Saturday, June 9, 2012

The headless horseman of Mass Media: Information Everywhere, Nowhere Philosophy

Have you ever noticed that we are surrounded by information but almost never find an idea in the media that could help us lead a healthy life and happy? Oh, the usual puff of self-help on how to lose weight or enjoy sex, but the answers to the really big questions, like what to think about when you wake up the morning and like drinking water out of a plastic bottle without belching .

Try this experiment. The next time you go to your favorite newsstand, scan the front pages of all excited and smiling cover stories and try to find at least a proposal that addresses the biggest questions are about your life. We're not kidding around here. We are talking about the grand slam-dunk ideas that can really help to get away with a valuable degree of rationality and happiness.

Of course, one might think that everyone would know enough of these resources mental age of sixteen years or so, but, judging by the amount of madness and misery in the world, even among supposedly intelligent people, apparently very few people never to marshal their defenses against the tribulations of life and their inspiration to its pleasures.

For example, how about Spalding Gray, whose recent successful foray into the East River in New York, upset and depressed all of us? What was he thinking? Or a way back for another trip to the wrong river, take Robert Schumann, one of the brightest and most generous composers who ever lived. The soul became so distracted frantic and depressed, with a wife as pretty and accomplished as Clara, who walked in Reno in mid-February and after accidental survivor, asked to spend his last days in an asylum.

Obviously, there is a real need here for some manual labor. So, to help bridge the vapidity pervasiveness of the media regularly and wants nothing bad happens to you, precious reader, but in fact perpetual joy and hope, this we present twelve examples to help walk through life happy and healthy, at least, most of the time.

1. Do you think you were born to be healthy and happy. It helps you think better of what is behind everything.

2. To be healthy and happy, do great things, because it's fun, useful, and makes you feel good about yourself. E 'in general, but not always gratifying to be caring and can afford it, generous.

3. Let others believe what they want and just be happy that they have something that will help them get through this hard life, unless what they believe could harm someone else, especially to you. Then just leave. You can find more friends. If part of your family, waiting to see how loving their own.

4. Take care of your life and everything "made it" will take care of you, if anyone cares, providing of course that is healthy and happy enough for you to be concerned about, and we hope and trust it is. Otherwise, why birds sing, even though some of them, especially the chorus CAW-CAW, of course, never went to music school?

5. Be nice to everyone who is not completely worthless, because everyone else is at least as fragile and insecure as you are, no matter how big his mouth is or how inconsiderate and selfish he or she can be.

6. Remember Philosophy 101 and two great Ari generally neglected chestnuts. A: Happiness is more likely in the right direction if you lead your life according to reason ", rather than listen to the abundant variety of idiocy that are somehow still being in the world. Two: be guided by the golden rule is, avoid excess of any kind, especially since it is likely to get in trouble too.

Note, for example, how many people mess up their relationships, they do not know that the search for more and more generally leads to less, since reckless Rampage denies the value of the individual, which seems to be the only person can embrace and kiss. Also note the number of celebrities are dying twist spit of need, seemingly unaware that they need to infinity can know no satisfaction.

7. Keep the fullness of your life in mind and never let a detail person and to not drive you to distraction completely, even when the detail is the one you love, saying, "I just decided my happiness depends on translation and text. " Times like these are great to remember what your grandmother taught you: count your blessings.

8. Curse without feeling guilty. It 'a power that has never hurt anyone. And what are the words, but in reality it seems in the air? Do not forget the most forbidden word of all rhymes with luck.

9. In fact, I do not feel guilty of anything, unless you are so perverse that actually hurt someone else or on rare occasions, yourself. Then you should feel really guilty, unless, of course, the other person was trying to hurt you. Then you should feel fantastic to beat him or her out and he or she is the one that must feel really guilty.

To free from guilt, we recommend the following means original remedy your superego, which can unfortunately be parked on your ego flattened, like a cluster of internal objects that represent the most influential people in your past. Pretend they're in a jury box, observing you. They are probably not smiling and saying: "Do whatever you want, honey. We love you and just want you to be happy." No, they are probably scowling and wagging fingers, sternly advising: "Do not." O " How could you do? "

Now, here is the initial part of the remedy: a one time these judges oppressive upside down and bounce them on their heads.

This innovative tactic helps you realize that they are now only in your mind and therefore are within your control. You have "internalized", as Freud perpetually unhappy children internalized the primal father, with all its rules and annoying, as Siggy tells us, now deceased, but this terror stern is more powerful than ever, because in their minds, even looking their thoughts more embarrassing.

As you know, helping many people find guilt in a small space where you can breathe free based on their prying superegos garbage-truck-size their egos.

A simple way to kick ass in the primal father is to realize that being able to think of every alternative is the same dynamic that allows you to decide, noble or ignoble, what do you really like.

Who knows? With a little 'head bouncing persistent, one day you may be able to dismiss the entire jury.

10. Enjoy sex and alcohol. You were born to enjoy the first, and you need to enjoy the second.

Amazing how many people take responsibility for the fact that they want normal. Relax. You did not design the installation. Your task is just to live with it. Obviously, the nature believed in pleasure than any moralizing is likely to encounter, at least when he or she is speaking in public.

Secondly, ever noticed how people who do not drink are usually very tense and often have a clear understanding about the age of 40 lock-up, and out to the limit. Your body needs a good reliable way to relax, especially in a world of every day That is all set to stress even Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, and alcohol is more than pills what is good taste .

Just do not get drunk because you feel bad and maybe get arrested for DWI or kill an innocent person or another drunk who is driving toward you.

11. Do not worry, when the sun is extinguished. You have more immediate problems.

12. If you become overly concerned about what can you expect when the curtain comes down on your life, remember that many problems you had before you were born. If still concerned, consult happy and healthy tip number seven, sentence two.

Bonus idea. We have only twelve, but we have another great idea, alluded to achieve a comic effect, at the start, we can not resist sharing the good luck.

13. Like drinking from plastic bottles.

Surprisingly, there is a way to drink water from a plastic bottle without inhaling so much air you have to burp revoltingly three or four times. Surprisingly enough, there is also a way to drink soda from a large plastic bottle, bubbly as always flatter without the bottle becomes empty.

When you drink right out of a bottle of water, especially in Poland Spring, which, as you noted, has a hole so small that most think the company really does not want you to drink, just buy it. Place the circle on the lower lip so that the top of the curve is still exposed to air. Then it can rain, instead of sucking on it like a child desperately do with a nipple retention.

With large bottles of soda every time you pour a glass, press until there is very little air in and then put the cap. Now, there's hardly room to evaporate in the fizz. Certainly, the crushed, folded it in the refrigerator will be odd, but at least the stuff will stay bubbly hot.

Unfortunately, this trick does not work with resources of champagne, because obviously not available in plastic bottles, at least, not yet.

Suppose that you are now ready to face life, prepared for any eventuality that, if experience is any indication, will contain the usual mix of bloody devastation and unpredictable pleasures that if they think, is the main thing that makes life Mental jokingly interesting.

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