A technical consideration of the/my human experience
Friday, April 17, 2009
Retaliation
When you retaliate, you are giving up self - you are only responding to your environment, and not acting independently.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
well, I really need to sleep soon, so this will be brief and disjointed, perhaps.
on your thoughts of retaliation and reaction vs creation and self-motivated action...
I do wonder how to differentiate the two.
It's treacherously easy to assert that all actions are a reaction. I think that would miss some underlying point.
I mean, what we are looking for is to act having considered more, to act in response to a more whole, lasting desire? To better direct responses based on these?
I would also say something about root desires, but... not sure where I'd be going.
How would you define the difference between reaction and response?
Hmmm... I'm not sure I like blogger as a mechanism for discussion.
Anyway-- hope you are well. And seriously, if I get any ideas on how to make you rich, I'll send them your way.
2 comments:
well, I really need to sleep soon, so this will be brief and disjointed, perhaps.
on your thoughts of retaliation and reaction vs creation and self-motivated action...
I do wonder how to differentiate the two.
It's treacherously easy to assert that all actions are a reaction. I think that would miss some underlying point.
I mean, what we are looking for is to act having considered more, to act in response to a more whole, lasting desire? To better direct responses based on these?
I would also say something about root desires, but... not sure where I'd be going.
How would you define the difference between reaction and response?
Hmmm... I'm not sure I like blogger as a mechanism for discussion.
Anyway-- hope you are well. And seriously, if I get any ideas on how to make you rich, I'll send them your way.
: )
Later
--Stephen
On consideration, I think I'll reserve "comments" for other places (facebook, email) and not here anymore, unless you want them here. Reasons--
1. too hard to tell if you write back
(well, this might just be because I commented using an account under Sugi's name)
2. the feel of this page is artistic and meditative-- I feel like I'm scratching notes on the Mona Lisa.
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