tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post8290319265359449334..comments2024-01-31T16:23:51.283-07:00Comments on Keye Commentary: The Goal of LifeJames Keyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-37464980826883958352008-12-10T12:43:00.000-07:002008-12-10T12:43:00.000-07:00I am adding a layer of definition to the Joe Campb...I am adding a layer of definition to the Joe Campbell formula "follow your bless" to include the idea that a species of life has a species' bless. A beaver can't be a beaver in a concrete pond -- even if it has never lived elsewhere. A species has a 'way.' For humans, these days, it is a life's work just to rediscover being alive as a member of the human species. I conclude it is well worth it; it is the one thing worth doing.... just ask the beaver!James Keyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-79785393991391537172008-12-10T10:28:00.000-07:002008-12-10T10:28:00.000-07:00Sage advice. My only addendum would be to slightl...Sage advice. My only addendum would be to slightly rephrase the formula. As the historians McNeill and McNeill say in their worthwhile book, _The Human Web_, the universal goal of human life seems to be to arrange one's life and circumstances to come as close as possible to one's ideals/hopes.<BR/><BR/>Of course, what you're saying is that what we conceive of as ideals and hopes is the linchpin. We radically underestimate the place of biology, having been steeped in cornucopian "no limits" dogma. We also radically underestimate what I the importance of sociology, which can explain the why and the how of the huge ways our ideals and hopes are coerced.Michael Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353560855423670828noreply@blogger.com