The surprising benefits of not taking action but letting life wash over you, by GrantHBrennerMD
Logic is wonderful, and reason is a powerful tool. Yet there are times in life when they are insufficient, aside from the sometimes problematic effect they have on how we view emotions. Sometimes we need to"turn off the targeting computer" and get in touch with deeper experiences which logic may flee from in terror. Negative capability decenters"irritable reaching after fact and reason," empowering us to tap into primal forces.
If the world could slow down and reflect, exercising greater ensemble negative capability, perhaps we could handle thorny problems like, scarce resource allocation and resource development, disease prevention and management, inequity, and a slew of other evolutionary sticking points more effectively.
"Conflicts of interest between man and man are resolved, in principle, by recourse to violence. It is the same in the animal kingdom, from which man cannot claim exclusion; nevertheless men are also prone to conflicts of opinion, touching, on occasion, the loftiest peaks of abstract thought, which seem to call for settlement by quite another method. This refinement is, however, a late development."1. [ . . .
Many consider it a developmental accomplishment to become completely open to one’s own experiences. We observe the processes of our own minds, and all the feelings and barriers which arise when we are explicitly instructed to say everything as it occurs without self-censorship.
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