Archived Posts from the blog ‘Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life’.
We don’t have enough time to do everything we want to do. But is it a mistake to prioritise and optimise based on what has to be an incomplete understanding of all the factors and limitations we’re faced with? What are we missing out on for the sake of efficiency?
Thinking about time periods of thousands of years — or even just the couple of hundred from the birth of our grandparents to the death of our grandchildren — can help knock us out of ruts. Things have been different and surely will be different, perhaps unimaginably so.
The imperative to live in the here and now can be taken in two ways — one, an invitation to broaden our awareness, and the other, a demand for the narrowing of awareness.
Can good parenting really yield children who are ‘bad seeds’? Are parents really at fault? Or children? Or is the reality just quite a bit more complex than that?
If the individual is totally responsible for their own experience, this lets other people off the hook for any consideration of the consequences of their behaviour.
We need some sense of public conduct, some sense that it would not be acceptable to take an excessive amount of water from a river, for example. In short: I think we need some modern code of honour.
Grieving is about what makes our lives normal, not what makes them pleasant. The new normal may be better or worse than the earlier normal.
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