Puur re: 6-3-'04 {primitive thought}


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primitive thought
{re: 6-3-'04}
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And now
let us indulge
once more
again in a very interesting
speculation:
HOW
did it feel to be a man
{woman or child!}
in those early days
of our human
myDi-
adventures?

~

HOW
did men think
and WHAT did they think
in those remote days of hunting and wandering
hundreds of centuries ago
before seed time and harvest
began?

~

Those were days
long before our written records
of any human impressions,
and we are left almost entirely to inference and guesswork in our answers
to these myDi-questions?

~

The sources
to which scientific people have gone
in their attemps to reconstruct that primitive mentality
are very various ...

~

The 'science'
of psycho-analysis,
which scrutinizes the way in which the egotistic and passionate impulses
of the child are restrained,
suppressed, modified or overlaid,
to adapt them to the needs of social life,
seems to have thrown a considerable amount of light
upon the history of primitive society;
and another fruitful source of suggestion
has been the study of the ideas and customs
of such contemporary 'savages'
as still survive
today
...




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Again
there is
a sort of
mental fossilisation
which we find in folk-lore
and the deep-lying irrational superstitions and prejudices
that still survive among 'modern civilised'
people?

~

And finally we have
in the increasing numerous pictures,
statues, carvings, symbols and the like,
as we draw near to our own time,
clearer and clearer indications of what man found interesting and worthy
of record and representation!

~

PRIMITIVE man
probably thought very much as a child thinks,
that is to say,
in a series of imaginative pictures.
He conjured up images
or images presented themselves to his mind,
and he acted in accordance with the emotions they
aroused.

~

SO
a child or an uneducated person does today?
Systematic thinking is apparently a comparatively late development
in human experience;
it has not played any great part in human life until
within the last 4000 years?

~

And even today
those who really control and order their thoughts
are but a small minority of mankind ...
MOST of the world
still lives by imagination
and passion!

~

Probably
the earliest human societies,
in the opening stages of the true 'human' story,
were small family groups.
Just as
the flocks and herds of the earlier mammals arose out of families
which remained together and multiplied,
SO probably did the earliest
tribes ........

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But before this could happen
a certain restraint upon the primitive egotisms of the individual
had to be established.

~

The fear of the father
and respect for the mother
had to be extended into adult life,
and the natural jealousy of the old man of the group
for the younger males as they grew up
had to be mitigated.

~

The mother on the other hand
was the natural advisor and protector of the young.
Human social life grew up out of the reaction between the crude instinct
of the young to go off and pair themselves as they grew up,
on the one hand,
and the dangers and disadvantages of isolation
on the other .............

~

Primal law has shown
how much of the customary law of 'savages',
the tabus, that are so remarkable a fact in tribal life,
can be ascribed to such a mental adjustment of the needs
of the primitive human animal
to developing social life,
and the later work of psycho-analysts and psychiatrists has done much
to confirm this interpretation of these
possibilities ........

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SOME
speculative writers
would have us believe
that respect and fear of the Old Man
and the emotional reaction of the primitive savage
to older protective women,
exaggerated in dreams and enriched by fanciful mental play,
formed a large part in the beginnings of primitive religion
and in the conception of gods and
goddesses ...

~

ASSOCIATED
with this respect for powerful or helpful personalities
was a dread and exultation of such personages after their deaths,
due to their reappearance in dreams.
IT WAS EASY
to believe they were not truly dead
but only fantastically transferred to a remoteness
of greater power?!

~

The dreams,
imaginations and fears of a child are far more vivid and real
than those of a modern adult,
and primitive man was always something of a child.
He was nearer to animals also,
and he could suppose them to have motives and reactions
like his own! {See a.o. 'lunapussy', 'parrotfriends' & Janosch?}

~

He could even
imagine animal helpers,
animal enemies, animal gods!?!
One needs to have been an imaginative child oneself to realise again
how important, significant, portentous or friendly,
strangely shaped rocks,
lumps of wood,
exceptional trees or the like
may have appeared to the men of the Old Stone Age,
and how dram and fancy
would create stories and legends about such things
that would become credible
as they were told!!!

~

SOME
of these myDi-stories would be good enough to remember
and tell again
..............
The women would tell them to the children and so establish a tradition.
TO THIS VERY DAY
most imaginative children invent long stories
in which some favourite doll or animal
or some fantastic semi-human being figures as the hero,
and primitive man probably did the same -
with a much stronger disposition to believe his hero
REAL
.............

~

For the very earliest of 'true' men that we know of,
were probably quite talkative beings as also myDiary proves every day?
In THAT way they might probably also have differed from the 'neanderthalers' and had an advantage over
them?

~

The 'neanderthaler'
may have been
a 'dumber' animal compared to 'us'?
And of course the primitive human speech was probably a very scanty
collection of names {see: schrijverslijst?}, and may have been eked out with lots of gestures and signs?
{emoticons, thumbs up & down, mimics!}

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THERE is
no sort of savage so low
as not to have a kind of science of cause and effect?
But primitive man was not very critical in his myDi-associations of cause
with effect; he very easily connected an effect with something
quite alien to its cause:
"You do so and so,"
he said,
"and so and so happens!"

~

And this very
old and primitive Ch@i
is getting tired and going to sleep NOW,
before it's too late again to brush teeth and he will fall asleep again
in front of the campfire and dream wild dreams
of neanderthalers, myDi-ers
and other monkeys and apes,
pussycats &
parrotfriends!?!

Sleep well
& sweet dreams:
see you tomorrow {today}?!
Or tonight in the eternal green
pastures of dream~
land?
engel
21 jun 2004 - bewerkt op 05 jan 2008 - meld ongepast verhaal
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