PETA cofounder Ingrid Newkirk says she's sending Elon Musk a third of her heart when she dies because she doesn't think he has one
The article in the link above about Elon Musk being heartless brought to mind the words Alice Miller wrote below in her article Unlived Anger.
Our world doesn't need more geniuses! What our world needs most is people with the courage to open their eyes to see and feel the real state of affairs.
"An American professor, for example, has been conducting experiments for years with brain transplants. In an interview with the magazine Tele, he reports that he has already succeeded in replacing the brain of one monkey with that of another. He does not doubt that in the foreseeable future, it will be possible to do the same thing with human beings.
Readers have a choice here: they can be thrilled at so much scientific progress, or they can wonder how such absurdity can be possible and what purpose such pursuits can serve. But a piece of seemingly unimportant information may produce an "aha" reaction in them, for Professor White speaks of "religious feelings" connected with his endeavor.
Questioned by the interviewer, he explains that he had a very strict Catholic upbringing and in the opinion of his ten children had been raised like a dinosaur.
I don't know what is meant by this, but I can imagine that this image refers to antediluvian methods of child-rearing.
What does that have to do with his scientific work? Perhaps this is the unconscious background for Professor White's experiments: by devoting all his energy and vitality to the goal of one day being able to transplant brains in human beings, he is fulfilling his long-harbored infantile wish to be able to replace his parents' brains.
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation."
"A defenseless child that is tortured and at the same time forbidden to defend itself, to cry, to scream, to rage—to live. A child from whom only obedience and good behavior are expected. The only thing remaining to him, if he has talent, is to develop a dazzling intellect. Life escapes him daily. Abstract thought offers a chance of survival. In the meantime, the body seeks to express its terrible distress in other ways than tears and screams. It produces an endless catalogue of symptoms, in the hope that someone will finally sit up and take notice and perhaps ask the [question]: "What is causing you such distress?" (Alice Miller, on Nietzsche, from Breaking Down the Wall of Silence)
Elon Musk also has shared that he had a not-very-nice childhood but has not resolved the repressed emotions of the child he once was and is running from his painful emotions with his sharp intellect and work, and developing the technology to one day escape to Mars. It's pure madness.
Definition of life: life is a sexually transmitted incurable disease. I am kidding around, but think about it, it’s true!
It takes courage to see and speak the truth, intelligence alone is not enough, but it rather helps to create a lot of seductive lies that ring like truth.
When we are open and attentive to our true feelings and follow them -- we are being honest -- and as an honest person -- we have better chances to meet other honest people with whom we can connect on a deeper level and that is extraordinary, and definitely worth living for.
When people are not able to face and feel at the conscious level a painful truth, they will always use rationalizations and the intellect to create a smoke screen to hide the facts from themselves and others --- and they rather shoot the messenger than face and feel at the conscious level their own painful truths.
The quote below by Alice Miller could not be truer! I witness people doing this every day, especially online! People compulsively preach and try to educate others, but they themselves have not been able to face and feel at the conscious level their own painful truths and liberate themselves from their own emotional prison.
“To many people it seems easier to take medication, to smoke, drink alcoholic, preach, educate or treat others, and prepare wars than expose themselves to their own painful truth.” From the book banished knowledge by Alice Miller
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