If you drive your car full throttle all the time you won’t get nearly as many miles over the lifetime of the car, as if you drive it with reason.
Same goes for our body. If we choose to “adjust” our body’s performance – muscles or gray matter – we’re most likely reducing the life-time mileage we can achieve…
The question to me is less of should we allow it or not. It really is, why do we feel we need to do this?
My take on it is, that we are still approaching our life and everything in it as animal. In nature everything is a bout competition, scarcety is the motivator and selector. We humans are different. Yes, we are animals too, but we can go beyond it. Competition is the “natural” way – just like urinating whenever the bladder is full is the natural way. We learn, that it is possible and beneficial to wait until we are in the right place to relieve ourselves. The same applies to competition, the “natural” force to get things done. We can and should replace it by a more suitable, more humane, more “spiritual” motivator. I think, cooperation would be a good candidate for that.
We all have talents, and we can contribute with these talents and abilities. We do not need these drugs. We do not need to compete. We need to cooperate, and we need to try to be the best that we can be. Not in comparison to anybody else, but in comparison to my own best potential. That, BTW, is much harder to do: to be my best! I can easily make you believe I did the best. But I know, whether it is really so or not. I can be “better” than somebody else – but am I the best I can be?
To summarize: I think the root of the problem lies in our spiritual immaturity, which has prevented us from shedding the motivation through competition concept of the animal world. Focusing on what I can contribute, and attempting to be the best I can be would make things like drug abuse (and many other ailments of society and individuals) a non-issue…
Thomas hutegger | 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Technical versus economical capacity
If you drive your car full throttle all the time you won’t get nearly as many miles over the lifetime of the car, as if you drive it with reason.
Same goes for our body. If we choose to “adjust” our body’s performance – muscles or gray matter – we’re most likely reducing the life-time mileage we can achieve…
The question to me is less of should we allow it or not. It really is, why do we feel we need to do this?
My take on it is, that we are still approaching our life and everything in it as animal. In nature everything is a bout competition, scarcety is the motivator and selector. We humans are different. Yes, we are animals too, but we can go beyond it. Competition is the “natural” way – just like urinating whenever the bladder is full is the natural way. We learn, that it is possible and beneficial to wait until we are in the right place to relieve ourselves. The same applies to competition, the “natural” force to get things done. We can and should replace it by a more suitable, more humane, more “spiritual” motivator. I think, cooperation would be a good candidate for that.
We all have talents, and we can contribute with these talents and abilities. We do not need these drugs. We do not need to compete. We need to cooperate, and we need to try to be the best that we can be. Not in comparison to anybody else, but in comparison to my own best potential. That, BTW, is much harder to do: to be my best! I can easily make you believe I did the best. But I know, whether it is really so or not. I can be “better” than somebody else – but am I the best I can be?
To summarize: I think the root of the problem lies in our spiritual immaturity, which has prevented us from shedding the motivation through competition concept of the animal world. Focusing on what I can contribute, and attempting to be the best I can be would make things like drug abuse (and many other ailments of society and individuals) a non-issue…
Thomas hutegger | 4 months, 2 weeks ago