Insights are nice.
By: Sammy Weerahannaddi
Tags: Insights, Psychology

I remember having an insight about a decade ago when I was taking a shower. Perhaps much of this will sound like none sense to most but I’m using this more so as a journal so I’m not concerned.

Regardless, I’ve been pondering for some time the difficulties human beings seem to have collaborating with each other. The entire study of psychology has obviously not helped us work together; we’ve never been more divided and at odds as we are now. In fact the advancement of specialist domains like psychology only seem to make lack of collaborative capacity worse. So it feels rather obvious that the psychologists are likely themselves psychologically disordered; therefore any attempt to help on their part makes whatever’s going on worse.

I suppose one of my most significant insights into the activity of man came when I was taking a shower around 10 or 11 years ago; I was reading a shampoo bottle and it just sort of hit me that everything I think and say and how I act, are all based on everything I’ve read, seen, heard, smelt, tasted, etc recorded in someway as memory which I call my knowledge — this might be common knowledge to some, but when it comes out of nowhere as an insight, it really changes how you see everything; it’s more of an understanding that operates by itself and outside the framework of knowledge by which it’s communicated.

It was very clear to me that all my thinking and consequently my actions are based on what I know, what I have gathered in life so far. This seemed at the time to make all of my interests irrelevant and meaningless. Because if I was acting on acquired knowledge, I didn’t see how I was different from a computer or a robot. Somehow I suppose I realized that I was very confused. And so was everybody else.

Because realizing we’re all mechanized through knowledge it became obvious how man has never been free from such stupid things like war, tyranny, brutality, and general daily conflict we all go through, the nonesensical stuff. I think I read somewhere that we’ve been in some state of war every single day for the past 5,000 years of recorded history. I still can’t believe we’ve had the deadliest human conflict in our history just under 80 years ago! Even with all the technological advancements and medical advancements, the basic quality of the human mind hasn’t changed; we keep doing the same shit over and over again.

We’ve been brought up on war so our psychology is based on war, on conflict. This seems to manifest in a hundred different colorful ways and we give different names to them, but basically man seems to always be in some level of unease, anxiety, and at odds with either himself or something else. We call this human nature or God’s will and keep going with it. It was clear to me that man does not and has never fully understood himself. Even all the psychologists — make no mistake I mean all of them, anyone who calls himself a psychologist- lacks sanity for he does not understand himself and therefore cannot help another human being totally. He might be able to recondition a man to be relatively more peaceful, so as to be functional in our culture; however this does not at all solve the problem of human conflict. The seeds and roots of conflict remain while the branches are reorganized.

I’ll expand on all this at a later time. Maybe