Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
People develop themselves socially and fictitiously today as much as they desire, in the detriment of the rest of their skills, knowledge, and abilities, higher and lower. And this is why, currently, money, servitude, ignorance, unlimited pleasure, material life, vices, and trivial social values are desired the most, and they remain desirable for life, for you and for your children alike. With what consequences? What about the rest of your life values and abilities? You certainly see consequences everywhere today, at all levels and in all domains. Yet if you had your own way, if you were ever given the choice to decide and determine your own development and developmental pattern throughout life, would you really follow the crowd to nowhere, while developing and decaying in an organized manner, or you would choose to develop in a more harmonious, personalized, meaningful, and fulfilling manner? And since your children tend to follow your own developmental pattern just as well, which one should it be?Do you find society fair, along with all its rules and authorities? If you do, and if everything goes fine throughout life, this means that you are developed at the exact level of Society, along with everyone else. If you find yourself struggling continuously throughout life, then you might be underdeveloped, or you might be in the wrong developmental track. Yet if you find everyone around underdeveloped, along with their tight rules, predictable behavior, and superficial expectations, then you might be overdeveloped compared to Society, or you might expect more from yourself, from those around, from Society, and from life in general. The problem is not exactly why you are underdeveloped or overdeveloped throughout life, but why Society remains incapable to reach you in order to offer you the exact kind of development that you need, according to your genuine human nature, meaning, and fulfillment. And if you happen to find everybody having the same developmental problems as you do, then you might want to reconsider Society altogether. Yet I have a multitude of books throughout this series studying Society in its rigidity and partiality, while what we are more interested throughout this book is the human development itself within Society. More importantly, we are interested in the kind of development that Society offers, the kind of development that you seek, need, and deserve throughout life, and the manner in which it takes place. Because only when you manage to know all details regarding your own development, you are capable to conduct it in any manner. The topic of this book is to study and understand everything about the human development in any pattern it may take place, how and why you develop, at what level, through what patterns, and with what consequences, in order for you to regain control of your own development throughout life, for you, for your family, for your friends, and for the entire society.
Synopsis
There is an entire world of living, intelligent complexity everywhere and in all details, just ready to accept you if you are developed enough to reach it, yet people seek to develop superficially and unilaterally instead, depending on the fashion and social believes in place wherever they live. Because only decades ago for example, being tall and strong was very desirable, along with winning in fistfights and holding your liquor. This was what people sought the most then, and consequently, this was what people developed the most, their muscles, stature, and addictions, in a very familiar developmental pattern. Knowingly or not, people grew taller indeed, and highly athletic. You may still see these people today, looking surprising now at their old age, with oversized skeletons and floppy skin, recalling those old, grandiose times.
While even further in the past, throughout famines and recessions, it was more appealing to look fat and healthy, just to show to the world how wonderful you were. And this was exactly what people developed the most in themselves back then, fat. Currently, people seek social supremacy and material achievements the most, developing their own social skills accordingly, while morphing and reshaping their faces and bodily parts in order to look younger and enhanced in every way, since this is what makes everybody more attractive and more accepted today. Therefore, this is how people develop, mostly physically, socially, and fictitiously, at all costs, and through all efforts. Yet it is very common to develop in this apparently enhanced manner today, just the way being strong, drunk, and fat used to be the high norms of the past.
But can enhanced bodily appearance and enhanced social status be as irrelevant today as all developmental patterns from the past? Are you actually tricked into investing your lifetime effort in specific developmental patterns decided for you from above by those controlling society? And is it done this way to keep you distracted, diverted, and astray throughout life? Because this is relevant to know indeed, since once you start developing inadequately at the beginning of your life, you cannot change afterwards, and so you go down from there, just the way plants growing crooked in the beginning are doomed for life.
Throughout this book, we study the human development in all its patterns, how and why it takes place, at what level, through what patterns, and with what consequences, in order for you to decide and control your own developmental pattern throughout life, for you, your loved ones, and the entire world.