Warning Young Folks: Silence When We Are All Gone

Warning Young Folks: Silence When We Are All Gone


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Prof. Sam Vaknin

People under age 35 are walking dead who live in a dystopian hell.

No higher functions.

No intellectual life.

No interests or hobbies.

No conversation (“flat speech”):
dismissive one-liners with no depth or background.

As dull as drying paint.

Actions don’t matter, the heart matters, motivations matter:

they are negative, you are negative, even if you act positively

and you will be judged negatively.

Change from inside, yourself – and your world will change.

When action ends, you are still stuck with yourself.

Action regulates moods and pleasure, nothing else.

Working on yourself is good project if not tinged with anxiety

or negative emotions like pain aversion avoidance envy wish

to show off grandiosity or fear

(improve, change, reach for goals, modify)

not good driver.

Outcome of catastrophizing and leads to negative territory.

Out of love, pleasure good thing not with gun to your head

(same action experienced differently owing to fear),

no background, no resonance with anything positive inside,

just with negative which causes trauma

and rejection of life and reality (loner).

Right things for wrong reasons healthy things for unhealthy reasons

dissonance no happiness pleasure satisfaction don’t get you

anywhere What wrong with me?

Doing all right things everything everything I can all right things

but is not getting me anywhere why what’s wrong

probably wrong with me.

Instead of doing right things focus on getting right motivations focus

on feeling not on acting (action- not emotion- or cognition-oriented,

it’s automatic, or following algorithms, commands,

recipes like in religion or self-help).

As long as you don’t change your motivation,

your emotional landscape/background, no action will get you anywhere.

The cart before the horse: emotions come first, actions second.

Actions do not create reliable long-term emotions

which create reliable, long-term actions

and these actions enhance the emotions.

Not what I need to do but what I need to feel, why am I doing this:

feel love reach out to intimate partners, friends, family.

Negativity can take you a long way (Hitler)

but only so far up to a point and it always ends badly implode fall apart.

Negative emotions not glue, but explosives not fear of hell but love of god.

Negativity and constriction are choices blasphemy

(rejecting god’s gifts given to be used and god himself)

spitting in life’s face give up on world

and positivity sacrilegious also inefficacious.

Total rejection of life suicide biggest possible sin

but suicide also mental Switch to positive emotionality

to motivate actions to re-embrace life Religion god

embraces life truth positivity love not death and isolation unbeing.

Even monks reject all commitments except undivided commitment,

attention, resources, energy to god

– not life (marriage, family)!

 

This has been coming for a few decades.

Reaching to bridge the communication and relations of youth and elders,
there is a so much loss that it becomes sobering and very difficult to speak to.

What some of us had for extended family and guidance is rarely honored now
and with no understanding of respect.In some cultural pockets and unbroken family lines,
there are still echoes of the skills being supported, and amongst those who appreciate the necessity.

It is interesting to note that both age groups have much the same sadness and distress in feeling disconnect,
lack of support, their meaning dismissed or attacked.I am heartbroken hearing their stories
and shocked at our current societies' lack of investment.

What I saw in seniors a few decades ago is now the current despair I am seeing and hearing from very young people.

Over the years a soothing encouragement or a hug from an elder made all the difference
and helped me from being eaten up by pressures; known and unknown.

The comfort the young bring to elders, is equally vital.

Silence swallows us whole, and what is being communicated in that silence?

Shelley Lorena Mowat

Grand~mothership

 

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