Love Expands Intelligence LO27549

From: ACampnona@aol.com
Date: 11/15/01


Replying to LO27540 --

I would like to prevail upon an idea or two;-)

'" -acting and speaking men need the help of homo faber in his highest
capacity that is the help of artists, poets and histiographers, of
movement builders or writers, because without them the only product of
their activity, the story they enact and tell, would not survive at all.
In order to be what the world is always meant to be, a home for men during
life on earth, the human artifice must be a place fit for action and
speech, for activities not only entirely useless for the necessities of
life but of an entirely different nature from the manifold activities of
fabrication by which the world itself and all things are produced..."
Arendt

And,

Letting Go Into Love?

Humberto Maturana wrote,

"We are not talking about love as a virtue or as something good from a
moral, religious, or philosophical perspective. We are talking biology, we
are talking about our animal constitution as the particular kind of
primates that we are as members of an evolutionary trend centered around
the conservation of the biology of love and the expansion of intelligence.
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic
emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. Furthermore, we shall
remain humans of the kind Homo sapiens amans , only as long as love
remains as the central emotion in the systemic conservation of our
particular human identity as such, so that we do not become Homo sapiens
aggressans through the conservation of living in aggression. It is as
loving languaging beings that we can still become aware of what it is to
be a human being, and it is only as loving animals that we can still
create the conditions for the upbringing of our children in the
mother/child relation and, later, in the schools and during their growth
into adulthood, in a way that they grow and conserve themselves as self
respecting socially conscious loving and caring adults by living with them
in the biology of love. Love is our natural condition, and it is the
denial of love what requires all our rational efforts, but what for, when
life is so much better in love than in aggression? Love needs not to be
learned, it can be allowed to be or it can be denied, but needs not to be
learned, because it is our biological fundament and the only basis for the
conservation of our human beingness as well as our well being. Love is not
a virtue, indeed love is nothing special, it is only the fundament of our
human existence as the kind of primates that we are as human beings. At
difference from love, aggression needs to be cultivated or it fades away
as we meet each other in the simplicity of our humanness. The systematic
systemic denial of love through conversations that through rational
arguments that use notions of efficiency, economy, progress, purity,
obedience to god, or perfection, pretend to justify such negation, and is
a carefully cultivated feature of our patriarchal culture. But the denial
of love, is the source of all human suffering as an addiction to
righteousness and pain. Let us abandon this addiction, let us stop
cultivating aggression as a manner of living that leads to the prevalence
of the Homo sapiens aggressans that is already with us, let us live in the
biology of love, let us open our intelligence in a conspiracy that leads
to the prevalence of Homo sapiens amans . Why not? Is it difficult, or is
it that we do not want to do so out of greediness, ambition, envy, or
fear? Well, which ever the case, love is the cure as it opens our
intelligence for reflection and give us the possibility to choose, and as
we choose in awareness of our human condition, love becomes our basic
reference, because the biology of love is still our ultimate ground and
source of recovery of any distress though our realization as human
beings."

Andrew Campbell

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