Media saturate our consciousness with good-looking, sexy, obscenely rich "role-models", most of whom act like 2-year-old sociopaths. People start watching violent, sexually-explicit music videos and other pornography from early childhood.
Clearly, "anything goes" today. But no, not quite! Mention the word "wisdom", and people run away as fast as they can.
Wisdom: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2015/01/620-what-is-wisdom.html
and: http://www.johnlovas.com/2012/04/psychospiritual-technologies.html
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Wisdom might be esoteric and excludes many people from the conversation who may feel like the topic doesn't apply to them, possibly because they don't see themselves as wise. Perhaps they don't see wisdom as something to be developed or that they may be too young. Maybe "wisdom" needs a new branding. ;) But in all seriousness, it is interesting but I don't think it is because people inherently don't want to be wise. I think many people out there don't see themselves as smart and therefore don't identify with any associated words, including wisdom.
ReplyDeleteGood points Mandy. There is an impossible-to-process deluge of "information", so many would feel inadequate or "not smart enough" to have adequate knowledge of many topics, probably contributing to increasing levels of anxiety. Another possibility, besides generalized distraction disorder (GDD - just made it up), is intentional over-specialization to have competence in at least one thing ("nuclear giants"), but with minimal general knowledge, interest in even one's own, never mind humanity's, quality of life ("ethical infants").
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