The impressive thing about habit is that it accustoms the mind to difficult tasks, making them seem almost, almost easy; and even if it does not go that far, it trivializes doing them, something extraordinary in itself. Psychologically, getting used to doing something means doing it with less effort, like switching on an automatic execution mode. And it is only possible to see how beneficial, how powerful a habit is when one breaks it and then tries to do what one used to do naturally. Almost always, the effort needed to pick it up is less than the effort needed to give it up.
Tag: behavior
The 20th Century Does Not Seem…
The 20th century does not seem to have been enough to demonstrate the risk of politicizing philosophy, nor the disasters that result from interpreting the “act” as a political act, or “responsibility” as a principle that claims the individual as a collective agent. The effort to distort thought and use it as a pretext and resource in this modern factory of activism persists, even though it has been proven to produce nothing but destruction. It is unfortunate, but it does not seem to be with less activism that the current activism can be combated.
Intelligence Begins With the Ability…
If, as has been said, intelligence begins with the ability to marvel, it also follows that the more the notion of normality spreads, the more difficult it is for intelligence to manifest itself. In other words: starting with the universe, passing through nature, through society and culminating in the details of everyday life, looking at all of this and seeing it as natural, ordinary, instead of being amazed at the extraordinary succession of factors necessary to generate it, is actually restraining the manifestation of intellect.
In No Way Can the Thirst for Domination…
In no way can the thirst for domination be considered virtuous, although it is a ubiquitous feature of history. Every conceivable reason has been well documented to condemn it, and yet the present century sees it expanding by ever more powerful means, without at least a consensus that it is urgent to curb it, stop it, expose it and subjugate it. Experiencing consequences as obvious and easily perceptible as those we are seeing is something that even animals cannot afford.