Felipe's reflections & heuristics

Those themes might be intrinsically tied to ‘your’ survival but they have no bearing on actual danger/safety, in fact those very mechanisms actively prevent human beings from living in safety and prosperity.
Have you considered that those ‘dangers’ which ‘you’ intuit are not actual, that is to say they have nothing to do with facts?
And further that those very mechanisms which appear to offer ‘safety’ are actually responsible for the wars, murders, suicides, depression etc?

This only clicked today for me, as a result of a situation which by all ‘normal’ means could be labelled as serious. And yet it came to be seen that those ‘safety’ mechanisms are actually hurting me and my fellow human beings by all measures. Meaning that not only do they inflict suffering but also they get in the way of sensibly and intelligently dealing with the actual situation at hand.

All in all as @geoffrey wrote, the known is the unsafe, ‘I’ am the unsafe.

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