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RE: Necessities in Humanity
There's a balance of course. But if you look at much of civilization, especially recently since the industrial revolution, humanity has given itself solely to the pursuit of material wealth and hyper -productivity at the expense of what was more traditional values like morality, manners, intellect, and beauty.
I don't buy to traditions, but that hyper productivity is part of this labor worshipping, that Hannah Arendt talks about in a Human Condition. I don't realy understand this "balance" part, as I personally believe in never ending process that needs to be embraced. I see all this talking about balance as a idea that we somehow have to "sacrifice" something from our own good to serve some kind of greater good. I believe that we can all benefit by "embracing the process". I would also dare to make a claim that this balance talking is in it self some form of number-cruncing. Some kind of attempt to find some kind of "perfect, and absolute values".
There is no greater good really, only what you think will benefit yourself-egoism if you will. What do you mean by "embracing the process". Which process?
It's relative to the individual, values can't be deduced into some statistical framework. GDP, growth, utilization of capital, employment, and anything else related to utilization of goods and services on the other hand, have all been used as a measure of absolute values even if people don't say it has. Many things in society are based on how things fit into this statistical-economical framework which is done by planners trying to "perfect humanity".
I believe into this idea were we live in universal "infinite" process. The process is subject, not object. Have you happened to read "The Theory Of Mind As a Pure Act"? I have been reading that, and it should reveal little bit more what I am talking about (alltough I have noticed that there are possible errors). This process can be proven by the fact that everything eventually crumbles, only absolute is process it self. It should also be pointed out that we move in the space who knows where, spinning on this planet that is rotating around it self and circulating sun. We can see plants grow and die, evolve in the process. I believe that this process is absolute good, that is everything and everywere. However we cannot realy know it, as mind is incabable of containing it self, since everytime we think of something, it is pulled from universal process and turned into an object.
Interesting stuff, another thing will have to look into.
When you talk about about this infinite process it sounds a lot to me like just plainly talking about the "nature of things", the absolute relation of things to one another, that can't be defined in precise terms. Though like you say, perhaps it's something that we cant know for sure. I then wonder the consequences of such understanding.
I recommend reading "The Theory Of Mind As A Pure Act" by Gentile Giovanni. What draw me to this was need to understand italian-fascism. I wrote a blog post some time ago about how this fascism failed to embrace process, that it was suppose to embrace. Even Gentile Giovanni believed in fascism, and has been revealed to been a ghost writer of small part of "Doctrine Of Fascism".