11 Years Ago

Darin Stevenson updated his status.

Apr 23, 2014 1:19:26 pm

Intelligence and memory are most easily and profoundly developed in circumstances of deep mutual concern, enthusiasm, attention and purpose. The family, team and tribe are instances of suitable paradigms. The benefits of purposeful membership in a group are further magnified to the degree that nature and other living places and beings are directly and compassionately involved. But most of what our cultures and economies present us with is the opposite: fictions of membership for which neither our intelligence, attention or memory are required or valued. Our minds and humanity are at best poorly connotated by these seeming necessities. We germinated our original cognitive habits and the associated assets in families and groups… with and for each other. For purposes true to our humanity and nature. To feel we must then use them for fictions is insulting, and demeans the potentials we might otherwise develop in a way we may find debilitating or stifling. We must therefore learn to reforge such groups as will challenge and fulfill us in this regard… in every generation and at every age.