I too have considered how thoroughly we, through pursuit of academia and higher education, to 'better' our lives have relentlessly intellectualized and analyzed values, beliefs, and traditional paradigms of thought through our scientific frameworks and modern ideologies. I personally am exhausted on deconstructing and agree that its created am emptiness or even barrier from the beauty, honor and depth of creation and the essence of just 'being'. I feel like it's also complex, in that I'm not so sure we should toss out all the values of our ancestors- I don't believe that all the stories have truly been debunked, but it depends of course on which stories were talking about. I believe that there are stories told to us by those in power (and persuaded by particular sciences that are funded and shared in a mainstream way) that influence us on what to believe and what to discount as rubbish non scientific silliness.
I have not seen the movie but your review of it has me interested to check it out.
Really great insight you have here and I appreciate the conclusion to plant new trees...
Thank you @BorntobeintheWild. I hope one day we can get to a place where the smallest moments allow people to form connections. Perhaps even something as small as sitting next to someone on a plane ride and striking a conversation :)
I too have considered how thoroughly we, through pursuit of academia and higher education, to 'better' our lives have relentlessly intellectualized and analyzed values, beliefs, and traditional paradigms of thought through our scientific frameworks and modern ideologies. I personally am exhausted on deconstructing and agree that its created am emptiness or even barrier from the beauty, honor and depth of creation and the essence of just 'being'. I feel like it's also complex, in that I'm not so sure we should toss out all the values of our ancestors- I don't believe that all the stories have truly been debunked, but it depends of course on which stories were talking about. I believe that there are stories told to us by those in power (and persuaded by particular sciences that are funded and shared in a mainstream way) that influence us on what to believe and what to discount as rubbish non scientific silliness.
I have not seen the movie but your review of it has me interested to check it out.
Really great insight you have here and I appreciate the conclusion to plant new trees...
Thank you @BorntobeintheWild. I hope one day we can get to a place where the smallest moments allow people to form connections. Perhaps even something as small as sitting next to someone on a plane ride and striking a conversation :)