Archive for August 3rd, 2006

Truth and Humour

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Category: Culture and Values

For a long, long time I’ve used humour as a way to speak the truth. Unwittingly, ironically, intentionally, curiously, and shrewdly.

Without a sense of humour life is meaningless. No. . . wait . . nothing has meaning anyway.

Don’t we all use humour? Don’t we all have a sense of humour? Don’t we all sense irony and humor (US spelling) in the human condition? Don’t we all see the truth? Nope.

You know how they say the truth is hard to take, and yeah, truth can be hard to take, but lies are harder to take.

The truth is really what this web site is all about. Finding truth, recognizing truth, allowing truth, thinking truth, being truth, letting go of the truth.

Is Dave Chappelle perpetuating racist stereotypes? Jon Stewart? Stephen Colbert? Monty Python? Richard Simmons?

Using the Chappelle example, the truth is that Dave is simply observing reality and in so doing raising our awareness of the cultural issues and stereotypes we are all hung up on. (Not European, should be “upon which we are hung up”.)

Humour is our only real hope as humour is a visionary perspective that is required to recognize that nothing has meaning without point of view.

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Foundation of Culture

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Category: Culture and Values

Now that we have established a basis for perception we can move forward to the definition of our agreed upon frameworks within which to live.

This is known as values, or in the sum of group values, culture.

An interesting phenomena is culture, and as we break down the basis of all things we can see more clearly the what, why and how of culture and the what, why and how of evolving culture.

The foundation of culture is our values.

Our values come from what appears at first blush to be a complex set of variables but in truth derive from our basic needs and then by extension our basic desires, the electives so to speak, the pleasure affecting pastimes.

We all need clean air, food, water and shelter, the most basic physical needs. (Hazel would probably add companionship to that as well, hard wiring and all, for now let us start with the physical needs literally.)

Why then are these needs still lacking in so many cultures?

Lack of commitment.

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