tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post5550398045699938915..comments2023-11-02T05:17:01.705-04:00Comments on Dr. Sanity: ENVY, RESENTMENT, AND HUMAN NATUREDr. Sanityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490927712024477670noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-68748566255130413032012-07-06T10:55:40.253-04:002012-07-06T10:55:40.253-04:00Dr. Sanity have no idea how much I appreciate your...Dr. Sanity have no idea how much I appreciate your insightful post... I've learned more then a a whole semester intro psychology class. Please, don't stop I'll continue reading you...<br /><br />Thank you!<br /><br />MarMarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-3747175869193138852012-06-05T03:03:55.631-04:002012-06-05T03:03:55.631-04:00Evil is what the other guy is and does.Evil is what the other guy is and does.PacRim Jimhttp://www.pacrimjim.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-26513765916621587622012-06-02T16:34:50.371-04:002012-06-02T16:34:50.371-04:00Wasn't original sin motivated by envy? Adam an...Wasn't original sin motivated by envy? Adam and Eve were OK with leaving the forbidden fruit alone until tempted through envy. Envy existed before our fall from grace.KDaunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17835855690795827425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-85969219923647424232012-06-02T13:55:56.994-04:002012-06-02T13:55:56.994-04:00"I am quite happy," the visitor commente..."I am quite happy," the visitor commented to the sage.<br />The sage replied, "Are you happy because you have what you want, or are you happy because you don't want what you do not have?"<br /><br />The sage was Nisargadatta Maharaj [see the book of interviews, 'I Am That']. The visitor is each one of us. How we answer the sage is a measure of our maturity and sanity.Famously Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-87495165692480088032012-06-01T23:18:09.314-04:002012-06-01T23:18:09.314-04:00I do not think humans have a dark side, nor a ligh...I do not think humans have a dark side, nor a light side for that matter. Instead, the unusual strategy of this particular species is to make choices based on a process they like to call reason. In humans, these sorts of feelings (e.g. envy) are NOT hardwired but rather based on their value system. If they were hardwired, the constant tension between their free will and their hardwiring would have wiped them out of the Darwinian pool long ago. Those silly scientists saw a correlation between A and B and assumed that A causes B, when with a little logic they would have seen that B causing A would make a whole lot better sense as a hypothesis. <br />‘These two systems are linked, so that the mirror neuron system kicks on and tells the brain’s valuation system to rank the object highly, the team’s analyses of the brain scans revealed.’<br />Or <br />‘These two systems are linked, so that the brain’s valuation system kicks on, ranks the object highly, and tells the mirror neuron system to turn on, the team’s analyses of the brain scans revealed.’<br />Do these people have the slightest idea of the number of genes that would have to be involved to hardwire something like envy – many times more than the entire human genome, without doubt.<br />(It reminds me of those so-called ‘scientific studies’ which purport to show that homosexuality is hardwired when it can easily be shown that even the ability to distinguish between male and female is not.)<br /> And, to rate something that someone else wants more highly; well, that’s just simple logical for a social animal like humans. You don’t need any complex theory to explain it. I wish I was a psychologist and could get published that easily, rather than a biochemist which means I have to do real work (note the envy/irony in that previous statement) Sigh. <br />Any given person can change from admiration and envy and then back again in a heartbeat, depending on whether you take stock of their feelings before OR after they’ve had their morning coffee.Steve D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-84789219646680396562012-06-01T16:44:16.742-04:002012-06-01T16:44:16.742-04:00Envy is the only sin to get listed twice in the Te...Envy is the only sin to get listed twice in the Ten Commandments, both the ninth and the tenth. The reason, no doubt, it that it is the most destructive of all of the “thou shall not’s" in its repercussions to a community or society. <br /><br />I’ve often wondered why envy gets two mentions in the Ten Commandments. My guess is that it is because there are two different manifestations of envy. First is the envy of the possessions of others and second is the envy of the talents, abilities and opportunities of others.wildirishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387610481167389692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-12297071830205637882012-05-31T14:49:23.720-04:002012-05-31T14:49:23.720-04:00Envy, in and of itself, isn't the problem. The...Envy, in and of itself, isn't the problem. The problem is the expectation that society will satisfy your envy by either giving you what you desire or destroying what you cannot have.Rob Crawfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03010767328260010949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-36831605320617834872012-05-31T13:41:58.120-04:002012-05-31T13:41:58.120-04:00Great article. There's an old Slavic fable ab...Great article. There's an old Slavic fable about envy.<br /><br />God tells the peasant Ivan that he can have anything he wants, but only on the condition that his neighbor Boris will get twice as much.<br /><br />Ivan thinks for a while and then says to God, "Please God, give me the gift of having just one of my eyes plucked out."<br /><br />Nietzsche pointed out that when you have a society based solely on merit, rather than royal birth or other traditional hierarchies, some people will not be able to accept their failures as based on their own lack of merit. Such people will invent new excuses to consider themselves victims. That is precisely what is happening in America today. The Democrats invent the excuses for those people, rather than helping them to figure out how to remediate their deficiencies.<br /><br />The fable is in Deidre McCloskey, "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World," U of Chicago, 2010.Glorianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-74438988468093368852012-05-31T13:01:32.452-04:002012-05-31T13:01:32.452-04:00Dr. Schoeck published a book on the subject of env...Dr. Schoeck published a book on the subject of envy. He points out that altruism is a manifestation of envy. Here is a link.<br /><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Envy.+A+Theory+of+Social+Behavior.-a0164872247" rel="nofollow">Envy. A Theory of Social Behavior.</a>Raynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-81277532673088253852012-05-31T09:10:58.431-04:002012-05-31T09:10:58.431-04:00Perspective, it has a place here, does it not? So...Perspective, it has a place here, does it not? Social order, in the aggregate, serves a purpose, does it not?<br /><br />Then there is that classic argument of the individual versus the crowd. Group dynamics plays an important role in many disciplines, right?<br /><br />Male versus female dynamics do exist, don't they?<br /><br />I want what others have, some of those others may also want what I have. I am both liberal and conservative.<br /><br />Socrates suggested the hardest goal might be to "know thyself" did he not?<br /><br />I wonder why, I wonder why...RJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7565573.post-77056347318804468412012-05-30T16:38:34.990-04:002012-05-30T16:38:34.990-04:00As usual spot-on and I linked your blog post to a ...As usual spot-on and I linked your blog post to a small article I just posted which is a review of an interview with Julian Assange. Talk about envy and hatred, without any constructive plans except destruction. Scary people getting more and more power in the public imagination....Is it an accident that Russian Television showed this interview? Americans as SO blind to truth right now I do not know what will make most of them understand what is really happening on the European stage, as well as in the States. Keep up the good work on this blog, please....Supertradmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829935047036023159noreply@blogger.com