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Tags: Philosophy
Much of what I have been saying intimates that much of what ails mankind is the result of the limitations put upon him by his civilization by way of cultural inculcation. The question we have to ask ourselves is which should come first, man or his society? This is a difficult, maybe even impossible, question to answer. In fact, even initiating such a contemplation is a difficult endeavor, for where are we to begin? Humans are egocentric by nature, and this is expressed in our want of freedom and independence. On the other hand, we are wickedly social and are driven to seek the company, or should I say the attention, of others. But if we are to accept that there is an unacceptable constraint on human nature by cultural inculcation then we must come to a conclusion as to which agency we should make divine, individuality or nationality. In part, this decision must be made after a painfully pragmatic take on the issue- is man even able to glory over the individual while forcing society to take a back seat. Would such an endeavor lead to social chaos? If man is to truly face up to the social ills that are the champions of discontent then this discussion must be somehow come to fruition and thereby finds its way into the social limelight of intelligentsia today.
Genruk
Tags: Civilization, cultural inculcation, Discontent, Human Nature, Perception, Philosophy, Social, Truth
When a casual “How are you doing” is offered, and the reply is “OK,” what are the implications? Most likely the implications intimate that the individual’s life is currently nowhere near optimal and they are likely unhappy. Let’s examine an example from. We’ll call her Eve. Eve says she is OK. But I know the scoop. Eve is an alcoholic. Eve is cheating on her husband. Eve has a socially disreputably disease that is compounded by her drinking. AND, Eve is driving without a license. So when Eve says that she is OK, she is really miserable.
Though Eve’s problems are of her own making, there is another element that of Eve’s predicament that is constipating any and all effort to remedy her situation. She has come to appreciate the unstated sympathy that her friends and acquaintances impart upon her and has manifested into her own private perpetual pity party. She is addicted to sympathy. Eve’s problems are further compounded in that she likely has a psychological disorder that will impede any serious efforts to better her situation.
The problem is that “Eve” symbolic is our culture. The West, racing towards an age of decadence, emanates the radiation of the pity party upon all of its citizens as a sort of heroin to dampen the pain. Real life TV is a prime example of pathetic people that have found the ultimate bullhorn to pronounce their woes on a national scale, underhandedly propagating the notion of normalcy for the masses in a world replete with rampant moral as well as tangible corruption. The individual pity party has expanded into the realms of near ubiquity. Just as heroin makes life better for those suffering from pain, such a social demise offers the narcosis of sympathy. It sells because it works, but only in the short term and with a miserable denouement when the dose of the “drug” becomes toxic. Demise is the result, be it an actual heroin overdose or a fracture of the psyche too deep from mending. This begs the question: How are individuals to become party poopers of pity parties when our culture is sending invitations to the biggest bash of all?
Genruk
Tags: Apostasy, culture, Discontent, Inculcation, Philosophy, Truth
The sentiment of Bad Natured is geared towards discovering the off ramp from the platitudinous philosophic contentions that serve to perpetuate and honor themselves as opposed to, and at the expense of, the humans that created them. It is time to set aside, leave behind, and move beyond these tired philosophies of yesteryear and embrace pragmatic, living and breathing contentions whose purpose is to serve mankind instead of promoting the highfalutin notion of intelligentsia safely ensconced in its ivory towers of thundering self-importance. It is time to reverse the subjugation that philosophies past have held over man, theories whose self-serving import spin unnecessary answers to issues that exist in some sidereal realm of which the everyman is not only made aloof, but unknowingly is driven to counterfeit cosmic actors and actresses whose only role is to play out a global tragedy, as if no other means of existence could possibly make sense. Instead of the canonic role-playing applied to man and his purpose in life, Bad Natured merely approaches the truths of the human creature in order to facilitate an existence based upon the veritable nature of man instead of the highly romantic and supposedly divine role of men and the ludicrous fashion of existence that has only led human beings to beat themselves silly upon a insuperable wall of discontent. As such, the goals of Bad Natured are:
1. Help humanity see the veritable creature that man is as opposed to the mythical creature that culture has concocted for mankind to believe itself to be
2. To reduce and eliminate the shame that culture has infused man with when the inner animal of humanity comes seeping in the surface
3. To help man be at one with the animal that he is. This is not to say that men should attempt to satisfy their every carnal whim, but to understand that these emotions are part of the collective that is human nature and not the whims of some nefarious entity
4. To use these truths of human nature in the creation of judicious and insightful communities and feasible legislative policies that take into account the veritable nature of man
If man is to have a goal, a purpose in life, it should be to get off the high horse of hubris that threatens the tenuous infrastructure of society and instead turn that blind eye back upon ourselves, see ourselves as we really are, and then institute a society based on what we are and not that we wish to be.
Tags: Apostasy, Discontent, Human Nature, Philosophy, Truth
The common argument today is that our civilization is but an expression of our fundamental human nature and that any attempts to parry such a phenomenon is a fruitless blow to basic humanity. What rubbish! What this short-sighted view fails to take into account is the inculcating forces of culture, forces which cause men to behave in ways far removed from their natural inclinations. Culture is no doubt the result of the expression of humanity, but its foundations are born of an unnatural explosion of the human population which has resulted in bloated community populations of which man is not suited. As such, culture is no longer interested in merely mirroring the natural facets of humanity and has instead engendered the responsibility of containing man’s inherent of behavioral expressions in a fashion that accords to the abstract wishes of civilization in its efforts to propagate that same civilization at the cost of individual contentedness. In other words, as man has been forced to accord himself to the wants of society, his basic instincts are no longer the driving force of human expression, resulting in a culture which is not so much an expression of pure humanity but is instead an expression of an aberrant humanity that is stressed beyond comprehension. It is this distorted expression that deserves our attention here in our plight, our disheveled search for a means to find a social structure upon which consummate contentedness is to be the order of the day.
Tags: Apostasy, culture, Discontent, Human Nature, Inculcation, Philosophy, Truth
Bad Natured is, yep, the first cultural step, the grand announcement, that man has a problem. Be it addiction to drink, drug, sex, or convenient rationalization and self-centered behavior at the expense of humanity, one must first realize that one has in his gritty little palms the pink slip of shame before congruent action can be taken. But unlike the drunk that needs to fall to bottom of the barrel to find that his lot might be bettered by abandoning the bottle before action is taken to correct his wayward ways, civilization has no such luxury of time. By the time the West discovers that its errant ways are leading to its own utter extirpation it will be too late to take action. It may in fact already be too late, but defeatism is not to be tolerated as policy, and hence the message must continue to be perpetuated.
The West has a problem, a problem that is leading to its downfall, and unless man owns up to this fact , having moved past the age of universal empire, his lot will soon succumb to the age of full-blown social decay. This will not be as pretty as it sounds, and it sounds awful. The reality is that man needs to face the mirror of his nature and own up to what he what he sees, not that which he wishes to see. Bad Natured is simple a transitional aid which serves to help man to truthfully appreciate the equivocations that he has come to believe as opposed to the truths that he has yet to face. Bad Natured : Why Humans Cannot Behave, does this with minimal judgment and with open arms to help face those dogmas that have obnubilated reality with specious philosophies which have only served up a plate of strife and discontent in the guise of social nutrients. It is time to take the poison out of social dogma by joining what might be thought of as my social program, aptly called Cultural Inculcation Anonymous.
Tags: Apostasy, Civilization, Discontent, Inculcation, Social, Truth
One of the catch phrases today that is used to capture all that is evil is “the wave of genocide,” which is literally defined as a social movement with the attempt and execution of the extermination of a specific class of people based on racial, ethnic, spiritual, national, or some other definable class of people. The idea of the magnitude of such an endeavor chills the blood and knits the forehead. Contemplations of such atrocities catalyzes emotions which in turn becloud any level-headed deliberation of a genocidal campaign. Such endeavors become unimaginable and hence become relegated to the house of iniquity with Satan as mayor. And serious thought in this human capacity becomes tainted with emotionally generated self-righteousness, paving the road of future deterrents with self-deluded concrete as its foundations.
With the famous “too many rats in a cage” study firmly planted in our minds, we must not drop the ball of coherent reason and succumb to the irrationality of emotion. Man must strive to look at this problem with a scientist’s indifferent resolve. Without condoning genocide, Bad Natured will not champion the jockey ponying the of masses of stupidity when eyeballing the causes of such atrocities. When too many people are caged together, and especially when they can be cleaved into two classes or denominations, the only logical result for the humanly animals, beholden to both the Rule of 150 and the Rule of Familiarity, would be for one to turn against the other, often violently so. Being self-aware only confuses the motivations for these resultant campaigns of mass murder, where the strongest aggressor whips he and his cohort’s minds into a frenzy of contrived culpability for their woes, which ineluctably land their cross hairs of incrimination onto the weakest of the two sects. When some social catalyst arrives, such as Hitler or the assassination of a country’s president, the social chemistry of convenient accountability creates the condemnation of the aggressors by way of gas chamber or machete, followed by the tsunami of atrocity until the blood that runneth spills over into the consciousness of the conscientious, the crooked fingers of blame bleating and waving wildly in search of the human manifestation of evil. Crooked fingers originate out of crooked contemplations, and this is the point of this whole philosophical endeavor, for it is implored that for the moment, maybe those crooked fingers might be holstered and that man might finally come to terms with the animal that resides within, that the phenomena of self-awareness has yet the puissance to reign in that holdover of biological evolution, and that until this primal creature is honored, monitored, understood, and ultimately under control of that abstruse notion of the self, atrocity by way of rationalization and justification will remain the order of the day…
Tags: Apostasy, Discontent, Human Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Truth
Modern economics are a gargantuan complex of numbers and psychologies, national moods and dealers of clairvoyance, making any general study of economics an almost forbidden affair. In cahoots with the philosophy of Bad Natured, only economists tend to paint a veritable picture of human nature. Unfortunately that picture is hung in the back alleys of capitalism, hidden from the general public for fear that its disclosure might create a social upheaval in the bloated system of corporate politics. We here at Bad Natured are not so inclined towards reticence and discretion.
As abstruse as our economic infrastructure has come to be, there is one simple aspect that deserves cool deliberation. Our economic system is unwaveringly dependent upon unlimited growth. In other words, were our current system to stabilize itself in a zero-growth fashion, it would falter. OR, when the resources that our economic system demands be infinite instead reveal their finite nature, economic collapse will result. By account of our current system, it is as if man has based our economic system on the utilization of the resources of the entire universe but in fact is limited to those remaining resources that our planet has to offer. Unless we succumb to fairy tale logic, when the ignored limitations of the Earth’s resources come front and center as a real-time phenomenon, the whole house of cards will come tumbling down.
Now we at Bad Natured are all for branching out into the universe, looking for planets chock full of iron and water and maybe even energy, but man had better get his ducks all in order and foment such a search instead of persisting in the bitter and mindless squabble over the dwindling Earth-bound resources at hand. Better yet, maybe another planet will occasion an atmosphere conducive to human colonization. With all of our current technology seemingly directed towards enhancing our silly need for hand held devices of music, connectivity, and personal branding, maybe we should invest in a sidereal campaign and concentrate our efforts towards fomenting such an atmosphere on some presently uninhabitable planet. Unless man can suddenly champion an economic system not based on a fantastical notion of infinite creation of products to satisfy an equally infinite demand for consumption, a materialism driven by the discontent found in a self-aware creature that has traded in his sense of community for a finite moment of greed contented, man had better light a match under the butts of NASA’s ace scientists such that we will have a home to export our Juggernauts of posterity, the ceaseless consumers of the morrow.
Genruk
Tags: Civilization, Discontent, economics, Philosophy, Truth
The Middle Ages, when feudalism predominated the social structure, may have also marked the heights of humanity, at least from the perspective of human nature. With Europe dotted with miniature kingdoms, with lord, knight, and vassals enclosed by the medieval stone walls, what better expression of humanity can be found that could rival this great era through its adherence to the realities of human nature?
Flouting the fantastical notions of egalitarianism, the hierarchical nature of man was supported with aplomb, letting man’s natural order of things to come to fruition in the old fashion habit of letting man earn his way to the top through capacity, aggression, and inherent dominance. In doing so, humans came to exist in a fashion that accorded full support of his natural behavioral inclinations. This is not to say that life was easy and without strife, but that the source of man’s discontent was real and not merely contrived. Man’s struggles were real, for life is a struggle, which is the natural order of biological inevitability. In the first world man, this notion no longer exists in the masses, where the instinctual basics of life are all too accessible, and to make up for this lack of a genuine struggle, humans, in order to create an atmosphere that feels genuine, strives to creates strife and struggle out of thin air, with the drama queen rightfully sitting on the throne in this court of the easy life.
The Rule of 150, with the Rule of Familiarity as its shadow, are shown their full respect in the feudal kingdom. These rules, coupled with man’s capacity for empathy, kept untoward strife and mischief down to an acceptable minimum, and men are much less inclined to profit through disreputable shenanigans levied against those within their community. The small micro-sphere allotted for reasonable numbers of humans to be housed together in a fashion such that facial recognition of its members was near if not ubiquitous. In doing so, xenophobia and other expression of human nature were obviated by the Rule of Familiarity, at least within the bounds of the moat’s interior circumference. Man’s natural inclinations towards apotheosis also found repose in the feudal kingdom, culminating in the divine respect to the lord of the land. As well, the natural fears of shame, humiliation, and fear of banishment likely kept the locals from misguided endeavors that would threaten the overall harmony of the whole.
Surely there was war between the kingdoms, but their wars were limited to knights or samurais avenging some slight or other insult and were not the atrocious wars seen today, where material pursuits and genocide seem to be the dominant intrigues of martial endeavors.
As such, the feudal community had all of the requisite elements for a group of humans to exist in relative harmony compete with an inherent and natural behavioral police force to keep its inhabitant for disturbing the peace beyond acceptable means. Opposed to the ubiquitous strife, discontent, loneliness, and suffering that today’s modern world has to offer its civilians and citizens, the feudal community might just have been the height of humanity, and unless men come to view themselves in an honest light as to their veritable animal nature, it seems unlikely that humanity will ever come to surmount the social acme of feudalism.
Genruk
Tags: Human Nature, Philosophy, Truth
Man has a problem. The problem threatens the further interests of man. The further interests of man is the problem. The solution to this cyclical problem is to contrive a veritable justification. Problem obscured.
Sound familiar? The use of rhetorical logic in our orations in delineating the difficulties that beset humanity is no new phenomena. In fact, the amazing thing here is that we have existed for such a spell utilizing such tactics to further society at the expense of its members. The future only posits an advance of such methods in an attempt to prove that the antithesis of the human creature is the truth, the veritable nature of man a folly to be discredited. In such a travesty of existence, high-minded man becomes increasing skilled at self-delusion; low-minded man becomes so saddled with adversity that he has no time to consider the origin of his situation, almost as if it were part and parcel with the foundations of existence. Then, mindlessly inexplicable, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down, with men all in consternation as to why such a house could have failed with but the slightest winds of change.
Western civilization’s house of cards is looking towards a windstorm not with serious attempts to bolster its foundations but with designs for continuous exploitation coupled with explanations and exported culpability. But our house will fall none the less, and again the common man will bear the brunt of the inevitable implosion of social gravity.
With high society too burdened with retaining their purchase of control, with their mindless clutching of material contentedness and fear of vested interests changing hands, is it in the dregs of society that the power for social to be found? As social revolts have only proven to exchange bad leaders with worse ones, the path of revolution might be found by simply changing one’s lifestyle.. By ending the relentless pursuit of material contentedness, by simplifying life and instead concentrating one’s hours spent with family and community instead of contriving to spend one’s hours in limitless consumption of goods, the common people might actually make a statement that cannot be ignored by the highfalutin crust of society. Would not that be something?
Sadly, though, the nature of man does not allow for the dealing of such a pleasant hand. With this unpleasant truth a new social matrix of humanity is the only way out of this discomfiting labyrinth of cyclic discontent to find its off ramp. Is man ready to engender such a change. or are we still too enmeshed in rampant materialism to see the darkening horizons that our current designs hold in the deck of our future?
Genruk
Tags: Discontent, Human Nature, Philosophy, Truth
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