There’s so much more to this metaphor. Biblical metaphors or ‘living water’ and also, as Michelle Garner pointed out to me, tears themselves are a restoration of living water. Crying is plumbing?
As much as I respect people gathering around whatever common traits they share if that helps, some labels and categorizations come across as awkward and even counterproductive to me.
Highly sensitive people are defined in relation to what? (There's obviously an implicit comparative parameter engrained in this term).
In relation to a brutalized norm or standard?
Is brutality and brutalization the human standard? And then there's a bunch of 'us', poor little things that are so sensitive, and oh my (or hence?) so innocent? and even (hence?)... So foolish?... Bullocks.
I'd say we may agree that the world is fucked up. Humankind is (pretty?) fucked up. And we continue perpetuating the idea that a disconnected, brutalized, psychopathic and basically fucked up existential stand/mindset that has fucked up the planet is actually the standard for humanity. Hence, those who are connected, empathic and sensitive are set apart in a box for ''unsual' beings.
It certainly seems to be the case now. Likewise it certainly wasn't ALWAYS the case. And it certainly ISN'T the intrinsic standard for human species, let alone for the overall landscape of species.
Should we keep it up, in a few years time someone caring about someone else's head being chopped off while they walk around the park will be considered highly sensitive or even better: 'pathologically sensitive'.
We really are going/gone bananas, sorry.
As individuals and human species we become what we feed from a vast array of constant possibilities in a very wide bright-dark continuum (both Hobbes and Rousseau were right). We create processes and trends that crystallize in narratives about what we are and what we label as 'standard', that in turn normalize and perpetuate the very processes themselves: 'that's all there is', 'this is what we are'. Obviously not. We're self-destroying ourselves and destroying the overall planet. This is certainly NOT the standard for ANY species n this world. We wouldn't even be here -and we won't be if we continue perpetuating the idea that brutalization is human species' standard.
By reifying and essentializing time and space-bound constructs we perpetuate their false innate nature. What we choose to feed and nurture grows and once it gets into motion and takes hold in the field it can seem to be The (only) standard.
Creating affinity groups, practices and platforms that help each other and the collective navigate (and heal) a brutalized world sounds great, though.
There’s so much more to this metaphor. Biblical metaphors or ‘living water’ and also, as Michelle Garner pointed out to me, tears themselves are a restoration of living water. Crying is plumbing?
As much as I respect people gathering around whatever common traits they share if that helps, some labels and categorizations come across as awkward and even counterproductive to me.
Highly sensitive people are defined in relation to what? (There's obviously an implicit comparative parameter engrained in this term).
In relation to a brutalized norm or standard?
Is brutality and brutalization the human standard? And then there's a bunch of 'us', poor little things that are so sensitive, and oh my (or hence?) so innocent? and even (hence?)... So foolish?... Bullocks.
I'd say we may agree that the world is fucked up. Humankind is (pretty?) fucked up. And we continue perpetuating the idea that a disconnected, brutalized, psychopathic and basically fucked up existential stand/mindset that has fucked up the planet is actually the standard for humanity. Hence, those who are connected, empathic and sensitive are set apart in a box for ''unsual' beings.
It certainly seems to be the case now. Likewise it certainly wasn't ALWAYS the case. And it certainly ISN'T the intrinsic standard for human species, let alone for the overall landscape of species.
Should we keep it up, in a few years time someone caring about someone else's head being chopped off while they walk around the park will be considered highly sensitive or even better: 'pathologically sensitive'.
We really are going/gone bananas, sorry.
As individuals and human species we become what we feed from a vast array of constant possibilities in a very wide bright-dark continuum (both Hobbes and Rousseau were right). We create processes and trends that crystallize in narratives about what we are and what we label as 'standard', that in turn normalize and perpetuate the very processes themselves: 'that's all there is', 'this is what we are'. Obviously not. We're self-destroying ourselves and destroying the overall planet. This is certainly NOT the standard for ANY species n this world. We wouldn't even be here -and we won't be if we continue perpetuating the idea that brutalization is human species' standard.
By reifying and essentializing time and space-bound constructs we perpetuate their false innate nature. What we choose to feed and nurture grows and once it gets into motion and takes hold in the field it can seem to be The (only) standard.
Creating affinity groups, practices and platforms that help each other and the collective navigate (and heal) a brutalized world sounds great, though.