Realizationi
Posted 02-16-2016 at 11:58 AM by Stymie13
There is a new realization, or maybe it is old and just now resurfacing (funny thing when one isn't starving how the brain starts working again) but, I am not a fan of thought.
As I read and 'discuss' things with people it rears it's head time and again. I am not immune to it, nor am I 'above' it. I try to be cognizant but, hey, I am human. That is why I try to write in a very conversational style. My 'academic' writing was needed in college... I'm long past college. My business writing was needed in corporate America which I am not currently engaged with. My technical writing and 'SOPs', well those are mostly process oriented and 'how to's'... I'll write a 'how to' on making my organic pet food, but from a conversational aspect. And my really terrible poetry is usually me expressing what is troubling me, usually about a woman (at least that is when I have found myself writing it throughout my life).
So what is it about thought that, in bygone days, I would have said 'irks' me but now I just take a breath, count to 5, and usually not respond? Well, why does one need a million words so eloquently phrased to just say 'I don't know'? What harm is it in being ignorant to a question, or a subject, vs. belittling those who don't fit into 'our' little box? I can give examples, we can all give examples, but really, it's all encompassing.
I was in a conversation about healthcare today. It happened. I was listening to others wax philosophic about existence and theism. It happened. I was going to share the classical definition of political terms with someone and even Wiki is overboard on it.
I mean, seriously, do so many people make money off defining, or redefining, simple concepts into very finely worded, eloquent, sophist context so that, a person not in that particular 'industry' day in, day out, will seem hopelessly 'outsmarted' and not even weigh in on said proposition? Me, I'm a dummy. I kind of like it. But there are some smart people with good ideas who aren't in any given industry. I bet there is a 'menial laborer' (used specifically) somewhere who has a tax proposal that would save this country BILLIONS. But the legal, political, and intellectual classes would laugh them out of the room because they didn't quote and cite this economic model or that specific bubble collapse... same with philosophy.
'Scientists' like to use Occam's Razor but, look how they use language... I mean, it seriously is overstated. I know linguists who have a hard time following what they are trying to say and they work with syntax and constructs day in and day out.
Well, I guess it all boils down to the fact that there are those who smart and 'den dare's a whole bunch of us that ain't so smart'. Yet it is us who 'ain't so smart' that build houses, roads, rewire the house, fix plumbing, make sure the plane can fly, run a pneumatic jack hammer, grow our crops, raise our protein food supplies... you know, all that 'stuff' that is simple and easy.
After years of using my brain (which ain't dat smart), and then meeting a woman who reminded me of it (actually she called me intelligent but arrogant), I think working with my hands, but also with my heart, will be more spiritually satisfying? rewarding? How about peaceful and less likely to run up against people using words that I would once have not been so kind with, probably used some fancy, yet still derogatory or derisive name, and ultimately come across as the arrogant j.a. that I am.
As I read and 'discuss' things with people it rears it's head time and again. I am not immune to it, nor am I 'above' it. I try to be cognizant but, hey, I am human. That is why I try to write in a very conversational style. My 'academic' writing was needed in college... I'm long past college. My business writing was needed in corporate America which I am not currently engaged with. My technical writing and 'SOPs', well those are mostly process oriented and 'how to's'... I'll write a 'how to' on making my organic pet food, but from a conversational aspect. And my really terrible poetry is usually me expressing what is troubling me, usually about a woman (at least that is when I have found myself writing it throughout my life).
So what is it about thought that, in bygone days, I would have said 'irks' me but now I just take a breath, count to 5, and usually not respond? Well, why does one need a million words so eloquently phrased to just say 'I don't know'? What harm is it in being ignorant to a question, or a subject, vs. belittling those who don't fit into 'our' little box? I can give examples, we can all give examples, but really, it's all encompassing.
I was in a conversation about healthcare today. It happened. I was listening to others wax philosophic about existence and theism. It happened. I was going to share the classical definition of political terms with someone and even Wiki is overboard on it.
I mean, seriously, do so many people make money off defining, or redefining, simple concepts into very finely worded, eloquent, sophist context so that, a person not in that particular 'industry' day in, day out, will seem hopelessly 'outsmarted' and not even weigh in on said proposition? Me, I'm a dummy. I kind of like it. But there are some smart people with good ideas who aren't in any given industry. I bet there is a 'menial laborer' (used specifically) somewhere who has a tax proposal that would save this country BILLIONS. But the legal, political, and intellectual classes would laugh them out of the room because they didn't quote and cite this economic model or that specific bubble collapse... same with philosophy.
'Scientists' like to use Occam's Razor but, look how they use language... I mean, it seriously is overstated. I know linguists who have a hard time following what they are trying to say and they work with syntax and constructs day in and day out.
Well, I guess it all boils down to the fact that there are those who smart and 'den dare's a whole bunch of us that ain't so smart'. Yet it is us who 'ain't so smart' that build houses, roads, rewire the house, fix plumbing, make sure the plane can fly, run a pneumatic jack hammer, grow our crops, raise our protein food supplies... you know, all that 'stuff' that is simple and easy.
After years of using my brain (which ain't dat smart), and then meeting a woman who reminded me of it (actually she called me intelligent but arrogant), I think working with my hands, but also with my heart, will be more spiritually satisfying? rewarding? How about peaceful and less likely to run up against people using words that I would once have not been so kind with, probably used some fancy, yet still derogatory or derisive name, and ultimately come across as the arrogant j.a. that I am.
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