michaeldee (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} michaeldee) wrote,@ 2008-09-30 10:21:00 |
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the Heart of Darkness
What drives the narcissism of homo sapiens?
My work on inner body sensing is closely related to my concern for a post-Marx social analysis. Marxism always asked the question, "What is wrong here?" and always got the wrong answer. (See http://www.thesecularspirit.com/epitaph
But the question remains. I place the answer in the narcissism of elites. This is the heart of darkness that casts its shadow over history. The law of nature up to now has been that the most narcissistic, the most self-involved, the most insensitive to the needs of others are the ones that gain control over material resources. This law of nature goes back eons, and was survival mechanism when the numbers of homo sapiens were very small and their technology very primitive. But now that there are six billion of us on this planet, and our technology is incalculably powerful, this "law of nature" is also a law of self-destruction.
For thirty years I have been asking myself, "What drives this essential narcissism of homo sapiens?" Long ago it was clear that it had something to do with early childhood experiences. Then slowly over time, I gradually identified the essential nature of what I came to call "the DNA of culture". I locate it in "the original imprint", a wound on the human psyche provisionally identified by Alice Miller’s work on "poisonous pedagogy".
So, there is a deep primordial basis for self-doubt, insatiable greed and permanent paranoia in homo sapiens. Is there any "cure" for it? I think so. I think it’s in the inner body sensing work that I stole from Hakomi and The Focusing Institute.
ibs and the heart of darkness
What drives the narcissism of homo sapiens?
My work on inner body sensing is closely related to my concern for a post-Marx social analysis. Marxism always asked the question, "What is wrong here?" and always got the wrong answer. (See http://www.thesecularspirit.com/epitaph
But the question remains. I place the answer in the narcissism of elites. This is the heart of darkness that casts its shadow over history. The law of nature up to now has been that the most narcissistic, the most self-involved, the most insensitive to the needs of others are the ones that gain control over material resources. This law of nature goes back eons, and was survival mechanism when the numbers of homo sapiens were very small and their technology very primitive. But now that there are six billion of us on this planet, and our technology is incalculably powerful, this "law of nature" is also a law of self-destruction.
For thirty years I have been asking myself, "What drives this essential narcissism of homo sapiens?" Long ago it was clear that it had something to do with early childhood experiences. Then slowly over time, I gradually identified the essential nature of what I came to call "the DNA of culture". I locate it in "the original imprint", a wound on the human psyche provisionally identified by Alice Miller’s work on "poisonous pedagogy".
So, there is a deep primordial basis for self-doubt, insatiable greed and permanent paranoia in homo sapiens. Is there any "cure" for it? I think so. I think it’s in the inner body sensing work that I stole from Hakomi and The Focusing Institute.
