Addiction and the External
I believe there are two ideas Dr. Hart may be implying in drug addiction and the fear of drug addiction. One idea is that people may have a strong feeling that they don't have free will(a lack of of choice - Someone else knows what makes me happy more than I do). Another idea is that people have a fear that others won't and don't accept them (A fear of others not feeling the same way you do in any given situation). I believe drugs as well as communicating with anything external to yourself, are a means of denying or finding a Truth. The irony is that Truth is merely what makes 'you' content. Many dread the idea that the world, as well as themselves, are beyond fixable. The truth is, in this regard, one does not have a choice. You have to strive for a more content self. You have to hope for a better future for there is nothing to loose...
We must make our best guess as to what external to us is good for us.
Understanding Ourselves
Everyday people are communicating and understanding the environment around them. Wither it is saying hi to a total stranger or observing the flow of people in a busy city we are making a mind map of the world around us. For my first article I will talk about a theory of mine that answers the question, why are we the way we are?
Nature and Nurture, Hand in Hand
Have you ever wondered why a bully will hurt a classmate or why a fireman will risk his life to save someone? Well things like this happen because humans all have characteristics that invoke a particular action. In understanding why a human gains a particular set of characteristics we look at two basic ideas. The first idea is that humans are the way they are because of the genetics they have gotten. It has been said that these genetics will give humans tendencies to believe in a particular idea or act in a particular fashion. The second idea is that human characteristics are made from a set of given experiences. These experiences shaping a persons characteristics by influencing them to see their environment in a distinct way. Now both these ideas have been debated as an argument known as "nature vs. nurture" but do both these ideas have to be one or the other? Well through my understanding, I see both these ideas as both having to do with who we are. I personally see genetics as 30% whereas nurture 70% but for reasons of staying on point I'll leave my explanation out. Now with all this said there is one very important question that is sparked from this nature and nurture being together. Do we really have a free will? If everything we believe and do is the sole result of our characteristics and our characteristics are the sole result of our genetics and experiences then we are bound to do what we
do. This becomes an even more interesting idea when we start to realize that we can't really blame people for being the way they are. For example, if Bob the bully is acting extremely mean to Jack and Jack hates him because of that, can you blame Bob for bullying him? What if Bob has been being mean because he has lived in a abusive household and takes his anger out on Jack? Shouldn't we help Bob out of a abusive household? What all this really seems to show is that we never truly get to choose our genetics or the way we grow up. We only believe in the idea of individuality because of the comfort we get from it and our ignorance of not knowing any better.
Nature and Nurture, Hand in Hand
Have you ever wondered why a bully will hurt a classmate or why a fireman will risk his life to save someone? Well things like this happen because humans all have characteristics that invoke a particular action. In understanding why a human gains a particular set of characteristics we look at two basic ideas. The first idea is that humans are the way they are because of the genetics they have gotten. It has been said that these genetics will give humans tendencies to believe in a particular idea or act in a particular fashion. The second idea is that human characteristics are made from a set of given experiences. These experiences shaping a persons characteristics by influencing them to see their environment in a distinct way. Now both these ideas have been debated as an argument known as "nature vs. nurture" but do both these ideas have to be one or the other? Well through my understanding, I see both these ideas as both having to do with who we are. I personally see genetics as 30% whereas nurture 70% but for reasons of staying on point I'll leave my explanation out. Now with all this said there is one very important question that is sparked from this nature and nurture being together. Do we really have a free will? If everything we believe and do is the sole result of our characteristics and our characteristics are the sole result of our genetics and experiences then we are bound to do what we
do. This becomes an even more interesting idea when we start to realize that we can't really blame people for being the way they are. For example, if Bob the bully is acting extremely mean to Jack and Jack hates him because of that, can you blame Bob for bullying him? What if Bob has been being mean because he has lived in a abusive household and takes his anger out on Jack? Shouldn't we help Bob out of a abusive household? What all this really seems to show is that we never truly get to choose our genetics or the way we grow up. We only believe in the idea of individuality because of the comfort we get from it and our ignorance of not knowing any better.
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