The Great Conversation, Part II

The Great Conversation Recap

There remains a gaping hole in the Great Conversation that prevents humanity from attaining a sane, sentient state.  It causes the madness, the dystopia.  It can be gone in the virtual blink of the eye.

The Great Conversation, Part II

When we first emerged into our sentient state of heightened awareness, while much of existence confounded us, there was one particular aspect, one legacy of the animal, that humanity could not confront.  It had been too much for our feeble-minded ancestors.  We are no longer feeble-minded.

For three millennia, as we have learned to comprehend so much about existence, this aspect of the stupoured state of the animal has held us in thrall.  We have yet to allow a close inspection of ourselves.  We shunted the most important aspect of sentient emergence into the void.

Because of this, the stupoured state of the animal continues to cling to our existence.  

Even though we now have the wherewithal to overcome this bestial aspect of our existence, we have blocked out every conscious thought regarding this aspect of sentient existence so thoroughly, that we don't even entertain the realization which will allow us to attain a sane sentient state.

Clarity is the sentient call, the sentient goal.  This aspect befuddled it all.

The Great Conversation, definition

My definition of The Great Conversation differs some from those trying to sell books, which is all about the great thinkers (see Aphorisms, for instance).  The Great Conversation, to me, extends much further than that.  It is the widely accepted reality of the human race.  There are particular concepts that span all cultures.  There are many more that span most modern cultures.  It is this segment that must understand what is missing from the human race in order for us to attain our Humanity and sanity.  Two such concepts I mention often are walking and talking.  They are distinguishable because they are both learned concepts.  Unless someone is disabled, it is expected that they can learn both.  What I am suggesting is that there is one more such that must become commonly accepted by the bulk of humanity.  With our mass communications capability and the viral extension of knowledge, once it starts, it can cover modern humanity in short order.  We can, at least, begin the journey in earnest very, very rapidly as young men finally become convinced and prove to themselves that they can learn to do something that their ancestors feared to even dwell on, much less succeed.