Emotional negligence

 In continuation of the previous post and a recent event happened to me personally warranted another reflection on the social normalisers that end up dividing the people more. One of the normaliser which is prevalent within any group of individuals, societies, civilisations is the faculty of rational and its practice as philosophy. As if we try to explain human behaviour, or zooming in on our mind, we will find the "reasoning-emotion" duality and sadly the science has tackled mostly the reasoning part of our mind because of apparent reasons; reasoning has an objective interface which we can extract, isolate, examine, experiment and even teach and instil. Also for the practical reasons, rational is the tool we have used to build our politico-economical structures. 

These structures have moulded our way of thinking, dealing with problems in a way that we tend to completely negate the emotional side of the issue. This approach works well within the businesses, corporates, to some extend in policy making but this fails miserably in the context of people level. Most of the problems on people level have mostly the emotional impetus than rational one and the proper solution can only come with factoring in the emotional side of it. 

This possesses another problem which is "impossibility" to understand the emotions as they are completely subjective and the only tool we have to express the emotions is the language (which will segue the whole discussion here if we open the inability of languages to completely express what we feel). Hence conversing becomes so important to understand the emotional side of the human beings. 

Human precondition,,,

Politically not enough, in the field of fiction, many have imagined to normalise the society. The idea is to establish a society with uncompromisable equality and opportunities given to every member of the society. Even in the limitless imagination, none was able to still imagine a society which will not divide it self. The reason is the precondition of our self actualisation. Hegel has described this condition eloquently in his mister servant dialect. Since it takes two to recognise one as one gets self awareness in the conscious of the other, the struggle to slave the other will be the inevitable consequence.

In the wake of this precondition, we see many divisors in the social structures; e.g. classes, financial stature. religion, politics, caste/creed/cult etc. Sadly the easy way out to normalise a society, it is always suggested to eradicate the dividers like classes, religion, money etc. This is such a self futile exercise because this just addresses the symptoms but not the cause. Removing these dividers will allow other narratives  to create the wall of "they versus us". I feel by accepting the nature of "human condition" we should thrive for creating a just society rather than employing all the energy in eradicating the dividers.  

Irrelevant generation,,,

 Analysing the present society, the one which you are part of, is not possible. It is on the same lines as trying to analyse a language; the language is ever evolving and the tools you will use to evaluate the language lies in the same entity you are trying to evaluate. The same conundrum is present in analysing the current society. 

This doesn't mean that we should never take a project of understanding our surrounding, one way is to have "mein Gefühl" which is always subjective and not scientific approach. The other one is to look in inherent structures, deconstruct the building blocks and then can study them, at least theoretically. One project with latter approach that I know of is in detailed analysis of capitalism by Marx. This leads me to steal his idea of "alienation" and apply to the current generation I belong to, "the millennials". As I strongly believe the advent of data has killed the "freelance Philosophy". Now you can not philosophise without presenting the data,  and there is a lot of material and studies done on this matter, so I will take the former approach and try to do some "subjective objectification" here. I feel that "millennials" are the most irrelevant generation to exist in the modern history. The reason is that we are in transitional state. Since we got sandwiched between completely non technological generation (baby boomers) and completely technologically oriented generation. We are swaying between romanticism of "soft days" and the nostalgia associated with it. One example is how we are looking for jobs, I do remember when I was growing up I was still looking for classified pages in newspapers (probably an idea which is non existence now).  This can be observed in many aspects of our social interaction too. That is why I feel we are alienated by our predecessor and successor generations because we are in "hybrid" mode and sadly when we will fade away, we will be forgotten as this happens with any transitionary entity,,,  

 

           

 

 

 

Denazification process

 Recently I had a privilege of watching "The Zone of Interest" by Jonathan Glazer in a kino. The movie won Oscars for the best foreign movie and best sound. The movie is not an easy watch by any mean as the topic is very hard to digest. After contemplating for a while, I realised one underlying theme of the movie is "humanising the Nazis" and discuss the idea of "banality of the evil". 

Humanising the Nazis in modern day literature or media is a project to portray Nazis attached with all the nuances and emotions a normal human being has instead of portraying them in comic or pure evil embodiment. I believe this approach is imperative if we ever want to understand the inherent structures that can enable "evil" to happen. Only in this scheme we can understand why humans act in certain ways in certain situations.

This scheme can also shed the light on the issue why atrocities happen in a "loop or in Ewige Wiederkunft" and can highlight the shortcoming of the DeNazification process which was more focussed on punishing the people rather than deconstructing the structures that enabled Nazis to go to the unspeakable length of erasing one human race. Also this scheme can show us that in coming days the same elements can be triggered with different set of people/race, different modus operandi but with the same efficacy and results. One does not have to go far to see the real life and heart wrenching example of same "evil" occurring in the land of Palestine,,,

Collectiveness

 The life is, "something onto death".  As if this is the state of life,  the adage, "live every moment" is a self defeating argument (if we accept to live every moment, the reality is that every moment we breath brings us closer to our inevitable end). The reality of life is inherently a depressive affair but it is the only certainty. Actually this certainty is the only standardiser for humans.  One of the human instinct is to create a divide,  establish a narrative of us and them. The reason of this divide is rooted to establish power over others. We will find a reason to separate ourselves by using either social elements (sub or super structures) or our humanly features like colour of skin etc. With all our differences and nuances, which actually makes us human and interesting, but then why we need to standardise humans? Will it reduce "the humanness" in us? 

I believe if we ever want to derive the purpose of life, we can use this standardised state of life which no living being can release themselves from. If we are all susceptible to death, then we can give up all the dividers to converge to build a purposeful life for everyone. This means that finding  the "meaning/purpose" of life is a collective exercise. So even though life is lived individually but its worth is materialised collectively,,,