“Sliding through professions and geography, minimizing race and class, the yearning for androgyny and psychological environmentalism are all unsatisfying because they neglect or deny the category-making nature of cognition itself. The fashionable ideal that everyone should be free of imposed definition in order to be whatever he wants, to choose and change identity in spite of the accidents of birth, and to define self according to ideology and personal taste is very appealing, though in some grievously frustrating way appallingly inadequate and wrong.
The adolescent, caught between the modern world's chronic shortage of order and the chic psychology of identity by assertion, is on queasy ground. The ideal conflicts with the thrust of his mental development, which is to distinguish, define, and classify. The central task of his first twelve years is to develop his powers of discrimination, linking them to speech, and to master the art of conceptualizing and abstracting by searching out the commonalities and differences among plants and animals—traits given, not chosen.”
― Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence
The adolescent, caught between the modern world's chronic shortage of order and the chic psychology of identity by assertion, is on queasy ground. The ideal conflicts with the thrust of his mental development, which is to distinguish, define, and classify. The central task of his first twelve years is to develop his powers of discrimination, linking them to speech, and to master the art of conceptualizing and abstracting by searching out the commonalities and differences among plants and animals—traits given, not chosen.”
― Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence
“If the life source is female, then we as women partake of Her divinity. When that divinity is named and envisaged only in male terms, where does that leave women? On the outside, looking in. We women need our own expressions of deity, our own female explanations for the way of things.”
― Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic
― Ariadne's Thread: A Workbook of Goddess Magic
“For real healing to ever begin, true progress to be enabled - no conversation whatsoever - regardless how unpleasant and irrespective of how uncomfortable - must be deemed as taboo.”
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“As the world is connected understanding is disconnected.”
― Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
― Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
“8.2 BILLION & COUNTING:
Likely many do indeed "love children" - and see them as representation of energy, creativity, vitality etc. There's a history as long as humankind in loving children as the new generation, and it is firmly ingrained as bitter to suggest otherwise.
For me however modern kids DO NOT represent a thing of hope at all - conversely, they're for the most part an abomination and they'll assuredly grow into more mass-produced adults.
Most people will however claim otherwise because of a long instilled semlance of loyalties and expectation, or merely out of fear of perceived negativity and as an avoidance of horrid unsuitable realities.”
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Likely many do indeed "love children" - and see them as representation of energy, creativity, vitality etc. There's a history as long as humankind in loving children as the new generation, and it is firmly ingrained as bitter to suggest otherwise.
For me however modern kids DO NOT represent a thing of hope at all - conversely, they're for the most part an abomination and they'll assuredly grow into more mass-produced adults.
Most people will however claim otherwise because of a long instilled semlance of loyalties and expectation, or merely out of fear of perceived negativity and as an avoidance of horrid unsuitable realities.”
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