Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions

Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions By L. S. Heatherly I A psychiatrist who once had a wide following died April 27th of this year. Yours Truly knew nothing of Stanley I. Greenspan. Reportedly, he was at the forefront in the 1970s and beyond of a movement that saw human interactions and loving relationships as the foundation for a child's emotional and intellectual growth. Looking around us today at the unprecedented fragmentation, disintegration and surrogation, at the the electronification, cyberization, virtualization, of human interactions and loving relationships; we might wonder, and need to ponder, what happened to this restoration movement. Gosh! How did he come to rediscover what was, once upon the times, and in the family-village places, common sense! What was, and is, the most loving essence of the human condition, of human sociality, for eons! That, back then, it took an eminent psychiatrist and a movement to inform us of this! To inform us that human interactions and loving relationships are the central basis for childhood development! And now, we have scarce hope of restoring this traditional common sense Just imagine, it took a movement to attempt the restoration of the core basis of human culture and society! Could it be that he saw all around him a deficiency in these! Imagine that the movement failed; as it did. Now, imagine the seemingly unimaginable! Imagine that we shall come together to apprehend and embrace this vital common sense! Imagine we cared and dared to know how and why this movement failed! Imagine that we shall rededicate our lives to restoring the sanctity of natural childhood. Imagine that we shall protect and defend our children's birthright to be the children of Mother Earth and her natural, unadulterated human nature, unfolding within a natural childhood. It is sad and disturbing to see, to what new, lower levels "genius" now falls in its artificial rise, its separation from the natural human condition. Artificial genius, intelligence and activities now accelerate their rise amidst the Modern fall of natural intelligence, consciousness and activities. This we, through formal education, loosely and recklessly for over 150 years, now, call Progress. Oh, how we desperately need more undegreed, independent thinkers like Will Rogers, Thomas Paine and Jean J. Rousseau! This is one hallmark of our Modern Tragedy, both marking and exemplifying our Age. This unfortunate man midst our pollutions of humanity, a genius by contemporary standards, conceivably, died from more than "complications from a stroke" -- a stroke merely involves the brain of a mere human organism! What about the man, the male, human being? What about the man's heart, life, and spirit? How about reporting to the public what happens to human beings during the Modern process of dying! Tragically, such fuller reporting is beyond what is considered appropriate; it is forbidden! Alas, only rare souls will dare to investigate true, natural human living and dying -- to investigate what human life really is; to investigate the sociocultural follies that really are, increasingly, killing us! We who, once upon true time and place, were full, whole human beings in unity and sustainabilty within Earth-life! Modernity's science and medicine want to report, and impart to us, their knowledge of human tissue, cells, organs and organisms! Whence the truthful and wise human beings so commonly found in more natural and traditional societies? Whence the plenitude of organic, communities, in respectful obedience, knowledge and harmony with evolved, human nature, culture midst all Earth-life? Death from a broken heart is very conceivable, but forbidden to utter: Its conceivable, even likely, to free thinkers, that people get strokes, cancer and heart disease from the progressive breaking of the human heart and spirit! What, after all, is the deep source of Modern stress! Could the real, deep, natural truth be that this man, who saw the light concerning children's growth and well-being; but, still, despite his heroic vision and work, had to endure the ongoing pain of observing the ongoing decline of that enlightenment he professed; and had to witness the displacement, of those very human interactions and loving relationships via the rise in artificial, electronic, cybernetic, virtual, and diverse, unclose, nonloving forms of human interactions, relationships and vicarious forms of these! Could it be that he died of a broken heart and spirit! II Starting, perhaps in the 1980s, movies became filled with scenes of parents and children saying the words, "I love you." This reveals, to anyone willing and able to see, that as the manifold acts of love are removed from our lives; the need to assert love with words arises through the subliminal awareness of love's declining presence in our lives. Its nothing less than the verbalized denial of the decline in the manifold acts and relationships of love. This revelation is also the starkest indication that the Age of Linguistics, and the hermenuetical thesis are false and destructive to humanity. During the 80s, and earlier for some, we arrived to where we could no longer completely block and deny the decline in love. At some level, we became aware of our social and cultural failure to love and be loved as much as humans innately deserve. Through our diverse, commercial oppressions, we cannot walk the walks of love, cannot do the manifold acts of love, cannot have the full relationships of loving each other; thus, we inevitably, try to compensate for what is missing by saying what should be happening. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Heart, Love and Mind Love is phenomena of the heart, compelling actions; Love, as phenomenon of the mind, remains ideas and words. Love entails behavioral relationship, it is behavioral embracement: growth of human being. Love spoken as affirmation, may also act; but entails, compels, or effects, via mere words, no sharing behavior. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * Original Sin: Rationalization of Love We rationalize this false belief: the saying of love makes it so, makes love there, where it rightfully should be: in accordance with innate, natural, human nature, in accordance with sustainable, natural human culture, family, community, society, life way and Earth's human habitat-ecosystems. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Life and Love I One does not have to verbally affirm true love, when one has true, loving life! We love, therefore, we are. We live as humans be(ings), therefore, we love. All Rights Reserved 2010