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Emotional Blankness
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| Myway |
What? I do not know what I am supposely mean by. But what I am trying to say is the moments when you feel nothing and be upset about it.
When? Emotional blankness may around when you are middle of your life. For more understanding of 'middle of the life', it is basically when you are doing things in your life. They may be like competing with someone else.
Why? People exists with emotions. There are countless emotions we can't stop to think. But people don't have enough time to think about things on themselves. Also, social norms are restrained people's mind.
Who? I can say that I have emotional blankness.
How? Modern people may be in danger of having less emotions than before. They are just trying to survive at their lives. They are pushed to survive on competition. That causes emotional blankness like a machinary. So does I.
Where? The problem is on your heart and you have an answer.
P.S To getting out of your emotional blankness, why don't you do some stuffs like writing the diary, your poem, and talk with your friends and families? You could loose yourself sometimes. It may not kill you. |
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| rabbitjoker |
Great post.
IMO - positive human contact is key to a healthy mind state.
It has become increasingly easy to not have -real- contact these days, however the importance (of real contact) can not be underestimated. |
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| 7-4-7 |
How? Modern people may be in danger of having less emotions than before. They are just trying to survive at their lives. They are pushed to survive on competition. That causes emotional blankness like a machinary. So does I.
This is all so true.
even in my short lifetime communication just took so much longer, bank lines, tied up phone lines to loading times, now everything has no lines, 3 phones lines and everything must take no time. we accomplish everything so quickly nowadays, we communicate at a pace so quickly that it is still foreign to us, communication by phone, pagers, cell, email, instant message and rarely in person. I think we have cut down the amount of time it takes to communicate down so much that we have said it all. Modernity has destroyed our reality so much so that it has streamlined social settings down to seconds.
My mind never has anything left for anything I want to spend my thoughts on. |
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| Irishaddict |
Take a look at "The Corporation" by Joel Bakan. There's also a mini-series based on the book I believe you can get on DVD.
It gives an interesting account of the inner-workings of the 'corporation' and shows how there's a lot of pathetic fallacy at work there. This all helps to explain our disconnectedness with contemporary culture. |
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| amb_ |
Dans ce long linceul
Le reve virtuel
on se fait tres seul
non pas la plus belle
Mais la pire des...
Maladie des sens
cinq sans experiences
innocence des experiences
Plus besoin de connaitre son voisin
Le bouton de toute puissance
Non plus besoin d'etablir des liens
Je fais l'amour a distance...
La vitesse qui resume a rien
Renie ce que c'est d'etre humain
Transporte sans bouger |
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| cap |
Good post, but you just exposed the part of the iceberg ABOVE the water. I will try and further develop your post :)
Western culture is especially known for this "emotional blankness", (but really it can be found everywhere nowadays.)
From what I have seen and experienced, I have concluded the following are some of the reasons we become emotionally dead.
Western culture instills a competitive nature in us from a very young age:
- In school, we are taught that if you don't get an "A" you are "less intelligent" than your other peers
- In school, we learn that to achieve the highest marks possible we have to memorize WHAT other people think, and hence, we rarely think for ourselves. This is because school serves as a part of the capitalism system, in which specialization is the goal and human capital is the result.
- We are taught economics, which, by definition is: how to organize limited resources for unlimited needs. Essentially, we are taught that resources are scarce, including "money", and this causes competition to accumulate resources. Chasing mass amounts of money becomes the drive for getting up each morning, and we soon forget that "money" is just an idea - a notion in our minds - and is really just paper with some designs on it.
- Our mind is clouded with "wants" and subsequent goals that are 90% derived from our "ego's." If you think your mind as a CPU processor, then about 40% of your processing power in any given day is being allocated to trying to realize these bull wants and goals that are all from past conditioning. The more you reduce these wants, the more processing power you open up to live the experience that is being presented right infront of you!
I could go on forever with psychology, philosophy, and spiritually, but that is a good start :) |
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| TrickDaddE |
| I Think you need a good crying session to clense yourself! |
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| cap |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Great post.
IMO - positive human contact is key to a healthy mind state.
It has become increasingly easy to not have -real- contact these days, however the importance (of real contact) can not be underestimated. |
As humans, whether we like to admit it or not, we are a vulnerable species.
WE NEED EACH OTHER.
That is why we all have unique features, because if we were all the same there would be no reason for human contact. |
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