Who do you think you are?
May 28, 2024 10:27:59 GMT
Post by Stella on May 28, 2024 10:27:59 GMT
We human beings are so similar to one another it's possible that any one of us could stand in for the next person. So this thing we spend our entire lives working on and creating - My Unique Personality - is a petty bourgeois indulgence and fantasy just like the BMW. Costa coffee and the rest of it. Nobody is really all that special and unique.
Intelligence is special when compared to stupidity or ignorance, but nobody holds the patent on it. I don't believe that intelligence is innate or something you are born with. I'm not a midwife nor do I work in a hospital but I don't believe that any newborn baby is any more intelligent, or any more stupid than the next newborn baby. Intelligence is something that you learn from transforming insight into knowledge. It's not something you're born with, but something which comes from your environment. As I write these words I can feel a few raised eyebrows but I refuse to accept that anyone is more intelligent than anyone else, or conversely, that anyone is more stupid than anyone else.
Everybody starts out the same way. We all start out ignorant, unaware, but curious. This is not necessarily human behaviour. If you let a cat or a dog into a new space, such as a new room, both the cat and dog will check out the space and investigate the environment before deciding whether or not it's comfortable being in that environment. Human beings are no different. Small children get everywhere and get their hands into everything because they're naturally curious about what is going on around them. In fact I'd even go as far to say that small children are far more environmentally aware than most adults simply because they don't have a well developed Ego, they have hardly any life experience, and they're not constantly filtering out stuff through thinking.
I've also never heard a three year old child say, "When I grow up I'm going to work 40 hours a week, pay all my bills on time, and vote for the blue party."
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Intelligence is special when compared to stupidity or ignorance, but nobody holds the patent on it. I don't believe that intelligence is innate or something you are born with. I'm not a midwife nor do I work in a hospital but I don't believe that any newborn baby is any more intelligent, or any more stupid than the next newborn baby. Intelligence is something that you learn from transforming insight into knowledge. It's not something you're born with, but something which comes from your environment. As I write these words I can feel a few raised eyebrows but I refuse to accept that anyone is more intelligent than anyone else, or conversely, that anyone is more stupid than anyone else.
Everybody starts out the same way. We all start out ignorant, unaware, but curious. This is not necessarily human behaviour. If you let a cat or a dog into a new space, such as a new room, both the cat and dog will check out the space and investigate the environment before deciding whether or not it's comfortable being in that environment. Human beings are no different. Small children get everywhere and get their hands into everything because they're naturally curious about what is going on around them. In fact I'd even go as far to say that small children are far more environmentally aware than most adults simply because they don't have a well developed Ego, they have hardly any life experience, and they're not constantly filtering out stuff through thinking.
I've also never heard a three year old child say, "When I grow up I'm going to work 40 hours a week, pay all my bills on time, and vote for the blue party."
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