Beware the Brain
So, basically, I was sitting here thinking (first problem, too much time on my hands, working an 11 hour shift at Snodgrass), when does analysis lead to obsession. In theory, some people say that we can control our thought processes by first becoming aware of them, but in striving for understanding, we overshoot, and OVER-analyze. What then? At that point are you just living in a fantasy world that you're overactive brain created out of boredom? Have our brains now evolved too fast for our emotional/animal/instinctual selves to deal with, resulting in mental diseases and disorders that just seem to be growing more and more prevalent in society? Or is it just, once again, boredom of the brain because living is too easy. But we're the ones that created the idea of mental disease in the first place. Where is the root of the problem? It just seems like all these questions become circular arguments and then you just spewed out a whole wack of words, just to come back to the beginning again. So what's the point? I know i know, i'm rambling.
posted by Lauren at 2:46 PM
4 Comments:
yes, there are times when i have a dilemma and have thought "all i have to do is sit down and analyze this problem for a few days, and eventually i should be able to figure out exactly what i should do." It never seems to work out that way. If anything, it just makes you crazier. Logic sure does fail us sometimes, maybe its because im just not good enough at it.
A mental disorder is characterized in Psycology as any way of thinking that interferes with your social, love, and work life. But does that mean that we all have a form of this so called "disorder"? Surely there is not one human on this earth who fits into society perfectly. Unfortunately, with the growing popularity of Psychology (or pop-psychology), We just use the jargon and accept even more warped views about how a human being is "suposed" to act in this world without even questioning it. Obviously if someone is so depressed that they want to kill others or themselves, it would be ideal if we could just give them a pill and poof! Magically, we have a happy person. Thats what people thought of prozac at first. What about ecstasy? Is there any chenmical produced naturally in our environment that stimulates our little nubby neurons to cook up some more of that serotonin goodness? Could it be weed?
What about sex? And dare I say love? Aren't they supposed to all trigger the release of all those oh-I-feel-all-warm-and-fuzzy-on-the-inside feelings. (and I don't mean that in a lewd way) Maybe we just turn to drugs because these 'natural' sources are not giving us what we need, because society is encouraging isolation, independence and privacy instead of love, caring and sharing? But I guess that doesn't lead to money and power...or does it.
I don't think there's anything like over-analysis, just the poor use of reason.
I see reason as something vital, something that helps us live in the world, a ratiovitalism if you will.
So when you are circularising yourself into an ineffectual cognitive frenzy, like you say, this is simply having too much time to think, too easy of a life, thus not having to deal with every living moment as such, or maybe it's the other way 'round? That too much time allows you to live in every moment just a bit too long. Whatever the case, a balance I think is the best, again since reason is specifically made for, and by necessity must be, applied to living, otherwise a self-balancing mechanism aimed at survival; again pointing to the need of grounding oneself in living, i.e., how will I get that nut out of that tree, or better yet, how do I love the people around me so they can be happy and help me get that nut out of that tree!
Ah nuts and trees.
Anyhow, I'm glad that someone's asking the hard questions, it makes me happy.
hmmm, is it really about survival of the fittest anymore? Are we really supposed to believe that natural selection is working on us when pretty much anyone that wants to can reproduce? Not to mention the fact that modern medicine tries to even out the differences that nature uses to 'balance' the world. So here's another question, with all our new technology we almost seem to be destroying the natural balance of nature, but can we really assume that we're destroying nature when we are just as much a part of nature as anything else? I guess we could be the world's biggest baddest parasite and eventually, Nature will balance us out when we destroy ourselves by exhausting all of our essential resources.
by the way, who are you Mr./Ms. Anony-mouse?
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