very efficient now so that we need not compete......?

We are evolving past the notions of Machiavelli and the necessarily innovative and spirited style of conflict generating existence.
Our needs have changed, our methods and means psychologically have not......


A distinct lack in evolution psychologically......? Not enough ACCULTURATION

Because of psychological malnourishment caused by materialistic and superficial living patterns....

Perfection.....

Unbalanced rate of evolution has emerged from the pursuit of the myth that is perfection.....

Desire has been fuelled by Marxist & Hegelian ideals....causing an imbalance in societal interactions (inequitable exchange).....and is burning us to the ground........

Machiavelli also encouraged an innovative and energetic style of being..........citing war as anecessarycondition for progress
is there a lack of reflection on our methods of interaction, decision making and habitus formation ......?


at what rate should we be progressing? should it not be harmonious in method and sustainable in nature?

Motivations......

Material profiteering......

Marxist ideals..... "Material objects moving history not ideas"......

- Clashing of opposing forces (Neccessary - Hegel).....according to hegel..... (making War necessary?)

could this have catalysed our disregard toward nature and our surroundings........?

The ideal of progress as the sole aim of politics and civilization (Machiavelli) rather than balance and harmony.


Resulting in EXTERNALISED EXISTANCE "MATERIALISTIC" n nature.... A COLLECTIVE DISTORTION.............fuelling a perceived necessity for unregulated dynamics of competition and opposition.........

Constant Outflow of energy........which is HEURISTICALLY tarnished because of the lack of inward attention (SELF RESPONSIBILITY/reflection).....

No inward flow.....

Energic Imbalance.........

Unatural state of being - we are in control of our own future, we control nature and our own progress........

This results in a poisonous cocktail being belched out of humanity collectively.........
and constructs a constant battle fought with an illusory materialistic enemy
(the projection of our unconscious selves)