> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 20 evergreens</em></s> #### [[What is the cognitive effect of living in an unjust world]] > ![[10_Sources/Readwise/Books/10_Sources/books - The Anthropocene Reviewed#^288175131]] > > <cite>[[John Green]] talking about his last night as a hospital chaplain.</cite> > ![[10_Sources/books - The Dawn of Everything#261572339q]] %% #TO/DO/FIND story, Need to establish that the world is unjust%% %%There is more that one answer, how should they be represented? #TO/PONDER/ME %% %%What is the conclusion%% %% Possible Answers: - [can answer:: [[Humans have decided to reject an unjust world]]] - [answer:: [[Faith is an abstraction of cognitive dissonance]]] - [answer:: [[Our brain will do anything it can to protect itself]]] - [answer:: [[Humans have decided to take advantage of an unjust world]]] - [answer:: [[Humans long to know what to do]]] - [answer:: [[Humans are addicted to believing]]] - [result:: [[Human's will find explanations for inexplainable things]]] - [result:: [[Human's have an inability to admit that they are wrong]]] - [result:: [[The injustice of endurance]]] - [result:: [[Stupid rules are made to be broken]]] - [result:: [[Humans try really hard to avoid understanding their mistakes]]] %% Over all, [[Humans have decided to reject an unjust world]], but this manifest in many different %% - [[negative utilitarianism]] ^[[[10_Sources/articles - My moral code - Inverted Passion]]] is the belief that we need strive to reduce harm over everything else - This assumes that people will act rationally and want to reduce their own [[suffering]], but that isn't always the case: [[Sadness is enlightenment and happiness is delusion]] %% %%I don't think this is the answer. Doing good feels more effective than reducing harm, but trying to do good and failing can increase harm. What is the logical end of these beliefs?%% We know that [[Humans are primarily irrational, illogical, emotional beings]] and we must keep that in mind when we are striving for [[society|societal]] change and [[self-actualization|personal]] change. - source [[Knowledge of an unjust world is painful]] - [[True optimism is acknowledging the suffering of the world and defying it anyway]] - [[Realism must acknowledge optimism's existence and effectiveness]] - [[Hope is not optimism it is a practice for producing change]] - [[Empathy isn't understanding how you would make the decision it's understanding why they made the decision]] - [[Anger fuels change]] - [[Human's will find explanations for inexplainable things]] - [[Stereotypes are social constructs]] - [[Humans love to group eachother]] - [[Stupid rules are made to be broken]] - [[The injustice of endurance]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SAPLING *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[realism]], [[injustice]], [[anger]], [[social justice]]