Have been away & less connected to the Internet so just now catching up reading this piece on interconnectedness. Interesting that we currently connect often in ways that are less personal & more remote. I suspect also that the amount of available stimuli is overwhelming to whatever sense of interconnectedness we have. Also that living from a place of interconnection requires reclaiming our perspective by a healthy disconnect from what doesn't serve us. Thanks once again for your thought provoking writing!
Thanks, Carol. I really like how you’ve linked maintaining a sense of being interconnected with practicing a “healthy disconnect”. Lots to contemplate there!
I like the idea of interdependence as something that can be healthy or unhealthy. Like it's an inescapable fact of reality, you're not getting rid of it, just choosing how to confront it. I'd say a healthy interconnectedness is based on mutual affirmation, recognizing we're autonomous but we also overlap, and that feedbkac loop makes us richer. While unhealthy interconnectedness is negation, thinking we're so separate that we're mutually exclusive and one's existence can only be fully realized by the elimination of the other. But even a literal elemination, like say, the genocidal projects at the extremes of the Israel-Palestina divide, wouldn't get away from the problem of the Other, they would just have to cohabitate with the unbearable absence of the remaining half. It was Remembrance Day recently in my country and I thought a lot about the weight we still feel from those who were made to bo longer be with us. Great post.
I really like your concepts of healthy and unhealthy forms of interconnectedness, Eloy - healthy as mutual affirmation, and unhealthy as negation (which certainly seems to be an apt descriptor of what's been taking place between the state of Israel and the Palestinian peoples for much too long now). And my thoughts are with you as you mark Remembrance Day - I can hardly imagine the anguish that you and your fellow citizens have suffered, and are still living with. All my good wishes to you and to them.
Have been away & less connected to the Internet so just now catching up reading this piece on interconnectedness. Interesting that we currently connect often in ways that are less personal & more remote. I suspect also that the amount of available stimuli is overwhelming to whatever sense of interconnectedness we have. Also that living from a place of interconnection requires reclaiming our perspective by a healthy disconnect from what doesn't serve us. Thanks once again for your thought provoking writing!
Thanks, Carol. I really like how you’ve linked maintaining a sense of being interconnected with practicing a “healthy disconnect”. Lots to contemplate there!
I like the idea of interdependence as something that can be healthy or unhealthy. Like it's an inescapable fact of reality, you're not getting rid of it, just choosing how to confront it. I'd say a healthy interconnectedness is based on mutual affirmation, recognizing we're autonomous but we also overlap, and that feedbkac loop makes us richer. While unhealthy interconnectedness is negation, thinking we're so separate that we're mutually exclusive and one's existence can only be fully realized by the elimination of the other. But even a literal elemination, like say, the genocidal projects at the extremes of the Israel-Palestina divide, wouldn't get away from the problem of the Other, they would just have to cohabitate with the unbearable absence of the remaining half. It was Remembrance Day recently in my country and I thought a lot about the weight we still feel from those who were made to bo longer be with us. Great post.
I really like your concepts of healthy and unhealthy forms of interconnectedness, Eloy - healthy as mutual affirmation, and unhealthy as negation (which certainly seems to be an apt descriptor of what's been taking place between the state of Israel and the Palestinian peoples for much too long now). And my thoughts are with you as you mark Remembrance Day - I can hardly imagine the anguish that you and your fellow citizens have suffered, and are still living with. All my good wishes to you and to them.