RE: The eight blind spots of humanity, and what we can do about them on steemit!
These blind spots to me are really evidence of a lack of a certain capacity to see, or the skill of seeing. If the capacity to see is lacking, it is possible that such capacity can be built or even restored if somehow lost, by learning the skill of seeing.
The skill of seeing means something like setting aside prejudices, reserving judgment and opening the mind so that it may close again on new information for digestion.
Our capacity to see is entirely dependent on faith, not a religious faith, but faith as a reservation of judgment. To see something, we must reserve judgment just long enough to fully apprehend what we are seeing without judgment, malice, contempt or any other preconceived notion.
It is when we reserve judgment that we can clear away the blind spots and appreciate reality for what it is. A dream.
Yes, life really is a dream. "Self is illusion." I'd like to take that up with you at another time.
Your note is packed with a payload that I do not yet comprehend. It is giving me a glimpse of who you are.
You're missing something, though. There is no need to fix the blind spots. We just need to recognize that we need to be connected to each other in community. For example, young adults don't need to become able to see what elders can easily see. Young people just need to allow elders to play an appropriate role in their community so that the community as a whole benefits from what the elders, and each of the other categories of individuals, can easily see.
It is a conceit in our individualistic society to think that we as individuals can be self sufficient. That is what I was trying to say in my list of blind spots. A community that lives a way of life that gives each group its "proper role" is not blind at all!
Well, it seems that I misapprehended your post. The skill I would think of then is known as communication. That doesn't fix the blind spot, but it will inform the person with the blind spot of what he is missing.
And when you mentioned community, the word that immediately comes to mind is "collaboration". Skills are taught with collaboration in a community of people. For this reason, we find common ground on the fallacy of self-sufficiency. I tried to believe the rugged individualist thing, and even tried to be one myself. Whew. That one unhappy experience.
Anyway, I'm glad to have made your acquaintance and look forward to further correspondence.
Likewise. True community is far deeper, with bonds that are sacred. It is not mere collaboration, any more than a marriage between a man and a woman in true love is mere collaboration. Such connections are not transactions. What a man does for his woman is done because that's what a man does. It is unconditional. What a woman does for her man is likewise unconditional and a manifestation of who and what she is; she doesn't do it to reward or to control her man, and she does not do it out of fear or to gain power over him.
It's all about morals, about unselfishness, about love. Real love.