When you give an explanation.

This is the tenth in a series of posts reflec­ting on the gene­ral decline of civi­li­ty. These posts should be read in order of publi­ca­tion. Star­ting with num­ber six, for example, would make no sense to the rea­der. Hap­py reading!

You may be won­de­ring why I’m tal­king about road safe­ty? Well, that cer­tain­ly requires an expla­na­tion. In this day and age, we all have to fight that lit­tle some­thing inside of us that puts the ani­mal in us first. It is a part of us, and mind you, naming it as a sepa­rate enti­ty is just a meta­phor to make it easier to talk about, but it is us we are tal­king about, not ano­ther per­son, not a demon that pos­sesses us, etc.

So, this part of us can be stron­ger or wea­ker depen­ding on the situa­tion, depen­ding on the indi­vi­dual, and our mea­sures of control­ling this per­so­na­li­ty also vary. It is true to say that cer­tain models exist, but as in most models in psy­cho­lo­gy, they are use­ful for stu­dying the beha­viors of an indi­vi­dual, for clas­si­fying them, for fin­ding solu­tions through cer­tain ave­nues, but they are not appli­cable in the same way a model of archi­tec­tu­ral phy­sics would be.

Whe­ther or not you are inter­es­ted in the rules of civi­li­ty is a good thing in itself, as long as it doesn’t become a dog­ma to be applied in order to satis­fy an obses­sive need for abso­lute order. People and their well-being must remain the target.

To be continued…

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on May 25, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny