02-02-2021, 10:30 AM
Moralization has been on my mind, as a little topic in itself, and having a lot to do with responding to catalyst very generally. How people relate to old things and respond to new things often has moralizing flavor in it when it's an "issue" or "challenge" in a psychological sense.
In my experience, moralizing always automatically increases egotism (as in sureness of having THE right standard of judgment) when submerged in it or rooted in a view connected to it. I think moralization without at least a little tunnel-vision may be impossible for the human brain (and chimpanzees do it too, making it much more earthy than spiritual as a thing in itself).
Sometimes, I find moralization to be like a fog which comes and goes, transiently obscuring mental vision when matters heat up. Dissipating the fog isn't mainly about the emotions but rather the perspective connected to it.
It can be a great idea to ask which moralizing is really worth it, really having a worthwhile point to it. From time to time, something which used to matter in a moral sense can be outgrown as a concern, a larger field of vision gaining prominence, with the effect of dropping a great dead weight holding down both mind and heart when it happens. Though what people lose concern with and to what extent and in what ways, may be inseparable from the most personal aspects of learning and where existential questions ultimately lead.
In my experience, moralizing always automatically increases egotism (as in sureness of having THE right standard of judgment) when submerged in it or rooted in a view connected to it. I think moralization without at least a little tunnel-vision may be impossible for the human brain (and chimpanzees do it too, making it much more earthy than spiritual as a thing in itself).
Sometimes, I find moralization to be like a fog which comes and goes, transiently obscuring mental vision when matters heat up. Dissipating the fog isn't mainly about the emotions but rather the perspective connected to it.
It can be a great idea to ask which moralizing is really worth it, really having a worthwhile point to it. From time to time, something which used to matter in a moral sense can be outgrown as a concern, a larger field of vision gaining prominence, with the effect of dropping a great dead weight holding down both mind and heart when it happens. Though what people lose concern with and to what extent and in what ways, may be inseparable from the most personal aspects of learning and where existential questions ultimately lead.