curb your appetite (a lover of wine is not a wino)

paradoxically as more and more aspect of life is turned into a spectacle or mere decoration the less we seem to care about it

'There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. The majority take the line of least resistance...'
-A Korzybski

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[pangeaprogress]

"save us from thinking" great statement by Korzybski...it seems the constructs of society are useful to either distract or exhaust the person into mind numbness...something that benefits the status quo

[almafarag]

@pangeaprogress indeed, though the fact that it is (the constructs of) society that endows the 'individual' with the capacity to reflect, to care and to grow a self in the first place, is also relevant, I guess the right thing to do is to cultivate these capacities and to nurture a measured engagement, thanks for watching by the way

[2bsirius]

As usually great video...

We refuse to see the cycle of which we are a part. I get up early in the morning here, and so I listen to the farm show. This morning there was a report about how meat imported to the UK from New Zealand is slaughtered using halal slaughter. Halal slaughter causes unspeakably pain to animals. I would wager that those who mindlessly throw New Zealand meat into their trolley don't know [or care?] about the suffering their taste for cheap, plentiful meat causes.

[almafarag]

@2bsirius 'seeing only part of the whole cycle' is a cogent way to put it, many thanks

[silverfoxcondor46]

You make me think that we should justify our life's activities to ourselves...not to allow the current trends to make use of us.

The trains of thought you portray here are very good.

[blaclive]

what is significant about those things that go through the formality of "actually happening"?

our attentive mindfulness of the unnoticed happens to be significant. without our ignorance we would be oblivious to the world. and our capacity to care, is our ability to blinker our perception so that certain phenomena we find tasteful may be brought to significance. is it not that, what we think we "see", is our directed gaze upon the unknown. enjoying the nuances of your videos as always mark.

[fancynot]

the lover of wine .... in some interesting thoughts to share for each one of us *

[pangeaprogress]

@almafarag thanks for sharing, yes you are right to be specific some activities after all human beings are watered by culture

[TWITfromURANUS]

"taking things for granted is a form of ignorance"

I could not agree more. Good video. Thanks.

[Barklord]

I'm troubled by the tremendous cost that we will pay for our gluttony, at least here in the states. I realize that everything has a price but it's so hard to accept the glossy twisted packaging of important news that shields people from the honest facts of life. Most people don't even want to consider these as topics of conversation whether we agree or disagree.

[sivvyx01]

Insightful.