People seem to be generally altogether blind to the fact intellectualism shallows a person’s mind. - Not only intellectuals I guess. - Those who have the tendency to be or become intellectuals may be likely to miss the point. - What is intellectuality? - What is it? - There is this kind of thinking. - What is it about? - It is not about seeing things. It is not about seeing reality. - It is not about noticing fine details or subtle phenomena before one’s eyes. - It generally always is about mere deduction. Sometime right, sometimes wrong. - An intelligent person can understand a list or a structure of details presented to him. (Or her) This is in a way a very rough ability. - People possessing it sometimes have a very poor personality in other aspects. - Though typically such ones will be unable to appreciate the value of what they lack.
- Things can be quite amazing, - as I have come to testify to recently. - It may be accepted that children too, - clearly and unarguably while not having acquired maturity, - possibly in any way at all, - can be at times very intelligent. - This is not a new argument, - I believe. - Wisdom is not like that. - It is fundamentally related to one’s personality. - For observing reality, - intelligence alone - merely being clever, - is never enough. It can only assist other abilities. Else than very easy or simple cases. - Understanding one’s surroundings and situation in an integral manner as a practical and real tool relies on something else. - But when one - out of not being aware of what I am trying to say here, - adheres to intellectuality, - adopts it into his or her personality, - fills his or her mind and thought with this rough manner of constructing things, - then other - more significant and refined abilities humans are endowed with, - may degenerate.
Or may not develop if this is in an early age when they have naturally not appeared yet.
- Intellectual thinking is detached thinking. - Fundamentally it does not have a living link to reality. Intellectuals would not understand what this is all about. - Intellectuality is basically about receiving a set of details and concluding what one can off them. - There is no harmony, - no living sense of measure, - no integral ability of seeing in depth beyond this. - It is quite unrelated to one’s inner qualities. We know today no man can beat a computer in chess. - But a computer can never match the initial learning of a baby since birth up to his (or her) third year. - A troublesome point is that just for those this is meaningful it may be far from easy to understand the issue. - You will not understand it intellectually. - You need to apply a different kind of thinking. - Not one absent, necessarily, - but one that would be often and typically put aside by the silly guys involved. - The features necessary for the more essential levels of thought are altogether different, - and the tendency among intellectuals with their materialistic ideas and tendency will be to altogether be unable to understand the value of developing them. - To look down at these. - Their abilities to work on these will - at first at least, - not be great, - because of the degeneration caused by emphasizing this shallow level of thought, - but anyway they are far from appreciating the need, - among other things at least because of living where others too share the similar attitudes.
- The degeneration caused may not be paralleled to a computer. - It is also a matter of what happens in the body. - While certain features gain the resources others lose. If muscles work they develop. No secret. - Also with other things. But here the situation seems to be that while resources are channeled one way other potential abilities lose, - particularly when these are things perhaps somewhat hidden, - which anyway do need some intentional development off one’s life. - So while one - a man or a woman, - most likely already as a child, - treads this wrong path, - and qualifies his or her thinking only in this obvious and rough manner and route, - stupidity takes place, - often, - and the wrong view thus coming about keeps one from changing things in a hopeful manner. In the past things have not been like this. Though of course man was not more developed. - It is not so much that people today are [potentially] worse, - but rather the situation drives some – not few, - in this miserable path losing liveliness and essence. It may be unnecessary to add that those referred to would often find this reference to essence quite meaningless, - “what is essence?” - they might ask, - imagining it is nothing more than an emotional idea of those inferior to them. Such is the world. So far.
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