Or so I’m told.
The more that you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses.
This suggests to me a closer look at what part of a human is a social construction. Ok, so people aren’t social constructions, but I reckon the internal dialog is. Is the internal dialog what keeps us grounded in consensus? When I’m having my most mundane of internal dialogs it’s always centered around the idea of ‘me’ and my ‘needs’ in the current environment. which tend to be socially constructed ‘needs.’
To be honest, the internal dialog seems to keep me locked into whatever ‘moment’ i’m having and divides it into two parts – me and the environment.
so what is the aim here?
i think the aim is to obliterate the internal dialog.
of course that doesn’t mean obliterate thoughts or ego, or anything like that. it simply means re-ordering. it’s a habit which just needs to be dropped. The more you talk to yourself, the more you to talk to yourself.
creativity is a habit, the more you engage in creative acts, the more creative you are, and are likely to be in the future. every act of creativity is a catalyst.
one last quote:
It is not through satisfying our needs, as Maslow’s (1999) theory states, but detachment and control of our basic needs that Buddhists are able to self-actualize.
Buddhism provides an alternative view of how creativity is achieved by rejecting individualism and hedonism and by af firming the relatedness of the self to others, nature, and the universe.
Taoism takes another approach to creativity. It states that modern knowledge can act as a barrier to our natural curiosity and creativity. Children are naturally curious and creative but socialization and education can destroy it. For example, children can play for hours bouncing a ball back and for th to an adult, while adults can become bored within minutes. This is because the adult conceptualize the outcome: The ball will be sent back and forth. However, children experience the ball bouncing and they are excited since the ball never bounces the same.
Moreover, the most important part of reality (e.g., a room) is not what we see (i.e., walls and ceiling), but what we do not see (i.e., the empty space surrounded by the walls). Without the empty space, a room would be useless. Science teaches us to focus on what we see and verify, but Taoism teaches us to focus on what is invisible but important.
