Are we addicted to ourselves.Or more precisely - our image of ourselves.
Can we also be addicted to our own limited images and definitions of God?
If addictions are strengthened by the ever-increasing usage of paths within our brain (Or gut - whichever trail you're following) - can the same addictions be formed to shape our images of God, ourselves or others within society?
Are many racists, sexists, or homophobes addicted to their belief systems?
Are religious zealots only repeating memes with which they have been inculcated?
Are our addictions the driving forces behind our myriad of maladies?
6 comments:
I would imagine that we are addicted to ourselves. Perhaps those that suicide are the ones that do not have that addiction and so have less to tie them to existence.
Are we addicted to belief systems or just more comfortable staying with what we know rather than challenging ourselves to look at things more laterally. Is it that if we challenge ourselves we will see what we don't like and so we keep it hidden.
@ doll - But don't addicts know that their behaviors are harmful?
Don't they know that they are wrong?
But they choose to act the same way because it somehow feels good to harm oneself.
Suicide is odd.
Many addicts attempt it because they can't stand being ruled by something.
Many see suicide as the only means of escape from their self-imposed prisons.
Peep this magne - page 64 - Identification and Energy.
I suspect that we only view addictions as harmful when we are socialized to think so.
In the western pacific Kava is a widely imbibed substance that is culturally significant. But in the west that use is viewed as addiction and the medical sequelae are frowned upon.
So god and religion might be viewed as addiction in a person socialized to view such things with skepticism but not as an addiction in societies where it is the norm.
@ doll - Kava? Aw.. now you're talking brohammas' language.
I'd call them obsessions rather than addictions.
Post a Comment