Self-actualization can spin out as a subject to something the size of a useless self-help textbook or you can reduce it to what Socrates said, "Know thyself."
Pamela Geller is the case study lately as some think she's stupid and naive but I don't buy that as I firmly believe she knows what she is doing. What she doesn't know is why she is doing it.
How did it come that many in the world today define themselves in terms of those they hate. It goes completely past the thinking of such people that they come to be the object of their scorn through that act of hatred. Self-actualization becomes impossible because the original self gets so distorted that it gets lost in these hateful weeds.
For example, American and Muslim fighters in the Middle East. Neither of them show any kind of morality (i.e. they kill people) and there is little to no difference between them. They're killers and that's what they were sent to do. That they don't understand it's wrong is shown, maybe best, in the movie, "A Few Good Men," as the distortion of patriotism, law, and defense of the United States are used to justify murdering an innocent man.
Colonel Nathan Jessup: You can't HANDLE the truth!
Well, sir, yes I can. One thing I know immediately is you're not it.
Another example is abortion protestors as it's impossible to separate those supporting and those opposed because their faces are all contorted with hatred for each other and they do nothing but scream across the street. As we've seen, in over fifty years of this they have accomplished nothing. Hatred and learning are in hard opposition to one another.
The development of self has been an off-and-on conversation with some friends, particularly as it applies to music, but, for Jean Piaget, it was the subject of his seminal work in cognitive development. (WIKI: Piaget's theory of cognitive development)
There is substantial evidence of the arrest of cognitive development by enduring hatred from the individual as growth is impossible in the face of it. Pamela Geller is a one-dimensional organism as she needs only to satisfy her need to present her duckface and be somebody. That alone is not sufficient to generate enough attention or she would just go to Facebook so instead she comes up with a mission. There's not enough imagination to come up with anything significant so that leaves the last refuge of the incompetent: let's hate something together. It's the same mechanism as Marine LePen and any number of second-rate despots the world has known ... and usually hated.
Note: Piaget's focus was in the initial development of cognitive awareness in infants rather than adults. If you really want to shrink Pamela Geller, you'll need to find what hit her during that period as I'd bet money, if I had any, that you will find some kind of abuse during her early years.
What comes for her now is an illusion of actualization as all manner of people support the hatred but they're damaged in the same way and are useless to her in helping her toward maturation of any kind. Nevertheless, this is her posse, band of uneducated, unwashed ne'er-do-wells though they may be.
The biggest problem for those who would rather watch NASCAR on Sunday afternoons than hunting Muslims for sport is that the organization Pamela Geller builds around her is precisely the mechanism that will prevent her from ever leaving it. This is not only a mission but she recognizes her utter lack of value without it. She has no belief she could ever achieve this kind of 'success' doing anything else and likely it's true as there's no sign of original thinking so she would have to fade back and become, gasp, an actual human being. Instead, she's being fueled by narcissistic addiction now. There's no other way she can get this kind of attention and, as P.T. Barnum once said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity so long as they spell your name right."
That doesn't show much awareness of Hitler's name but generally he's right. I'm aware that even mentioning Geller's name will, in her view, assist her as I will alienate people and they will come to her. This is not something I overlook but rather I encourage as nothing will destroy her more effectively than success. Her own hate will consume her and, frankly, I'll just kick back to watch. It's all part of the case study.
Pamela Geller is the case study lately as some think she's stupid and naive but I don't buy that as I firmly believe she knows what she is doing. What she doesn't know is why she is doing it.
How did it come that many in the world today define themselves in terms of those they hate. It goes completely past the thinking of such people that they come to be the object of their scorn through that act of hatred. Self-actualization becomes impossible because the original self gets so distorted that it gets lost in these hateful weeds.
For example, American and Muslim fighters in the Middle East. Neither of them show any kind of morality (i.e. they kill people) and there is little to no difference between them. They're killers and that's what they were sent to do. That they don't understand it's wrong is shown, maybe best, in the movie, "A Few Good Men," as the distortion of patriotism, law, and defense of the United States are used to justify murdering an innocent man.
Colonel Nathan Jessup: You can't HANDLE the truth!
Well, sir, yes I can. One thing I know immediately is you're not it.
Another example is abortion protestors as it's impossible to separate those supporting and those opposed because their faces are all contorted with hatred for each other and they do nothing but scream across the street. As we've seen, in over fifty years of this they have accomplished nothing. Hatred and learning are in hard opposition to one another.
The development of self has been an off-and-on conversation with some friends, particularly as it applies to music, but, for Jean Piaget, it was the subject of his seminal work in cognitive development. (WIKI: Piaget's theory of cognitive development)
There is substantial evidence of the arrest of cognitive development by enduring hatred from the individual as growth is impossible in the face of it. Pamela Geller is a one-dimensional organism as she needs only to satisfy her need to present her duckface and be somebody. That alone is not sufficient to generate enough attention or she would just go to Facebook so instead she comes up with a mission. There's not enough imagination to come up with anything significant so that leaves the last refuge of the incompetent: let's hate something together. It's the same mechanism as Marine LePen and any number of second-rate despots the world has known ... and usually hated.
Note: Piaget's focus was in the initial development of cognitive awareness in infants rather than adults. If you really want to shrink Pamela Geller, you'll need to find what hit her during that period as I'd bet money, if I had any, that you will find some kind of abuse during her early years.
What comes for her now is an illusion of actualization as all manner of people support the hatred but they're damaged in the same way and are useless to her in helping her toward maturation of any kind. Nevertheless, this is her posse, band of uneducated, unwashed ne'er-do-wells though they may be.
The biggest problem for those who would rather watch NASCAR on Sunday afternoons than hunting Muslims for sport is that the organization Pamela Geller builds around her is precisely the mechanism that will prevent her from ever leaving it. This is not only a mission but she recognizes her utter lack of value without it. She has no belief she could ever achieve this kind of 'success' doing anything else and likely it's true as there's no sign of original thinking so she would have to fade back and become, gasp, an actual human being. Instead, she's being fueled by narcissistic addiction now. There's no other way she can get this kind of attention and, as P.T. Barnum once said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity so long as they spell your name right."
That doesn't show much awareness of Hitler's name but generally he's right. I'm aware that even mentioning Geller's name will, in her view, assist her as I will alienate people and they will come to her. This is not something I overlook but rather I encourage as nothing will destroy her more effectively than success. Her own hate will consume her and, frankly, I'll just kick back to watch. It's all part of the case study.
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