When hormonal aggrandizement is the organizing principle
If you watched FX's 'Shogun'... < Pi-edPiper > 2024-11-06 09:37
.., you'd have witnessed a characterization of human nature that goes back to Hindu and Buddhist teaching. That characterization was about the blind spot vanity of those seeking the satiable pleasures of the present, versus those [the ultimate Shogun] whose motivations were to the disciplines of a principle.
That principle's imperatives was to a holistic, even if not totally altruistic, ends. Most to all of us are caught in the matrix of having our cognitive, serotonin fix from the tangibles in our immediate spatial time frame. The future long-term consequences are seen as the incidental price were 'willing-to-pay' , though not well defined. This is an imperfect way to live life, but the over-used mindset for life being so cyclically familiar over the generations