Well, Hello 🙋♂️ Community 👋!
Unfortunately for the last couple of days, I have not been able to keep up with my updating schedule, due to circumstances beyond my control, but I am working on getting back to updating on a daily basis.
That said, here is something small for you people to muse on 🤔.
Do enjoy!
Many thinkers have over time have come to the realization that we all require some sort of psychological mechanisms or emotional stimulants in order for us to navigate the hardships and difficulties we all face on a daily basis as a result of our existence.
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The emotional aids and psychological mechanisms being meant to provide a conviction to the masses that life indeed is worth, without which we all would become prone to slipping into a state of world-weariness, as is espoused in the "Wisdom of Silenus"
Oh, miserable ephemeral race, children of chance and suffering, why do you compel me to say to you what would be most beneficial for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly unreachable: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best for you is – to die soon.
Many would slip into a state of experiencing an existential crisis, life turning into nothing but a series of meaningless activities. One would have no reason to aspire to live, what would be the meaning of living if it all is meaningless in the end?
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Many philosophers went ahead often suggest that which is difficult is not existence itself, but rather the fact that we are all rather conscious beings, and not just merely the fact that we are just " children of chance and suffering."
As Miguel De Unamuno espoused in his book Tragic Sense of Life:
Apart from the fact there is no normal standard of health, nobody has proved that man is necessarily cheerful by nature. And further, man, by the very fact of being man, of possessing consciousness, is, in comparison with the [donkey] or the crab, a diseased animal. Consciousness is a disease.
Many of the thinkers have indeed made suggestions that consciousness is rather the main culprit responsible for the existential crisis that unfortunately some of us can't seem to run from, fast enough.
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The Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe was among the thinkers who condemned Consciousness as the source of the heavy burden many of us have to bear, as he wrote in his essay titled The Last Messiah
Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being…
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So there he stands with his visions, betrayed by the universe, in wonder and fear. The beast knew fear as well, in thunderstorms and on the lion’s claw. But man became fearful of life itself – indeed, of his very being.
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The thinkers have really great insights on we can try and ease the weight as a result of consciousness, but nonetheless I think we all can agree that despite it being the cause of the crisis to the many of us, it also enables us to experience life on a level that animals nor plants will never experience.
Yeah I know we are also animals biologically but you get the distinction between the said animals and us homo sapiens.
In my next update, I will share some of the mechanisms suggested by the thinkers to help in reducing the effects of too much consciousness.
I will see y'all then.
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