As dores do crescimento

Sr. Sommer, por Sempé

"A modernidade virou este mundo do avesso. Convenceu as colectividades humanas de que o equilíbrio é muito mais assustador do que o caos e a cupidez, por ser um dos motores do crescimento, passou a ser uma coisa boa. Assim, a modernidade instilou nas pessoas o desejo de terem mais e desmantelou a antiga disciplina através da qual a ganância era controlada.
[...] Os filósofos do capitalismo repetiam-nos constantemente: "Não se preocupem, vai tudo correr bem. Desde que a economia cresça, a mão invisível do mercado tratará do resto." Desta forma o capitalismo consagrou um sistema caótico e voraz, que avança a passos largos sem que alguém compreenda o que se está a passar e para onde é que vamos com tanta pressa."

Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

Hungry Ghosts

“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
Naguib Mahfouz



The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20

"The three things people are afraid of are, death, other people, and their own minds"
R. D. Laing


Addiction is any behaviour that gives you temporary relief, temporary pleasure, but in the long term causes harm That has some negative consequences and you can't give it up."
Gabor Maté

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy / Biosphere Consciousness

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy

On the concept of freedom: minute 1:03:45
On the concept of power: minute 1:05:01
On the concept of community: 1:05:50

On empathy:
The most civilized societies are the ones that can move empathy to larger reigns.
Here.

"Happiness are the blank pages of History, because they are the periods of harmony"
Hegel


The Belt One Road Inniciative: here

Brexit

“One of the things I was always most proud of in the UK was that this is a place where anyone can belong, which is an amazing achievement. That is now being threatened by the populist rhetoric of politicians and the laziness of the media in not challenging it.”

“I have huge faith in the people of the UK to sort this out eventually. It will take a generation… and in the long term, it will be good for the country to realise its own insignificance.”

“if you just climb over the side of the English-speaking box and look out, the world’s a very different place out there. There is more that unites us than divides us but everything we take for granted about national identity is pure chance.”

Aqui

Impérios de ficções / e o Diabo escolheu sambar

“What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it? After all, shadows are cast by objects and people. There is the shadow of my sword. But there are also shadows of trees and living creatures. Would you like to denude the earth of all the trees and all the living beings in order to satisfy your fantasy of rejoicing in the naked light?” Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita


Rolling Stone - Sympathy for the Devil

Narrativas / Impérios de ficções

"Por outro lado, as humanidades sublinham a importância decisiva das entidades intersubjectivas, que não podem ser reduzidas a hormonas e neurónios. Pensar em termos históricos significa reconhecer o poder real dos conteúdos das nossas histórias imaginadas. Claro que os historiadores não ignoram fatores objetivos como as alterações climáticas e as mutações genéticas, mas dão muito mais importância às histórias que as pessoas inventam e em que acreditam. A Coreia do Norte e a Coreia do Sul são muito diferentes não porque os genes das pessoas de Pyongyang sejam diferentes dos das pessoas de Seul, ou porque a Coreia do Norte seja mais montanhosa e fria, mas porque no Norte imperam ficções muito diferentes."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

impérios de ficções

"É assim que a História se desenrola. As pessoas tecem uma teia de sentido, acreditam nela de todo o coração, mas mais cedo ou mais tarde a teia desfaz-se e, quando olhamos para trás, não percebemos como é que alguém pode ter levado aquilo a sério. A esta distância, ir para uma cruzada na esperança de ganhar um lugar no Paraíso parece uma loucura. A esta distância, a Guerra Fria parece uma loucura ainda maior. Como é que há trinta anos havia pessoas dispostas a correrem o risco de um holocausto nuclear por causa de uma crença um paraíso comunista? Daqui a 100 anos, a nossa crença na democracia e nos direitos humanos poderá também parecer incompreensível aos olhos dos nossos descendentes.
Os Sapiens dominam o mundo porque só eles são capazes de tecer uma teia intersubjectiva de sentido: uma teia de leis, poderes, entidades e lugares que existem apenas no imaginário comum. Esta teia permite que só os humanos consigam organizar cruzadas, revoluções socialistas e movimentos de defesa dos direitos humanos.
[...] Ao longo dos últimos 70 mil anos, as realidades intersubjectivas inventadas pelo Sapiens tornaram-se cada vez mais poderosas ao ponto de hoje dominarem o mundo. Será que os chimpanzés, os elefantes, a floresta amazónica e os glaciares do Ártico sobreviverão ao século XXI? Isso dependerá dos desejos e decosões tomadas por entidades intersubjectivas como a União Europeia e o Banco Mundial, entidades que só existem no nosso imaginário comum."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

Manuel Freire - Pedra filosofal

Ronaldo case

Muita informação em pouco espaço. Vale a pena ler.

"Como se o Estado Novo tivesse saído do país mas tivesse ficado dentro nós, aprisionados por aqueles valores de heróis nacionais, de mulheres que são sérias não têm ouvidos, não usam decotes ou saias curtas, não dançam em discotecas, não se abraçam a homens, não saem sozinhas com homens e muito menos à noite, não entram num quarto com um homem. E estamos a falar da exigência mínima. Porque foi aí, tão baixo, que chegámos. Já nem se está a falar em considerar que “não é não”, seja em que situação for, e dito por quem quer que seja: uma mulher desconhecida do parceiro, a mulher ao marido ou uma prostituta."

A máscara que caiu com Ronaldo, por Helena Garrido
Aqui

"A burca é usada para cobrir mulheres islâmicas apenas por causa desta concepção doentia de homem incapaz de se controlar, caso vislumbre uma nesga de corpo feminino. Um horror, ver os homens assim representados. Mas também entre nós persiste esta representação. [...] Mas a recusa do silêncio é o gesto verdadeiramente libertador e emancipador do movimento #Metoo. Houve quem lhes chamasse mulheres sem carácter. É não perceber que é precisamente contra essa condição a que foram destinadas que se rebelam."
Aqui

Perfeccionismo e meritocracia

But “socially prescribed perfectionism is the most debilitating of the three dimensions of perfectionism,” Curran and Hall contend. It describes the feeling of paranoia and anxiety engendered by the persistent — and not entirely unfounded — sensation that everyone is waiting for you to make a mistake so they can write you off forever. This hyper-perception of others’ impossible expectations causes social alienation, neurotic self-examination, feelings of shame and unworthiness, and “a sense of self overwhelmed by pathological worry and a fear of negative social evaluation, characterized by a focus on deficiencies, and sensitive to criticism and failure.

Under Neoliberalism, You Can Be Your Own Tyrannical Boss, Meagan Day
Aqui

Free will...?

The Ultimatum Game | The Science of Empathy

"Por que é que os camponeses egípcios e os soldados prussianos agiam de forma tão diferente daquela que, com base no Ultimatum Game e na experiência dos macacos-capuchinhos, poderíamos esperar? Porque os conjuntos numerosos de pessoas comportam-se de uma maneira fundamentalmente diferente da dos grupos pouco numerosos."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

Why art could save the world...

"Qualquer cooperação humana a larga escala baseia-se, em última instância, na nossa crença em ordens imaginárias. São conjuntos de regras que, apesar de só existirem na nossa imaginação, acreditamos serem tão reais e inflexíveis como  gravidade. "Se sacrificares dez bois ao deus do céu, acabará por chover; se honrares os teus pais, irás para o céu, e se não acreditares no que te digo, irás para o inferno." Desde que os Sapiens que vivem num determinado lugar acreditem nas mesmas histórias, seguirão as mesmas regras, fazendo com que seja fácil prever o comportamento de desconhecidos e organizar redes de cooperação a larga escala."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

How to Lie Without Actually Telling a Lie

"Lying takes effort. When you tell the truth, you simply remember something and say it. When you lie, you consider the truth, whether or not you want to share it, decide that you don't, concoct a lie, and try to say that lie as naturally as you would the truth. Remembering all those steps is hard enough, but certainly not as hard as carrying them out in a matter of seconds. Misdirection still requires more work than truth-telling, but you don't need to figure out a believable alternative to use it. Instead, you simply need to focus the subject's attention on something else and let them concoct the lie using their own imagination. How do you actually do this? Let's consider some examples."
Aqui

Das pernas curtas...

"The sorts of lies you tell have an impact on their difficulty, but a small white lie can require as much upkeep as a hefty one. Telling your grandmother you enjoyed eating the Spanish tongue she prepared for your birthday is the sort of lie that's going to keep portions of Spanish tongue coming your way until Grandma's in a nursing home. Even then, you'll still be reminiscing about her deliciously prepared tongue with each visit. Okay, so this isn't the likeliest of scenarios but hopefully the point is clear: when you tell someone you like something to spare their feelings, it requires a lot of upkeep. Upkeep can be really difficult because it requires having a good memory."

"All of that said, here's the real takeaway: lying is a lot of work. You can often save yourself a lot of time, stress, and heartache by just telling the truth. Sometimes it sucks to be honest, and you'll probably find yourself engaged in more conflict, but ultimately you'll be able to handle that conflict better. So long as you're not making any really terrible mistakes, being honest about yourself and what you do will make your life a lot easier. This goes beyond owning up to a broken vase, but to being forthcoming about who you are, what you love, and what's important to you. The less you conceal and hide, the better things can get."

Aqui

What Lying Actually Does to Your Brain and Body Every Day: Link

Assombrações / Opções / free will... / food for thought

The Little Mermaid. Ilustração: Edmund Dulac

A história, aqui.

Depois dizem que somos histéricas

Segundo Carol Gilligan, Jean Piaget, George Herbert Mead, Freude e Erik H. Erikson, equivalem o desenvolvimento humano ao desenvolvimento masculino.

The body keeps the score - Trauma inherited

Study finds PTSD effects may linger in body chemistry of next generation

About Rachel Yehuda

About Psychiatric Genomics Consortium

The immune response in in the skin / TOUCH

Dacher Keltner on Touch


"The affective and cognitive processing of touch, oral texture, and temperature in the brain."
By Edmund Rolls, here

Tiffany Field on Massage Research, here.

The Dhamma brothers

Mais info aqui

TEDxBoston - Jenny Phillips - The Only Way Out is In

Hard core determinism / free will / consciousness / quantum physics

"When we look at consciousness, you realize that there are over 20 thousand papers written on it by theologians and ministers and psychologists... Never in the history of science have so many devoted so much to produce so little. [...] Quantum mechanics does play a certain role in the human mind. [...) neurons are leaky, neurons are not totally deterministic. The more narrower a neuron is, the more leakage, and these are quantum mechanical effects."



Michio Kaku on Singularity 1 on 1: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!

Scientific Method

"Uma das coisas maravilhosas da ciência é que, quando os cientistas não sabem algo, podem avançar com qualquer teoria e conjectura e, no fim, simplesmente reconhecer a sua ignorância."
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo-Deus

"Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers in the preceeding generation . . .As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Outas quoted in American Scientist v. 87, p. 462 (1999).

Intimacy and closeness

"For example. Children who have endured the death of close family, without any help, support or consolation from others, often associate closeness with abandonment and the loss of safety. In other words: “If I stay away from people, I won’t lose anyone”.

Mais aqui.

The body keeps the score

"If the people who you are programmed to love hurt you, the whole relationship towards them becomes extremely complex, and it becomes very hard to move away."

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

"what we tend to leave out is, as human beings, we are a connected species, and that love is actually the glue that keeps our lives together and that life without love has no meaning."

"Love is also a very important part of traumatic stress and it gets very messed up in traumatic stress. You get to love people who do terrible things to you. You get to hate people who are very nice to you. You get sexually excited about things that hurt you. You get knocked out to things that are pleasurable."

"Many of these dimensions have been left out by the over simplistic stupid diagnostic system that we basically built up to firm up our relationship with the drug companies."

"We wriggled our fingers in front of peoples eyes. No one is going to take us seriously... before we had done the EMDR study and I told my 'real scientist' colleagues, that EMDR is a kickass treatment, they would say: So? Nobody's done the science. We don't know how it works, we don't know whether it works... And, I said, 'Ok, I'll do the science. So I did the science. And now I told my colleagues, 'the EMDR is a kickass treatment. My colleague said: 'I don't believe you.' So, before we did the study, it was a scientific question. Now that we've done the science, it becomes a religious question. People tend to be more lead by opinions than by facts. People are very devoted to their beliefs."

What are the benefits of EMDR therapy?

What is neurofeedback?

MDMA assisted psychotherapy.

What is Internal Family Systems?

How trauma and resilience cross generations.

Rap Guide to Evolution Music

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Sexual Double Standards

The Bias Against Understanding the Biological Foundations of Women's Behavior.
"Combating the forces that make people back off of scientific findings that might be controversial."

A Conversation with Martie Haselton, here.

We don’t know enough about important issues that impact women. We don’t know enough about potential side effects of using hormonal contraception. There’s a lot of speculation about it, but most of that speculation is problematic. If you eliminate women’s hormone cycles, what are the implications? That’s an important question. We still don’t know enough about hormone supplements for women later in life. We don’t even know enough about fertility. The data are also problematic. The data on fertility in women’s third, fourth, fifth decades of life are based on ancient records, 200 years old. The statistics that doctors will cite when they are telling women whether they need to see a fertility specialist or not are from a period before modern medicine was really in place, which is outrageous. More recognition of the biological influences on women’s behavior is going to awaken these areas of research, and that will have a positive impact. ​MARTIE HASELTON is a professor of psychology and communication studies at the Institute for Society and Genetics and UCLA. She is the author of Hormonal: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones—How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser.

More about Martie Haselton

"We have a study that shows that women, when they start new relationships and then they say that they have fallen in love with their partner, their immune gene transcription profile suggests that they are increasing their anti-viral resistance." [min29:12]

Mind over matter

Dr. Kim Penberthy: Mindfulness and Altered States of Consciousness

Dialectical Behaviour therapy
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Marsha Linehan

Jabberwocky

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

      And the mome raths outgrabe. 

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 

      The frumious Bandersnatch!” 

He took his vorpal sword in hand; 

      Long time the manxome foe he sought— 

So rested he by the Tumtum tree 

      And stood awhile in thought. 

And, as in uffish thought he stood, 

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, 

      And burbled as it came! 

One, two! One, two! And through and through 

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 

He left it dead, and with its head 

      He went galumphing back. 

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” 

      He chortled in his joy. 

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

      And the mome raths outgrabe.
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky