Tuesday 27 July 2010

La ignorancia es la carga más pesada. Pero quien lo lleva no lo siente. Valeriu Butulescu

Creo que mi primer tema será la ignorancia. Desde que me siento tan rodeado por ella en todo momento y es realmente lo que más me frustra sobre la sociedad y los seres humanos en general. ¿Por qué es que todo tiene que simplificarse tanto para llegar a un público más amplio?¿Por qué es que la gente es tan espiritualmente y intelectualmente perezoso que la mayoría no se molestan en tratar de entender algo con sólo la menor profundidad? ¿Es esto que yo sea un snob intelectual o ¿es realmente tan malo como parece? Realmente no puedo ver un buen desarrollo en la sociedad hacia un nivel intelectual más elevado, los grupos intelectuales son tan elitisticos como siempre lo han sido pero no estoy tan seguro de que esto es culpa de los llamados intelectuales, a mí me parece que la mayoría de la gente no tienen interés en intentar siquiera acercarse a ellos sin someterse intelectualmente o profundizar en temas que pueden obtener algo de conocimiento sobre y a través de los medios de comunicación (como ejemplo). A mi modo de ver la tendencia es bastante menos que adentrarse en el núcleo de las cosas y dejarlo tan superficial como sea posible para no molestar la paz , por si acaso hubiera algo inquietante bajo la superficie, la gente no quiere despertar de sus sueños agradables y realmente ver lo que pasa a su alrededor. Me doy cuenta como suena para las personas que no comparten mi punto de vista, pero si uno abre los ojos por unos segundos es muy fácil de ver cómo la gente está tratando de esconderse detrás de la comodidad. Siempre he tenido esta visión de la vida y siempre he encontrado la vida aquí en Noruega muy superficial . No es que yo creo que la gente de Noruega son genéticamente o culturalmente más expuestos a ser superficiales, que las demás personas, sólo que ellos tienen más oportunidad por el alto estandard de vida .Aunque por lo que pude ver el interés por los asuntos intelectuales fue aún menor en Chile que aquí en Noruega (observación muy personal) en general, la gente parecía más preocupado por sus familiares y amigos luego lograr un exito material. No estoy diciendo que la gente noruego no son preocupados por sus familias y amigos, pero estoy bastante seguro de que la lucha por alcanzar los bienes materiales y la presión ha hecho la gente ciega de algunas cosas básicas que era sentido común sólo un par de generaciones atrás. A menudo me pregunto cómo la gente muy mayor que vivía a través de la 2. guerra mundial, les tiene que resultar triste ver cómo la gente toma las cosas tan por echo . ¿Hace la riqueza materialista a la gente intelectual y espiritualmente perezosos ? Estoy bastante seguro de que la respuesta a la última es sí, la pereza espiritual va de la mano con el confort materialista, la cuestión intelectual es un poco más complejo, ya que un alto nivel intelectual requiere un cierto nivel de la sociedad para florecer.Por otra parte, es por supuesto una pregunta sobre qué tipo de intelectualismo que estamos hablando. Personalmente creo que esta es una de las preguntas más difíciles para mí. ¿Cómo defender que una pequeña élite de personas están sentadas sano y salvo de los problemas del mundo y tratar de resolverlos sin siquiera ensuciarse las manos. Por eso creo que siempre regreso a la educación de las masas como la mejor respuesta a este problema . Creo que los niños deben ser educados en la filosofía y la ética, etc desde que son muy pequeños, de esa manera pueden pensar por ellos mismo y siempre ser escéptico hacia las verdades absolutas que los adultos imponen. Creo que cada nueva generación debe tener un nuevo conjunto de verdades o averiguar si los antiguos matuvieron algo de verdad. También creo que si se comienza a educar a los niños a una edad muy temprana, sobre pensar por sí mismos , no seria tan fácil para ellos ser víctima de la enorme presión de la industria comercial y su control de mente. Creo que la gente piensa que no son influenciados por él y creen que tienen el control y realmente compran sólo lo que ellos mismos necesitan o quieren, pero en realidad es fácil ver que eso no es el caso si uno lo vez un poco más de cerca ... Es extraño ver cómo la gente, por ejemplo, realmente creo que su gusto es el de ellos mismos (incluyendo a mi misma) ... pero si lo es, ¿por qué se modifica cuando cambia la moda? Creo que esto es como la parte más triste de la sociedad moderna, creo que estas grandes corporaciones del capitalismo altamente agresivo que tenemos ahora y sus herramientas extremadamente eficazes de control mental , tienen un generacion completamente sumida, sin siquiera saberlo. Me parece que tantas personas estan actuando como zombies y ni siquiera ven con que están llenando sus vidas . Y esto creo que es la razón por la cual todo tiene que ser tan superficial, par mantener a la gente confortablemente adormecidos y con la ilusión de que todo esta bajo su control y realmente saben lo que está pasando , pero en verdad estan exactamente dónde las fuerzas que los controlan quieren que esten, haciendo exactamente lo que ellos quieren.

..... La comodidad es la mejor forma de control a mi parecer .....





Ignorance is the heaviest of burdens, yet he who bears it is not aware of it. Valeriu Butulescu

I think my first subject will be ignorance. Since I feel so surrounded by it at all times and it`s really what most frustrates me about society and humans in a general. Why is it that everything has to be simplified so much to reach a broader audience ? Why is it that people are so spiritual and intellectually lacy that most can`t be bothered to try to understand something with just the smallest profoundness ? Is this me being an intellectual snob or is it really as bad as I think ? I really can`t see any good development in society towards a higher intellectual level, it`s as elitistic as it has always been but I`m not so sure this is the so called intellectuals fault, to me it seems like most people just have no interest in even trying to approach them self to intellectual subject or to dig deeper into subjects they may get some knowledge about trough the media ( as one example) . The way I see it the tendency is rather to go less into the core of things and leave it as shallow as possible so not to disturb peoples peace of mind just in case there would be something disturbing under the surface , heaven forbid people would be waken up from their pleasant dreams and would actually see what was going on around them. I realize what this sounds like for people who don`t share my view , but if one open ones eyes for just a second it is really easy to see how people are trying to hide behind comfort. I have always had this outlook on life and have always found life here is Norway very superficial. Not that I think Norwegian people are genetically or culturally more exposed to being superficial then other people , just that they have more of an opportunity because of the high materialistic standard of living most people here have. Although from what I could see the interest for intellectual matters was even smaller in Chile then here in Norway ( very personal observation) people seemed generally more concerned about their families and friends then achieving material sucsess. I am not saying Norwegian people aren`t concerned about their families and friends but I am pretty sure the struggle to achieve material goods and the pear pressure has made people blind to some basic things that was normal commune sense just a couple of generations ago. I often wonder how really old people who lived trough the 2. world war must find it sad to see how people take things so much for granted and if they try saying something about what it was like for them many times just get ridiculed. Does materialistic wealth make people intellectual and spiritually lazy ? I am pretty sure that the answer to the last one is yes, spiritually laziness goes hand in hand with material comfort if you look on a world basis, the intellectual question is a bit more tricky, since a high intellectual level most of the time requires a certain standard of society to blossom. Then again it is of course a question about what kind of intellectualism we are talking about. Personally I think this is one of the hardest questions for me. How to defend that a small elite of people are sitting safe and sound from the worlds problems and trying to solve them without even getting their hands dirty. That`s why I think I always come back to education of the masses as the best answer. I think children should be educated in philosophy and ethics etc. from they are very small ,that way they can be thought to think for them self and always be skeptic towards the absolute truths that the adults force on them. I think every new generation should have a new set of truths or at lest find out if the old ones have any truth left in them. I also really believe that if you start educating children at a very early age about thinking for themselves they will not so easily fall victim to the huge pressure from the brainwashing commercial industry. I think people think they don`t get influenced by it and think they have the control and really just see and buy what they themselves need or want, but it is really easy to see that that`s not the case if you look a bit closer...
It`s strange to see how people for instance really think that their taste is their own (myself included) and if it is , why do it change when fashion change ? I think this is like the saddest part of modern society, I think these giant corporations that the highly aggressive capitalism we now have and their extremely effective tools of brainwashing commercials and the way they sneak it in where people are lest aware of it , has got whole generations sleeping without even knowing it. I find so many people are walking around like zombies and not even seeing what they are filling their life with. And this I think is the reason why everything has to be so superficial , in order to keep the people feeling comfortably numb and keeping them in the illusion that they are all in control and really sees what is going on when in fact they are exactly where the controlling forces want them to be, doing exactly what they want them to do.

.....comfort is the best form of control it seems.....

Sunday 25 July 2010

Hi and welcome !

Hi and welcome to my blog :)

since I am completely new to this and have no idea whatsoever how to design a webpage ( yet) it`s kinda very amateur like but I kinda like the title.. I could not find a picture that was really any good so I`ll taking some and changing the outlay later . Any suggestions is very welcome since as I said I don`t know anything about designing a page .
First of all I`m not really sure how I wanna use this blog but I`m thinking kinda random thoughts and things that o cure in life that I might find interesting to write about and also subjects that interests me and was also thinking about uploading photos and videos that I have taken myself but also of music i like and so on, I guess I`ll find out as I go along then...

I guess I can write a little about my self first I am from Norway and has just moved back her after living 6 years in Chile ( Valparaiso mostly) , basically lost my belongings in the giant February 27. earthquake and so I decided to move back to Norway to try and make a fresh start. I am 35 , my husband is from Chile and I have 4 gorgeous kids who I love more then anything in this world ! I was hoping to use this blog to write and talk about the things that interests me and also hopefully get feedback from other people that are interested in the same sort of subjects or who just wanna comment on whatever it is I write, I am not accustomed to blogging so you will have to excuse me if this first post is a bit confusing, I`m sure I`ll get better ( or at least I hope so)... I think my biggest problem on keeping up this blog will be time , since my three youngest kids are still very small I don`t really have a lot of spear time, but if anyone actually bothers to read the stuff I write I will make an effort to keep this thing alive ... I will post this on my Facebook wall and hopefully some of my nearly 5000 Facebook friends will find it in their heart to follow this blog or at least try ! The once that have blogs on blog spot please let me know so that I can follow them as well as I am completely clueless to these things ( sorry)..

So... what are my interest then and what is the point to this blog ? First of all ! Sorry for writing in English I know most of the people that read this probably speak Spanish and I will make an effort to post in Spanish and English ( not Norwegian since everyone I know here understands English anyway ) Just that I need a bit more time to write in Spanish to correctly edit my grammar and stuff. (Does this page have translation , anyone knows ??)
... em mm .... where were I... ? oh yes my interests ! ( this is how I always write , completely spontaneous and I am sure very confusing and a bit annoying...sorry)
I guess I wonder a lot about life in general and so I tend to find anything that has to do with philosophy very interesting also I am very fascinated by the human mind and therefor read a lot of psychology .I am also very spiritually seeking and read a lot about religions and other spiritual matters. Have had my heart close to Buddhism for a very long time but have lately come to be very fascinated and taken by the Norse mythology . I am trying to keep an open mind about these matters and try to read about things and also hear people out before judging their view and religious belief , even tho I might strongly disagree. I would love to discuss these matters with people here and I will be very thankful for any comments on any subject I might write about . Just hope people will reply in a decent manner and that those who have been following me since my fotolog days just to try to write bad stuff about me that they please just give it a rest since I don`t even read the stuff they write me anymore :)
Ok so I`m hoping to post my first real topic later on today , as of now I have to go make dinner so I can`t really get started on anything right now. ok byebye and to my facebook friends please let me know about your blogs or add me here ok , see ya ;)

Besos !! Eva