Misc & "Social Engneering" topics

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>>>>Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.<<
I agree to this. Well put

>>Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist<<

My be not cities but industries are the problems. cities were there since harappa.

>>Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion<<

You might have something here.

>>Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in visual speed<<

I am not sure if slow mo has to do so much with emotion, may be with focus. I think we don't just use slo mo just for emotional scenes but also for dramatic or love scenes. There could be 2 reasons for this, 1) At regular speed we may miss some of the features on the screen. In slow mo we are able to catch everything, expression of eyes, face, environment, body language etc, at regular speed we might just catch any one of those features of a scene. 2) Slow Mo replicates how we feel when we are focused. When we are danger, eg hanging from a cliff, see a car rushing towards us, etc we see events happening very slowly, it might have less to do with emotions but more to do with heightened sense of focus at times like these.


>>(1) A THINKING MIND CANNOT INTENSIFY / SUSTAIN ANY EMOTION.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is
particularly true for all painful emotions.

(2) In a society in which visual ( verbal ) speed and breathing- rates
are fast , pain / remorse / empathy cannot be experienced. It is
impossible.<<

I do see your point. That if in day to day life if you are busy/fast, going from one thinking process to another, you do not feel any deep or subtle emotional feel rather mostly feel physical sensations like touch, etc. we do become like machines.


>>Today there is non-stop verbal processing inside the mind through print and electronic media ( newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, computer etc…) as a result of which the verbal content & speed has increased thousands of times.<<

I think that is a great observation. Not sure I agree with your conclusions though. I think the culprit may not be the speed but the volume of the contents we are consuming. Since we want to consume a lot we consume it fast. Rather then the other way around. Its is like trying to finish 10 different ice cream rather than picking just one that one may like the most and enjoying it with ease.

>> In a thinking ( scientific / industrial ) society emotion itself becomes extinct<<
I think emotions do not become extinct but they get postponed. It is the act of separating your karma from dharma. Working with your minds and hearts eyes closed for a certain time. Than take a break and cater to the need of heart. This happens especially in west where people may do some acts for fulfillment of body and some for the fulfillment of soul. Most do not do one act that would fulfill their body and sole.
This is a typical Western - warrior mentality. Where you go on the war/work with single objective ignoring common sense ignoring pain. The eastern–social mentality on the other hand is to do what satisfies the soul and mind.

You have some keen observations. Good to talk about it.