Many of us have fixed beliefs from birth. Many of us spend our lives open-minded. Some are tied down to one idea because of their lazy intellect and others develop a true awareness from exposure to various experiences. The development of human intelligence itself is incredible, but using our intelligence to create experiences in this reality is nature’s gift to us. We have the ability to perceive and observe existence on this planet. The amazing thing is, each of us have a choice of being. We can be anything we want to be because of our developed intelligence. If we fail to branch out from one idea, nature will not stop and wait for us. The most adaptable will do the incredible- colonize a different planet, cure all disease, and end world hunger. Our adaption is our intelligence. We are a stupid monkey, but we have to know how to think.
First of all, there are four different levels of human experience: Feelings, Beliefs, Facts, and Ideas. All have gradually deeper concepts in reality, respectively.
1. Feelings: simply reasonless emotion. Cause and effect- You are happy because of good and sad because of evil, simply put. There are no moral solutions. Feelings exist as passive experiences of the senses.
2. Beliefs: On a social level, beliefs are controlled by religion in generations. Reasoning and morality can be thought of within the core of that belief only. A believer has a perception of reality that is filtered by their beliefs. ”If one does not believe in flute players, than one must not believe in flute music.” -Socrates
3. Facts: The center of actuality. Facts are to be reasoned by proofs. You cannot step into the same river twice because it is a continuous process of a greater force. Morally, humans use facts as a gateway to superficial authority.
4. Ideas: With imagination we can create new and fascinating realities. Once we have understanding from a factual aspect our growing intelligence leads us to construct new ideas. Those advanced ideas fire up our innate responsibility as a being to accelerate the process of mentally molding the physical world we perceive.
Alexander Mcqueen spring/summer 2010 details.
