Cowardice of Culture for Collusive Consensus - 3 7/16/2024 10:52:07 AM
From infantile dependency in actual formative stages to the maladaptive adult-child grown-up status of profane childishness, a trend of adults displaying immature and irresponsible behaviors, the increasing immaturity threatens cultural ascendancy. This decline in maturity and courage is not just a personal issue but a societal one, as it hinders personal growth and societal progress by promoting conformity, fear, and a lack of critical thinking. Essay excerpt: From infantile dependency in actual formative stages to the maladaptive adult-child grown-up status of profane childishness, a trend of adults displaying immature and irresponsible behaviors, the increasing immaturity threatens cultural ascendancy. This decline in maturity and courage is not just a personal issue but a societal one, as it hinders personal growth and societal progress by promoting conformity, fear, and a lack of critical thinking. To break away and transform with mastery of personal liberation requires a courageous commitment to personal self-evolution. In prior history, phases of initiatory rites of passage proclaim the necessity of movement from juvenile immaturity to adulthood potentiality. Such reflects some philosophers' embracing the quest for individual adventure. As one mythologist offers, the call to the hero's journey is for everyone. Unfortunately, few rise to the occasion in the post-modern conceptual framework of maladaptive thinking. Cultural cowardice abdicates intellectual ascendancy.
Take, for example, military service as a young person starting on his or her life quest. Depending on data analysis from reliable sources, very few voluntarily answer a call to national service. If one considers public service to include the military, public safety agencies, or other related communal service, then a very small number rises. As to the military alone, according to one assessment from a 2015 article in a national publication, roughly 7% of the U.S. population have ever served their country. According to U.S. Defense Department information, about 22 million Americans were military veterans of various service branches. That estimate varies among different studies over the past several decades. Anywhere from 5% to 6.6% offers a fluctuating dynamic for those who answer your personal journey's call for self-evolving differentiation. Adding to the mix, the number of first responders likewise changes over time in the complexity of many situations. Of which, an insidious erosion of rational thinking threatens freedom.
Retired and current public safety officers, which include military veterans, in all probability, bring the public service level to around 10% or less of the U.S. population. Population figures used here do not include an estimated 30 million non-citizens. When that particular fluctuation is considered, the number of public service personnel volunteering to serve their country and community is well under 10%. So, one in ten could be said to answer a call to duty. A sense of responsibility for one's ability is fostered by the illusion of the mysteries of thinking. Meanwhile, the "mind" is a metaphor for the extraordinary organic properties of the brain.
