A sheltered society is one that thinks for itself, a society connected to others loses its sense of self?
Do we lose creative minds and individual ideas as we become more and more one society connected across the world. Do we gain characteristics from others instead of creating our own?
Sheltered does not mean controled. But thanks for the answer.
Sheltered does not mean controled. But thanks for the answer.
By: I Ain’t Your Momma
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Filed under Philosophy by on Dec 24th, 2009. 
Comments on A sheltered society is one that thinks for itself, a society connected to others loses its sense of self?
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Yes. there is no such thing as a collective mind. Just individual minds that sacrifice themselves willingly to the collective. Which precedes the death of the body, thus the death of the society. Self sacrifice (altruism ) is the moral code of the day and the ends of self sacrifice is self sacrifice!
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It is in our connectedness that we experience love and joy. I choose these over a fearful need to think I am disconnected.
edit..it is in our effort to love, in our uniting, that we develop character
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No. A sheltered society is one where a king or dictator or God(s) (for example Hitler’s Germany) uses any and all means to control the ‘creative minds and individual ideas’ of its members. This is not necessarily a bad thing (Ainu, Aboriginals et. al.) in sheltered societies w/ a benevolent leader.
Interaction w/ other societies enriches our own ‘individualism’ in a benevolent environment.
Of course in reality this is not always true since xenophobic, war-mongering societies will try and conquer sheltered societies in which case what choice to sheltered societies have but to protect themselves out of self-preservation (c.f. Native Americans) notwithstanding their internal beliefs.
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we become inspired. and as we discover and learn and ponder more, we feed off of the worlds ideas and we take them to new levels as individuals.
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Trouble with sheltered societies, or individuals for that matter, is that their ideas go untested. So they can decide they are Roger Rabbit and there’s no one to disagree. Ideas are vetted by exposure to other people, other viewpoints. This necessarily requires interaction with other …. fill in the blank – societies, people, and so on.
I don’t think we lose individuality, at least not legitimate individuality, but it does take a toll on delusion and denial.