Saturday, May 26, 2018

The Human Condition is Solved!

The expression "the Human Condition" has been with us a long time.  Religions have definitive beliefs about the human condition.  Philosophers have provided perspectives, authors have written eloquently about it.  Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" is the poetic masterpiece on the seven stages of living.

There is a humancondition.com website.  Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist who has presented an explanation of the human condition in his 2016 book, FREEDOM:  The End of The Human Condition.  He founded the World Transformation Movement in the 1980's.  His thesis is that humans act angrily because of a battle between instinct and intellect.  The summary of his book is dramatic:


The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we are entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our good and evil-afflicted human condition.  One can read a review of it HERE.  

There is a next generation of writing.  In the New Atlantis article Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature, the article starts with: "The cutting edge of modern science and technology has moved, in its aim, beyond the relief of man’s estate to the elimination of human beings." So the human condition would conclude.

In the google search world, things fall apart very quickly for relevant articles.  "What is the Human Condition" goes to the website homeandgardenideas.com - an answer that would seem targeted to my interests.  Then there is the human condition at Amazon, at Habitat for Humanity, or the tour dates and concerts of the group "This Human Condition".  There are many art events on this topic. And there's the 2018 online catalog available for rock auto.com as a result of searching on the human condition.  

The state of Wisteria this year is less than ideal.  With our cool then warm temperatures, the leaves and flowers are out at the same time, reducing the impact of the purple clusters.

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