RE: What fills the gap if you don't believe in the contagion theory?
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Right. You really do made up your mind and heart. Thanks for the food for thought. I actually haven't spent much time thinking about it. But overall I can agree with you. You say some interesting and thoughtful things. Unfortunately, I don't have much to add.
I actually look skeptically at everything that the mainstream wants to impose as truth.
Interesting publication, best regards!
P.S. You wrote the Information War tag with "m".
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About what specifically?
I have touched many topics in this text. In particular, this one busies my mind. I put a comment in here, which I left somewhere else:
The question and also the threat that the vaccination disciples ask and express is therefore not uninteresting for self-reflection. These disciples attribute a "guilt" to "disease": Now not only their own "guilt", but also the "guilt of others".
To associate the question of guilt with illness therefore points to a way of life that is understood as shameful, that is described as light-footed and hedonistic, a kind of "after me, the deluge" attitude. You can see how smokers, drinkers and eaters are getting the jingle bells right now. Add to that those who actually still have sex, and we seem to be swinging back into an age of prudishness and self-mortification.
From my life experience, I know that it's the worse representatives who often switch to the fanatical, who have enjoyed themselves particularly often and gladly, or who have had a particularly "great time" and afterwards, after a binge, after an eating binge and giving themselves up and letting themselves fall into a fun society, feel particularly guilty. What they did before, they demonised all the more afterwards. In this context, guilt and shame are the poison that seeks to suppress the living and therefore expresses itself all the more strongly in (condemned) excess.
The Corona disciples practise hypocritical ruthlessness, which becomes obvious by the fact that they do not want to renounce the pleasures of life under any circumstances, because they have still tasted too little of them. Hence the statement that one gets vaccinated in order to be able to travel again. I think people also want it in order to be able to drink, smoke and eat excessively in company again without ever admitting to the greed for it.
Personally, I have nothing against drinking, eating, smoking.
Right. You always touch on many topics in your writings, and that's why they tend to be thought provoking. I was referring specifically to the contagion theory.
The way I see it, I think people who find themselves caught in that unhealthy swing of opposite extremes carry with them a contradiction between who they are consciously trying to be, and what they "need" to be on an unconscious level. These excesses can be a form of balance. If someone does not have a very pleasurable life, he will look for excessive pleasures.
But I don't think guilt and shame are necessarily a bad thing, they are necessary to some degree, just not in such an excessive way.
To me, you have put that well and to the point. It is what I meant. However, I see it as a failed attempt at balance because it is in a negative field of tension. So only two ends are addressed. If one expands the field, perhaps the following would result.
"Pleasure" or "feeling pleasure" is first of all a human peculiarity. If I exaggerate this pleasure, I find myself back on the underlying point of frivolity or "decadence".
But what could be the sister quality of joy/pleasure?
One could cite "seriousness" or "profundity" here. So that there is a positive field here between these two sensations: The lightness on the one hand, the profundity on the other. Now, if you overdo it with seriousness, if you overstretch the arc of such seriousness, you end up at the point of humourlessness, a joylessness. This is the negative sister quality of decadence/frivolity.
Who has not experienced a phase in which one was caught between these two negative qualities? It is difficult and extremely exhausting to live between humourlessness and frivolity. Decadence has a certain tiring boredom, in which there is no longer any real joy in the good and the beautiful and the true, because there is too much of it. Pleasure falls by the wayside.
That is why I treat it as a faulty balance, because it moves in an unpleasant field of tension from which one can only get out if one learns to find the way back between humor and profundity.
Agree.
hmmm... I don't agree with that in terms of my definition.
I do not equate guilt and shame with responsibility, if that was what you meant?
Let me explain myself:
Rather, a feeling of guilt for me is the rejection of seeking answers. Those who say "I am to blame for someone else being miserable" are bypassing responsibility (because in fact, following this logic, they must also blame others for being miserable themselves). For if I take it literally that feeling responsible means recognising one's own limits, the limits of what I attribute to myself and my actions and omissions, it tends to lead me to recognise the limitation to which I am inevitably subject. Feeling guilty in this respect is a weakness of character, an over-emphasis on one's own importance.
Whoever says, "I am to blame for the fact that you have become ill, an alcoholic, a drug addict, poor or even ill with a "virus", is thereby artificially overstating oneself. Such an exaggeration of what one blames oneself for can lead to the transfer of the personal experience of an inadequacy from those directly affected to "the many". Ergo, to the large communities, ergo to the whole world.
For those who are trapped in guilt, an acquittal will be of no use if they do not set out to free themselves from this guilt.
I prefer to leave the term "guilt" in its negatively perceived meaning and contrast it with the positive term "responsibility". From my personal perception, I experience people driven by feelings of guilt as being overly interested in fulfilling their duties, in exhausting themselves mentally as well as physically, in order to reduce this guilt that they believe they have to work off. The damage done by such personalities is difficult to measure, but it is perceptible. From this feeds the current do-gooderism, an over-fulfilment of a moral inferiority complex.
However, insofar as guilt and shame are accepted as effective correctors between people in the field of this energy, one could assume that these feelings lead to the improvement of human relationships. Someone who believes in the necessary moral judgement established by guilt may accept this judgement as just. And he may take those who do not believe such as stupid, weak and soft.
... But if we observe that in the history of the past and the present, guilt has never really been admitted by the perpetrator of an evil deed, and especially in the field of politics, these admissions of guilt do not take place; rather, people seem to be aware of no guilt at all, and if they are, then the usual mechanisms of suppression and distraction are at work. If someone is then convicted, he only admits his guilt under the duress of a public condemnation. But here the dimension and the strength of the denial of responsibility becomes apparent.
In this energetic field of circulating irresponsibility, there are the players who can no longer be addressed because they keep their names and addresses secret. At the end of an era of extreme suffering, no one wants to have been the one who denied responsibility. History then covers up such things and the reappraisal of what happened gets lost in it. Until the next event.
... I could say a lot more but I leave it here.
I would appreciate your view on this.
Yes, I agree with virtually everything you have said, however, I can't help but think that when a person hurts another person whom that person did not mean to hurt, then he or she will feel guilt and the feeling of guilt will not be negative in that particular case. Maybe I am overlooking something.
Quite true.
I agree that guilt and responsibility are not the same thing. Many times we have to take responsibility even for things for which we are not to blame.
:) I truly appreciate your loquacity and talkativeness.
argh...thank you. I cannot correct the tags through the editor - doesn't work.
@informationwar :)