I have often said that the older generation must look itself in the mirror of the younger generation! Looking into that mirror which the young ones hold up in front of us is crucial for change!
Because that is the only way to correct the course away from habitual thinking and habitual actions. Never before has this perspective been more relevant than in these days, when human made climate change is about too extinguish not only already threatened species, but mankind itself.
“The house is on fire”, Greta Thunberg tells us! This she does together will millions of young people all over the world, while most of the world’s major leaders sits there in the burning house almost passive in relation to the intensity of the fire!
They are sitting there together with the big business corporations and financial institutions, and wonder how to expand growth and increase economic wealth. And they do it without really taking action to put out the fire.
My aim on Psychological Universe is to remind ourselves what an almost inconceivably advanced organism we humans are. By reminding us of this fact we all have the opportunity to learn and change our behaviour according to an upcoming crisis. This is our self-preservation instinct in it’s most healthy form.
WHAT WE MUST BEWARE WHILE EARTH IS REVOLVING AROUND ITSELF:
Inborn friendliness.
Despite our enormous brain capacity and inborn social friendliness, our gradually evolving psychology and its coping strategies, unfortunately adapts itself to an already unfriendly world.
Copying bad role models
This makes us consciously or unconsciusly copying the strategies of the dominant, competitive, vindictive and fiendish role models that apparently rule the world with their power.
Survival instincts
That approach is so to speak a survival instinct of man, in a warlike scene. This scene being our family, our schoolyard, at work or in business or politics, not to mention international affairs.
The fight and conquer approach
Research tells us however, that our present and dominant mode of survival can be changed. This change is possible, – only if we gradually realize that the “fight and conquer approach”, does not necessarily convey our true self as human beings.
A world defined by power people
Instead it might be said to convey a rather skewed adaption to a somewhat skewed world. A world mostly defined by power people, with both money, and means to get their view of man out through all kinds of media. If that view of man is not mediated by words, it is perfectly mediated by recognizable pattern of actions.
An obsolete an non-adaptive view of man.
Ever since philosopher Hobbes famous quote , “everybody’s war with everybody”, and Thomas H. Huxley’s misediting of the last edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species”, this obsolete view of man has been ruling the world. And therefore capitalism in it’s attitude of constant growth and fight and conquer mentality, is imcompatible with what the world needs now! And therefore obsolete! Such non-curbed growth in human cells and bodies is called cancer.
For this reason we must change this negative view of man according to new research on the human brain, and on infants and children.
Good input makes good output.
We know that both children and grown-ups, identify with important people in their surroundings. This impact from role models also models their own way of thinking, feeling and acting towards others and the world. It also models their sense of self, and their self-confidence. Children must learn early in life that the enviroment outside our home is as important as the physical and social environment inside our family and home.
What is the alternative: If the present obsolete and negative view of man is left there unchallenged, it will be difficult to cope with climate change, vast migration, uncurbed capitalism, and meaningless warfare.
Two days in the short life of Alan Kurdi, in the present world.
A new view of man necessary to cope with todays challenges.
If we continue business as usual, It will also make it very difficult to reconcile different religions, politics and continue building stabile societies,. It’s not a question of we and them, it’s us together in a mutual we, in an effort to rescue the world!
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Active on the old track, or a passive bystander?
Please accept that you need not be an active contributer to the current situation in the world. Neither do you need to be a passive bystander to all this!
You are an extremely advanced organism. Act like it!
You have probably the most advanced brain and nervous system in our part of the Universe. Use it for all what it’s worth. That’s my challenge to you and me. That’s my reason for this website. (check frontpage: http://www.selvuniverset.com/
Check also “CONTENT”page on the horizontal menue, to find posts and pages with examples, and argumentation for this new turn in the perception of you and me, as human beings. http://www.selvuniverset.com/content/
