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Freedom as I see it.
Many great moments of humankind couldn't take place, if there was no one, who dares act without being frightened by an error, that may occur as a result. From the other side, societes of right-minded sheep do appreciate being always correct and rational. As a result, fear of being erroneus is paralysing humans. Moreover, humankind invented "I'm sorry", that justifies an error, but excuses from consequences of the error.
The paradox is that making errors means learning, while one of the most important aims of learning process is avoiding errors.
Though every acting has a risk of an error, there is no real punishment resulted. And those lessons are best humans may learn, so isn't the fear of making errors an absurd enslavement of a mind?
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Imagine a little boy, awakened by a nightmare alone in the bed, in an empty room. He doesn't know, where he is, what was the nigthmare, where are parents, why there is no light, what will happen in next seconds. Nothing is more important than finding anything known, to become safe again.
Very often humans behave like frightened, little boy.
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Yet another shade of fear |
The fear has two immanent characteristics: is related to the future and subjective. If there's no rational reason, psychologists call it an anxiety. The fear is common to all humans, well postioned in a brain, and physiological results are well known as well. There are many usual fears, i.e. spiders, snakes, water, enclosed spaces, future, death, height and a hundreds of phobias, that are a concern of psychiatrists and psychologists.
It seems, irrational anxiety is a result of making the world safe; within very short time, that was not enough for evolution to follow. The fear is basic instinct of most animals, and its goal is to avoid danger and anticipate disadventageous circumstances.
After the world of a human became safe, the mind started to substitute rational dangers with fakes, probably just to maintain this important mechanism.
Thousands years ago, humans realized, the fear is desctructive emotion. Most religions adressed this feeling respectively, while being brave became virtue in most cultures. Anxieties are now the part of human's life, big business for priests, doctors, psychologists, security and pharmacy.
But there is yet another emotion or rather state of mind, that seems to be a fear, though not handled by any specialists. Whilst this fear is not causing physiological reactions, its results are killing humans before their bodies really die. These thoughts turn humans, day by day, into apathic mob and finally into torpor plants. |
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Zmieniony ( 03.01.2010. )
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Death is closely associated with freedom of a human in many patterns. As a basic fear of any animal including humans, it does limit humans decision setting up this fear on the top of all needs. In the culture, humankind managed the problem mainly two way: babilonian based religions (judaistic, christian, romanian) made a highly valued virtue, while asians tried to systematically convince humans (in the process of enlightement) that the death is nothing but a pit stop in the chain of transformations. The first approach gave a wide hope for single human based on naive imagination of after-death life and the God itself, while the second is something much more consistent with todays body of knowledge. If we agree, a human consists of thoughts, there is straight way to understand, that both approaches deal with the same: consciousness. But the death is related mainly to the body!
Even assuming, that with a death of a body the consciousness is dying as well, this could be only the problem of dead and not his relatives. My wife's grandfather who died at the day I wrote this calypso is living in that meaning. As long, as we have him in memories, as we think about him, as long as there are people for whom his mind was a part of their world.
The death for a dying human itself is always pure liberation. From pain, illness, financial problems, from any(?) fear. |
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Every human leaves different traces during his life. It's quite amazing, that single 70 kgs or so body is dispersing during the life huge amount of energy - hundreds of gigajouls or equivalently 18 tons of coal mainly for moving, digest and process information. The origin of this energy is probably the Sun, though. Nothing special, nobody will care, as far as energy is simple and homogenous way of interactions between any particles in known world.
Then, an average human leaves thousands tons of leftovers, a million or so tons of thrash, millions qubic meters of very anonymous carbon dioxide. The water polluted by a single human would create a quite big, stinky lake. Note, all those traces including the flesh will form only small part of stratigraphic layer thinner than one millimetre.
Some humans will leave elements of material culture, that will last for years, centuries or even ages. After humankid developed means of information recording, this trace gained importance, while material culture became less siginificant. The very special information trace is a DNA.
Yet another type of human traces are those created in the unique act of creation arisen always when two or more minds share intense feelings and a kind of freedom. The whole construction consists for example of a smell of a sea, warm sand, love, touch, wind; this is very often summarized as memory, but it does exist in fact. Those elusive and ephemerical creations become incredibly real, when after some time the brain recreates feelings easily, even after several dozen years.
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