We live in a world driven by processes of evolution and development. Our human beings, individual and communal, have been created and shaped by more specific processes of evolution and development. In particular, our minds are shaped as we respond actively to reality in its concrete and abstract realms and aspects. Some Medieval thinkers made … [Read more…]
Our delusions about the world being subject to understanding by an out-of-the-box human mind and our allied delusions about human control over that world lead us into various specific errors. We ignore what doesn’t fit into our favorite schemes, that is, we are blind and deaf to what doesn’t fit into our delusionary schemes of … [Read more…]
We modern human beings have illusions of control; as a consequence, even our ways of approaching human freedom look not so much different from the ways of implementing systems of hierarchical control, even totalitarianism. We think to have some sort of great power over reality, if only in ways of thought and attitude. On the … [Read more…]