Re: Idealism
extra medium wrote:What is it in us that makes us want a different world?
The dissatisfaction with this one?
Quote:Where does this come from?
Confusion, complexity, chaos: and the subsequent desire for organization.
Quote:Is our idealism part of us, or does it come from somewhere else? Sometimes I have this flash of idealism come into my brain, and its almost as if its coming from somewhere else. That idealism is not me. It is not coming from me. Or is it?
If you're a supernaturalist, idealist, theist, etc., I can understand this mentality. But I happen to believe this kind of thinking is screwy, no offense.
Quote:What is it in us, where does this idealism spring from? Where is the fountainhead of idealism located in us? What is that?
"Idealism" is produced by the same intellectual mechanisms as those that produce the desire to organize your life, or clean your bedroom. There's hardly anything profound about its origins. It's the mind's attempt to categaorize and formulate the entire world, just as it would the words on a page or pictures on a screen: it's the manifestation of the mind's organizational characteristics applied to humanity at large.
In other words, one could say Idealism is just a world-based opinion. "Where do opinions come from?" - Virtually the same question you're asking.