Infected Intellects

In sociology there is much to be said for how the social environment for which a person is disposed shapes their character and so they say that society makes people what they are but what needs to be realized is that society is made up of individuals and so it becomes a which came first the chicken or the egg scenario. The individual is shaped in the social sense by society for the most part but the self-actualizing person has come to the realization that they as a single entity have the power to decide who or what they are to be and so the constraints of society fall away and they are free to design themselves. Becoming educated of this fact is the first step to removing yourself from the chains of enculturation. It is the self-actualizing person who has the question awakened within them and desires to know and understand what they are and what they can be and bridge the gap between what they are and what they wish to become. You have the power to overcome the circumstances of your life! I thought it was interesting recently while watching a documentary hosted by Alan Alda in his search for the Human Spark; the thing which makes us different from other animals and makes us uniquely human, when an anthropologist explained to him that apes can mentally manage relationships to about fifty individuals and humans could manage about one-hundred-fifty and the point was that it is because the brain of the human is three times the size of the ape’s brain. This point got me to thinking about how if my brain can manage shallow relationships with about one-hundred-fifty people then what would it be like if I had a lot fewer friends to focus all that brain power on. If I only have fifteen friends then it seems logical that I could afford to know them all ten times better than I could know one-hundred-fifty. How much deeper and more meaningful would those relationships be? person. It is as if they are forced by the rule of society to restrain who they truly are for the sake of society. They must lessen their spontaneity to an extent that some of their potentials are not actualized; it seems to be a type of self-contradiction and it probably is. Like I said the self-actualizing person isn’t perfect. This is the disorder of my condition and this book is to me a part of the solution. It is my quest for people like me with whom I may associate to relieve me of this burden. For the average person the world is a dangerous place and is defined by two types of people those he can dominate and those who can dominate him, but the satisfied person can take his needs for granted and devote himself to a higher ideal and greater good. Dichotomies are destroyed when what seems to be contrast is no longer so. When my will and God’s will are the same then I can trust my impulses to do good and right. It is no longer thoughtful or arduous, but natural and pleasing to me. I am unselfish out of selfishness and my duty/work is my pleasure and brings me great joy; I will love God and do as I will.