THE PURPOSE AND GOALS OF THIS BLOG
LIVE WISELY, DEEPLY, AND COMPASSIONATELY
Investigating the Identification and Application of Adaptive Values to Human Interactions and Societies
and
Exploring the Skills Needed To Be Wise, Mature, and Compassionate (and Therefore Emotionally Healthy)
The personal and collective problems of human beings are distressingly obvious. Despite our clearly successful adaptation as a species to life on this planet, we continue to suffer significant and often unnecessary psychological pain, and we continue to bicker, deceive, and harm each other in our collective life. The purpose of this blog (and of my website www.livewiselydeeply.com) is the alleviation of some of this suffering and fighting, through clarifying discussion of the identification and application of adaptive values to human interactions and societies and through elucidation of the skills necessary in order for us individually to be wise, mature, and compassionate. I hope to demonstrate that we can recognize values that promote good emotional health as well as peaceful and cooperative relationships and that we can recognize that it is only our individual reluctance to live by those values that prevents us from achieving more cooperative and peaceful societal functioning. I will champion the concept that the concepts and values important for gaining wisdom and maturity and being compassionate can be stated clearly and in a way that make them seem desirable to cultivate in our individual lives. Adopting these concepts and values will move us toward being emotionally healthy and living lives with the greatest possible satisfaction, contentment, fulfillment, (It will take some time to put all of this out in small, weekly blogs, of course, but more comprehensive statements of the same can be found on my website.)
On this blog, then, you will find—
- statements about a philosophy of life that will maximize cooperation, love, and peace in our lives (and explanations of why some other philosophies will not lead to these ends)
- illustrations of unnecessary individual psychological suffering and of unnecessary fighting and violence between us
- explanation of the qualities needed for a person to be wise, mature, and compassionate (and therefore to be emotionally healthy) and discussion of how to pursue those qualities
- adaptive attitudes and solutions to age-old human problems, such as painful self-esteem, frustration, disappointment, rejection, anger, and death!
Every philosophical or therapeutic system has goals in terms of the kind of people or the kind of life it wishes to produce. The choice of principles here is aimed at producing loving, cooperative, self-aware, self-confident, empathic, and compassionate people. This describes a way of being and an existence that has the greatest chance of maximizing fulfillment, contentment, and satisfaction, and of minimizing conflict, hatred, and violence.
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