Auch die Serie Holocaust wollte nur freiwaschen von der Schuld, die Täter konnten sich zu Hauf in Sicherheit wiegen durch das Dreher Gesetz, welch ein Skandal Man hat uns damals schön vorgeführt und es war keinem peinlich.
*_He kept his faith when fear was crippling most_* *_And saved his soul when hope was all but lost._* *_He showed us Meaning is the key to living_* *_And healed our world from senseless holocaust._*
Albert Camus takes "man's search for meaning" to another step. He sees that those of us who have a meaningful value/values in life are faced with the seeming indifference of the universe to these values. The gap between our values and the indifferent universe is what he terms the 'absurd' and what to do about it becomes the question of whether to commit suicide. One path forward is provided by formal religions, or at least those of the major world religions, which all depict a realm of values residing either in a godhead (Judaism, Christianity and Hinduism, as examples) or in an objective source of "right living", as in forms of Buddhism. Lacking these alternatives, one must find it sufficient to maintain one's own values knowing that their source and justification lie only within oneself.
Thank you for sharing this powerful clip with us 🌿💚🙏🏽 I can not put into words my full experience of having watched and listened to this con-versation. Something that stayed with me from having watched the full documentary, Victor & I, how his first wife, Tilly, had said Viktor was not hungry in the belly but hungry in the mind (or imagination). This touched me very deeply. What are we hungry for?
Well... honestly Water is water and fire is fire, but fire is not water so.... there's meaning to fire not being water...and so... I have meaning. I have a meaning in life, and this comment has a meaning. This comment's meaning is to entice you with nonsense and brag my nonsense to you guys. I am literally awake at 1:31am trying to write a report on trauma counselling lol.
Mittlerweile wäre ein Therapeut für die ganze Gesellschaft notwendig. Auch wenn einer für Führungskräfte in Politik und Wirtschaft genügen würde. Aber diese halten sich selbst aufgrund ihres "Erfolgs" nicht für therapiebedürftig. Diese Tatsache wiederum ist Teil des Krankheitsbildes der schizophrenen Psychose. Zum Verrücktwerden 😊
I was brought to Viktor Frankl through Stephen Covey's '7 habits of highly effective people'. To me Frankl's influence is very clear in Covey's book - one has to establish a meaning to his or hers life before life can be fully lived. It sounds so simple but this realisation only came to me at 40 years of age after a difficult few years. I feel so encouraged now to have a really considered what the my meaning is and with that knowledge I feel previously unassailable obstacles can now be overcome. Better late than never!!!!
The ultimate take away here is not to use Self Actualization as a means of discovering meaning in one’s life, but that one should pursue the meaning and self actualization will fall into place gradually as a product of fulfilling one need for meaning.
It’s like going to hunt for food, building the fire to cook the food, prepping the food, cooking it, then having a beautiful dinner. Eating the dinner with your family is self-transcendence and self-actualization is the crap you take after.
Excellent interview with Victor Frankel. Ouote: It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism, he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else. Albert Schweitzer
This idea of the impossibility of losing or annihilating that which is experienced - positive or negative - is close to the Buddhist insight around karmic actions and the law of causality.
Humans long for the life we knew as hunter gatherers. Around 25,000 years ago the husbandry of animals and women began by the males. They also devised a "god" that looked like them (white male). And they claimed to be superior like that god. Thus monotheism was created , along with husbandry of women, as a tool of social control over the women. This was when humans learned aggression. It was a tool of social control for the males. It marks the time humankind lost abundance of all essential resources including sex with anyone and everyone. Males created scarcity of everything for social control. Rules about sho could have sex with whom. Rules about who god is and who he favors. And what god says about women had to be followed. Then they invented child sacrifice to further cow the women. In hunter gather times, the largest time in human history and far exceeding the 25,000 years we have been shoved into castes and roles by agricultural man. In our most natural and happy state as hunter gatherers we valued one another most. Villages were "run" by a wise and lovingly powerful female. Love, food, and a sense of belonging was free to everyone and all felt they belonged. When we are lonely it is because it is unnatural for a human to live alone. When we seek meaning it is because we have been cut off from the natural human condition of feeling loved and supported all the time just for who we are. We don't have to be good all the time to be loved. The best and healthiest society is the one that has no rules. That is the one where evil never occurs. As hunter gatherers every moment was divine. Agricultural man values things over people and so he is lonely inside. Men don't seek to possess women, today, because evolution has motivated them to compete for women. Evolution has only motivated men to feel connecte. Modern society has given a man only one option if he wants to experience love and connection all the time. Modern society says men must be heterosexual and be primed to compete. Neither is true of males in their most natural state. We are bisexual as demonstrated by bonobos and hunter gatherers. Society has the power to shape desire. Think Socrates. Men are evolutionarily primed to be connected. Period. We need to return to sex on tap with anyone and everyone at anytime both consent. No more nuclear families and no more competition for love. Hunter gatherers knew full abundance because they didn't possess anyone or anything. That is where humans should head again.
I think animals also have meaning. We all play a part in the unfolding of the cosmos. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? The same as is with things that can’t communicate with us. Who’s not to say that because of a certain field mouse a certain lion was born, who in turn, ate a future suppressive dictator that would have killed millions. We all play a part.
I have read "Man's Search for Meaning" and it is an amazing bookall should read! A helpful aid in hard times ahead that we are looking at as I type this.
It never cease to perturb me - why people insist on putting misleading Titles to their videos. .. This one is ABSOLUTELY Useful and Worthy of Watching. and has ZERO to do with "self-actualization".. Thanks to "Noetic Films" for posting it, but - seriously - they could easily acquire viewers by simply posting it as "Viktor Frankl - eye opening interview" or probably 16 other less-misleading titles. :( . . I benefitted from listening [and reading the transcript due to low volume], and shared it with Facebook friends.. just a tad annoying. i suppose it seemed like a good title at the time to whoever chose to assign that to it. <3
