One Or Two Thoughts From Happinesstan

Published June 30, 2018 · Updated July 6, 2022

Hello again fellas.

I appreciate that previous stream of garbage probably doesn’t do a very good job of explaining my position. The trouble with moments of clarity, is that they rarely last long enough to actual compose them in literal form. Therefore I suggest you prepare yourself for a scattergun explanation over the coming days. Apologies in advance.

So what am I actually talking about? Well, it seems to me, and this approach has made it literally impossible to not enjoy the show, that a central question of the show is how story-telling plays a role in the development of, I feel I want to say consciousness, but I’m sure I mean conscience. But I also think I might be referring to collective consciousness. Maybe it will all come out in the wash. But for the purpose of my diatribe I will try to stick to the question of how it impacts on the individual’s free-will.

Ask yourself, are your expectations of the show justified? Why should the show conform to the rules of story-telling? Those rules were devised centuries ago, at a time that humanity was not at it’s best, and yet our perception of human nature has not changed too much since those times. Have we really changed so little? One thing that hasn’t changed much is a collective acceptance of good and evil as defined in those texts.

That begs the question, can a human demonstrate free-will, if it conflicts with the accepted definitions of acceptable human behaviour? We collectively know it is wrong to kill, but as individuals we never question why it is wrong to kill…

I’m losing the clarity, but I don’t want to end on the suggestion that killing is okay, I’m not trying to justify murder. I’ll leave you with this for now. In a life or death situation is it right to kill? Can one express the free-will necessary to overcome centuries of programming in order to survive, which the show suggests is our only drive. Without free-will one is paralysed by an ethical dilemma. With free-will, you kill so you can survive to ponder the question.

Okay starting to dribble now, so I’ll leave you with this to consider:

We have for a long time compared the human mind to a computer. Well if we compare the contemporary mind to the contemporary computer, we now have a bicameral mind. Why? Well we have the Solid State drive on which we store our operating system for faster access to a window, through which to view the world, and we have the other one which the operating system manages for us.

Not sure if I’ve made anything clearer, and I now realise I’ve given myself a lot more to re-read to avoid repetition. But hey.

Just send me a message saying STOP! if this drives you crazy.

Stan

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