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When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what life ought to be, what a good man is, how to live, and so on. If we are especially sensitive it seems more than puzzling, it is disheartening. What most people usually do is to follow one person's ideas and then another's depending on who looms largest on one's horizon at the time. The one with the deepest voice, the strongest appearance, the most authority and success, is usually the one who gets our momentary allegiance; and we try to pattern our ideals after him. But as life goes on we get a perspective on this and all these different versions of truth become a little pathetic. Each person thinks that he has the formula for triumphing over life's limitations and knows with authority what it means to be a man, and he usually tries to win a following for his particular patent. Today we know that people try so hard to win converts for their point of view because it is more than merely an outlook on life: it is an immortality formula. #ErnestBecker, #thedenialofdeath https://www.instagram.com/p/CMGRlV0D3-j/?igshid=3u45kxlo30v8

Ernest Becker

Artık herkesin bildiği üzere bir sermaye uygarlığı olan kapitalizmin insanlara kazandırabileceği yeni bir şey yok. Kapitalist ilişki biçimi insani, toplumsal, ekonomik ve ekolojik sorunları daha da derinleştirerek yola devam ediyor. İnsanoğlu bu gidişata bir gün dur diyecek mutlaka fakat ekonomi toparlansa, toplumsal yaşam herkes için yaşanılır bir hale gelse bile ekolojik olarak açılan tahribatı onarma şansımız olmayacak. Birçok ülkede ekolojik krize karşı çözümler üretilmeye, alternatif yaşam biçimleri, üretim ve tüketim tarzları geliştirilmeye çalışılıyor. Peki, insanlar ceplerini doldurmak yerine niçin böyle şeylerle uğraşıyorlar? Çünkü yaşadığımız habitat yok olursa biz de yok olacağız. Çünkü iklim krizleri, su krizleri, salgın hastalıklar önümüzdeki yıllarda başımızdan eksik olmayacak. Çünkü doğanın kendini yenilemesi ve toparlaması iyimser bir tahminle yüz yıllar sürecek. Elbette bireysel tasarruflarımız, dikkat ve özenimiz önemli fakat iklim krizi ile baş edecek olanlar kesinlikle sermaye hırsıyla hareket edenler değil. Yeni yılda direksiyonu sermayenin elinden almak için harekete geçmemiz lazım! Kök Salma Alışkanlığımız Yıllar evvel Avrupa Birliği içinde ekonomik kriz çalkantıları baş gösterdiğinde İtalya’nın desteklenmesi icap etmişti. Hani geçtiğimiz aylarda AB, İtalya’ya sırt çevirdi ve Çin desteği geldi ya. İşte Çin desteği çok kestirilemese de AB’nin İtalya’ya sırt çevireceği o günlerde tahmin ediliyordu. Niye mi? Çünkü AB’nin büyük güçleri İtalyan Read the full article

Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

I solution || Silent retreats . . . the upshot of all this is that personal heroism through individuation is a very daring venture precisely because it separates the person out of comfortable "beyonds." It takes a strength and courage the average man doesn't have and couldn't even understand — as Jung so well points out.— The most terrifying burden of the creature is to be isolated, which is what happens in individuation: one separates himself out of the herd. This move exposes the person to the sense of being completely crushed and annihilated because he sticks out so much, has to carry so much in himself. These are the risks when the person begins to fashion consciously and critically his own framework of heroic self-reference. Here is precisely the definition of the artist type, or the creative type generally. We have crossed a threshold into a new type of response to man's situation. The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it. This holds true for all creative people to a greater or lesser extent, but it is especially obvious with the artist. Existence becomes a problem that needs an ideal answer; but when you no longer accept the collective solution to the problem of existence, then you must fashion your own. The work of art is, then, the ideal answer of the creative type to the problem of existence as he takes it in — not only the existence of the external world, but especially his own: who he is as a painfully separate person with nothing shared to lean on. He has to answer to the burden of his extreme individuation, his so painful isolation. He wants to know how to earn immortality as a result of his own unique gifts. His creative work is at the same time the expression of his heroism and the justification of it. It is his "private religion" — as Rank put it.— Its uniqueness gives him personal immortality; it is his own "beyond" and not that of others..." ]] the creative solution #ernestbecker #individuation #artist #photography #blackandwhite #isolation (at Me, Myself and I) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB9E4fajH_I/?igshid=1siqquy425vl0