Into the woods.

Net oninteressanten Artikel vun engem relativ spacey Blog.

If we look at our civilized self, we find a creature that is soft, insulated, and afraid. And we’re so protective of our insulation that we’ll wage violence to protect it.

Ech giff natiirlech wuel kaum sou eng ‘wilderness immersion’ mat maan (héichstens eng Dag oder zwee), mee deen Artikel schneit Themen un, iwwert déi ech och schon nogeduecht hunn:

• Wéi halen indigène Völker ët aus, oft einfach nemmen ronderem ze setzen ouni wirklech vill ze man (opmanst am Verglech mat eis)? Mir sinn dach schon no 10 Minutten näischt maachen gelatzt.
• Die Vitesse mat der sech bei ass alles dréint ass verrëckt, genau wéi d’Offer un Informatiounen.
• Et ass een wirklech kaum nach richteger Pëng ausgesaat (wat awer och keen Fehler ass!!). Wann meng Dusch op eemol kaal gët, sou ass dat schon mat dat désagréabelst, wat ech deen Dag erliewen wärt (wéi einfach wier et mëch ze folteren, wann ech eng Informatioun rausrécken sollt??)!
• Ass den Mënsch grondsätzlech gudd oder schlecht?
• etc

Nach interessant Passagen:

Boredom, we discover, is nothing other than the sensation of slowing down. It has an opposite sensation – stimulation – which is the sensation of speeding up. Because we’re surrounded by influences that urge us to speed up, most of us get used to the feeling of stimulation. And since our culture gives us the message that boredom (which we might also call ‘quietness’) is negative, we seek to avoid it, and get very uncomfortable with it.

What do you think would be left if you stripped everything away? Would you discover a bloodthirsty beast eager to ravage the world? Or would you discover a quiet, peaceful creature who is intelligent and aware? This is the ‘you’ who has complete freedom. No laws. No responsibility. No society to tell you what is right and wrong. What would you become?