Everybody Is Connected
PAGE IN PROGRESS
What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
What you see here is a page of my hypertext book Me, Looking for Meaning. Initially empty, it will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
"I often find myself thinking about people whose names I will never know, whose names did not enter the history books, but that have lived, loved, suffered and were happy and left their imprint on the world in ways nobody will ever know. These are the majority of people who have lived on the Planet Earth. Even their lives were not what’s called “remarkable”, they still mattered in no small way. (Picture of pre-historic hand)
Six degrees of separation
Global village
its not the same as « everybody knows each other » - the maximum size of natural social network is 150 individuals
Mushroom picking - connecting to hunter-gathers of the past (mushroom picking with my grandfather)
Quote from Cezanne: "In my opinion, one does not substitute oneself for the past, one just adds a new link" (1904).
connected through trauma
» But traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems. Trauma affects not only those who are directly exposed to it, but also those around them. »
(from The Body Keeps the Score, prologue), also add to Vicious Circle of Violence
Everybody and everything is connected: we are made of the stardust. [write out the full text?]
Each individual exists on an extreme micro level of society, unable to fully comprehend the macro level , but these two levels are intimately interconnected-microlevel is shaped by macro level and vs versa
We think we know names of people who "made history", who influenced other, but that's not true. Influence is like ripples that are visible only in a localized area, then then seem to disappear, but they have left their mark, even if you do not know about them.
You know Hobbit, but you may not know Babbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(novel)
You know Rodin but you may not know Camille Claudel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel
Examples of ideas that were neutral or could be helpful but they infuenced somebodu who ended up hurting others: Nietzsche > Hitler
About this project: Start page
Six degrees of separation
Global village
its not the same as « everybody knows each other » - the maximum size of natural social network is 150 individuals
Mushroom picking - connecting to hunter-gathers of the past (mushroom picking with my grandfather)
Quote from Cezanne: "In my opinion, one does not substitute oneself for the past, one just adds a new link" (1904).
connected through trauma
» But traumatic experiences do leave traces, whether on a large scale (on our histories and cultures) or close to home, on our families, with dark secrets being imperceptibly passed down through generations. They also leave traces on our minds and emotions, on our capacity for joy and intimacy, and even on our biology and immune systems. Trauma affects not only those who are directly exposed to it, but also those around them. »
(from The Body Keeps the Score, prologue), also add to Vicious Circle of Violence
Everybody and everything is connected: we are made of the stardust. [write out the full text?]
Each individual exists on an extreme micro level of society, unable to fully comprehend the macro level , but these two levels are intimately interconnected-microlevel is shaped by macro level and vs versa
We think we know names of people who "made history", who influenced other, but that's not true. Influence is like ripples that are visible only in a localized area, then then seem to disappear, but they have left their mark, even if you do not know about them.
You know Hobbit, but you may not know Babbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(novel)
You know Rodin but you may not know Camille Claudel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel
Examples of ideas that were neutral or could be helpful but they infuenced somebodu who ended up hurting others: Nietzsche > Hitler
About this project: Start page
