Thursday, August 14, 2014

Healthy Humanity

In our struggles in search of: healthy, natural, normal, happy, etc, we have skipped a fundamentally important question.  Health of...?  A normal...what?  What is it that is happy?  

If we have no fundamental definition of what a human-being is, then we have no basis upon which to act to change the circumstances we find ourselves.  

Our medicine, food, economics, architecture, socio-political structure, cultural norms, moral standards, are all facets of society born and built upon the definition of what a healthy human-being (and thus healthy society) is.  If we have no clear definition and/or we are confused about our condition, then the constructs of society will thus be disorientating, confusing, exhausting (and possibly harmful), as seems to be the case in the modern world.  

So long as we are confused about the human condition, is to the extent which we will continue to generate a confusing world in which human-beings find themselves in states of suffering and struggle.  

Thus, the need to find what is 'wrong' in society can relax.  You can only find what is wrong in human society if you know what a normal (healthy) human-being is (you can only know sick if you know healthy).  Therefore, if we are interested in generating a healthy society for human-beings, then the first (and last) question becomes: what is a human-being?  Inclusive in the definition of humanity resides the answer to any question imaginable.  

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