"The human condition encompasses the totality of the experience of being human and living human lives. As finite and mortal entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. However, understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by the term "human condition" is itself a philosophical problem.
The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror, humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence. Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are aware of their own mortality. Only humans are known to ask themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent: What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human condition in this sense of the term."
Thanks Wiki.
My thoughts ... As humans, we are mortal and finite. We contemplate life and try to achieve much in order to compensate desire. There is much to say about desire, but I will try to keep it short. For now it is to be said, desire both manifests greatness and depravity. For without the desire of knowledge, the world as we know it would not exist as it is, would it? We would not strive to know more than our instincts, and thus we would not evolve. However, in a modern society desire is most undesirable. Although it can still push toward evolutionary progress, it tends to warp the mind and cause emotional mutation.
That being said, a simple example would be the mainstream media's portrayal of women: makeup baring, sexy hair, 'healthy' (but usually underweight) and an almost androgynous body type (what happened to the adoration of curves and shapely women? Real lover and mother figures!) Generally, a hyperfeminine type is glamourized, a woman who is shameless and powerful (and thus can take all her clothes off, or most of them if she desires, because we live in a feminist, equal-rights age [BS]) and not be considered a prostitute, because she is independent (also BS). Okay so what does this have to do with desire? Well first off, older generations generally know better than to believe this model of women that is portrayed. So that's fine, we aren't all stupid and conditioned. However the problem lies in younger generations. I mean the 6-13 year old who watches this crap and doesn't have parents who give a big enough damn to censor what their children see.
If there are not responsible parents to nurture their children and explain to them that it is okay to be who you are, this is what happens: little girls who haven't even begun to develop, already see an unhealthy image of what it is to be a 'woman.' They believe in the atypical stereotype. Before they have reached 8th grade there is already a disgusting expectation. Kids stop eating dinners, a little 10 year old becomes bulimic. Think it isn't real?
"Children are reported to suffer from bulimia at ever younger ages. The average age of onset has recently dropped from 13 - 17 to ages 9 - 12. As girls reach puberty at ever younger ages, they find themselves growing larger at precisely the time when they are most aware of society's prescription for them to be thin. Dieting, rather than healthy eating, becomes a way of life for children in search of thinness. Dieting damages healthful metabolic processes and establishes unhealthy eating habits that bring young people into their adult years with a propensity for disordered eating and obesity."
-http://www.empoweredparents.com/1eatingdisorders/bulimia.htm
Also, check this out. Partially due to genetic engineering (which I will get into at a later time) and the growth hormones that were a result of such.
Nine year old girl gives birth to healthy baby in China:
-http://asianfanatics.net/forum/topic/711935-9-year-old-girl-gives-birth-to-healthy-child-in-china/
So I think the example is clear. Desire manifests insanity, in a modern society. UNLESS it is coupled with discipline. Desire can be healthy. For example, to see beauty and realize that yes, to be beautiful inside and out it requires work. This is where discipline comes into play. You desire that fit lean body? Well eat right and get physical! It's really important for parents to instill these values in their children from a young age. Otherwise, I'm not sure what society will look like in thirty years. A terrible 'democracy,' with the clever controlling the mindless to an even greater extent than now. Scary.
So what do we think of desire? It can push us to pursue absurd indulgences in order to achieve something that is always tangible but not always attainable -- sex, physical eloquence, sycophancy, political hierarchy, money ... Of course, the list goes on... So is it good? Bad? Ugly?
We all know the good side of desire, wanting that job and doing what you need to do within moral boundaries in order to obtain it. Wanting that body and so one takes healthy steps in order to obtain it.
But man, it gets ugly.
So I'll leave it there for now. I've ranted enough, for now.
I think the link between desire and degradation is clear. Of course I have mentioned many things in this post that will be mentioned again, as all the topics are entangled.
*Also I want it to be noted, a lack of cultural pride aides greatly in these warped perceptions. Culture needs to be embraced and upheld. Each to his own, I do not want to see individual belief systems merged into a monoculture. I do not want to see us all become hybridized versions of each other. Fucking disgusting. A topic for another time*
Only Death is Real.
The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror, humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence. Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are aware of their own mortality. Only humans are known to ask themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent: What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human condition in this sense of the term."
Thanks Wiki.
My thoughts ... As humans, we are mortal and finite. We contemplate life and try to achieve much in order to compensate desire. There is much to say about desire, but I will try to keep it short. For now it is to be said, desire both manifests greatness and depravity. For without the desire of knowledge, the world as we know it would not exist as it is, would it? We would not strive to know more than our instincts, and thus we would not evolve. However, in a modern society desire is most undesirable. Although it can still push toward evolutionary progress, it tends to warp the mind and cause emotional mutation.
That being said, a simple example would be the mainstream media's portrayal of women: makeup baring, sexy hair, 'healthy' (but usually underweight) and an almost androgynous body type (what happened to the adoration of curves and shapely women? Real lover and mother figures!) Generally, a hyperfeminine type is glamourized, a woman who is shameless and powerful (and thus can take all her clothes off, or most of them if she desires, because we live in a feminist, equal-rights age [BS]) and not be considered a prostitute, because she is independent (also BS). Okay so what does this have to do with desire? Well first off, older generations generally know better than to believe this model of women that is portrayed. So that's fine, we aren't all stupid and conditioned. However the problem lies in younger generations. I mean the 6-13 year old who watches this crap and doesn't have parents who give a big enough damn to censor what their children see.
If there are not responsible parents to nurture their children and explain to them that it is okay to be who you are, this is what happens: little girls who haven't even begun to develop, already see an unhealthy image of what it is to be a 'woman.' They believe in the atypical stereotype. Before they have reached 8th grade there is already a disgusting expectation. Kids stop eating dinners, a little 10 year old becomes bulimic. Think it isn't real?
"Children are reported to suffer from bulimia at ever younger ages. The average age of onset has recently dropped from 13 - 17 to ages 9 - 12. As girls reach puberty at ever younger ages, they find themselves growing larger at precisely the time when they are most aware of society's prescription for them to be thin. Dieting, rather than healthy eating, becomes a way of life for children in search of thinness. Dieting damages healthful metabolic processes and establishes unhealthy eating habits that bring young people into their adult years with a propensity for disordered eating and obesity."
-http://www.empoweredparents.com/1eatingdisorders/bulimia.htm
Also, check this out. Partially due to genetic engineering (which I will get into at a later time) and the growth hormones that were a result of such.
Nine year old girl gives birth to healthy baby in China:
-http://asianfanatics.net/forum/topic/711935-9-year-old-girl-gives-birth-to-healthy-child-in-china/
So I think the example is clear. Desire manifests insanity, in a modern society. UNLESS it is coupled with discipline. Desire can be healthy. For example, to see beauty and realize that yes, to be beautiful inside and out it requires work. This is where discipline comes into play. You desire that fit lean body? Well eat right and get physical! It's really important for parents to instill these values in their children from a young age. Otherwise, I'm not sure what society will look like in thirty years. A terrible 'democracy,' with the clever controlling the mindless to an even greater extent than now. Scary.
So what do we think of desire? It can push us to pursue absurd indulgences in order to achieve something that is always tangible but not always attainable -- sex, physical eloquence, sycophancy, political hierarchy, money ... Of course, the list goes on... So is it good? Bad? Ugly?
We all know the good side of desire, wanting that job and doing what you need to do within moral boundaries in order to obtain it. Wanting that body and so one takes healthy steps in order to obtain it.
But man, it gets ugly.
So I'll leave it there for now. I've ranted enough, for now.
I think the link between desire and degradation is clear. Of course I have mentioned many things in this post that will be mentioned again, as all the topics are entangled.
*Also I want it to be noted, a lack of cultural pride aides greatly in these warped perceptions. Culture needs to be embraced and upheld. Each to his own, I do not want to see individual belief systems merged into a monoculture. I do not want to see us all become hybridized versions of each other. Fucking disgusting. A topic for another time*
Only Death is Real.
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