Mental Utopia

Michael Clemons

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 An Attempt At Reform Of The Educational

System In America And Beyond

Chapter 2 Examining Some Processes

In Behavioral Studies

Chapter 3 Mental Utopia

Chapter 4 For Your Diet And Health

Chapter 5 We Don’t Want To

Be Like You

Chapter 6 Racism

Chapter 7 Religion

Chapter 8 Steps To Cure Depression

Chapter 9 Justice

Chapter 10 A Government For

The World

Chapter 11 Love Is More Important

Than Race

Chapter 12 Collectivism Versus Individualism

Epilogue

Introduction

When those who are called authority figures give mandates that fail to represent any values non-conformists to such mandates find acceptable to comply to, and anger/anguish arises in an authority figures mind from any deviation from compliance to their mandates, I believe that anger exudes of the quality of absurd foolishness, and caters to what people call irrational. Do you find it hard to believe a person might react to social mandates in a questioning manner instead of mere obedience and still be able to enjoy the freedom to think and act in different styles of human intercourse from what is said to be orthodox for the society he or she lives, while fully able to achieve their goals for the fulfillment of job obligations or personal benefit? Moreover, are you offended by those people who live and work in your towns, other towns, or other nations, that have customs or ways of behavior that you just don’t understand how they could practice such deviation from how you were raised? Why?

My manuscript, Mental Utopia, will attempt to bring to attention how behavioral idiosyncrasies of people do not have to cause grief and anger among those who are committed to preserving the style of culture they are used to.

Mental Utopia will address issues that might seem provocative to both non secular and secular types, and will offer suggestions on how to maneuver what’s seen as crisis into a state of mental well-being, while attempting to evoke an intellectual evolution not only in our educational system, but many areas of government process as well.

The values of educators, doctors, and some that represent what Western civilized communities may call aristocrats are put to test as Mental Utopia will analyze the roles of those said to be leaders in order to see if those people are accomplishing priorities that are descriptive of how their job titles say they are to function, or are just leaders in name only.

The so called authority figures you swear by may be the persons you have come to trust, but who can guarantee the word of an authority figure is unquestionably the most effectual way for you as an individual to achieve your goals? Is there a reason for you to settle for the same value system for your life all of your life if you aren’t truly comfortable with the way you’re living? Was your happiness determined by what others said was esteem, or didn’t you notice that the wants of the land were at one time the wants of just one person with a blueprint? Who says you can’t have your own blueprint, with your name on that blueprint as the author? Who can guarantee you have to die mentally anguished at the hands of others who don’t share your interests? Please read further…

Chapter 1

An Attempt at Reform of the Educational System in America and Beyond

Competency in job function is highly stressed in American educational institutions. Yet many of the leaders of these American educational institutions continue to sanction as mandatory curriculum ideals that foster obsolete sophisms that I believe blind many students to objective thought processes. The word logic is said of how people might have acquired what is more practical for themselves in pursuit of goals, but since what’s practical isn’t really proven to be the same for all people, then a more realistic method of thought is needed instead of suppositions of the concept of practical as being mostly of similar value among all people, which may cause some people tension when they are confronted by others whose morals and behaviors are different. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the United States needs to establish one set of academic standards rather than 50 different sets of academic standards; one national exam aligned to the same standard of academic achievement in all 50 states. Perhaps the same text materials are needed in all U.S. schools. Academic achievement of students is measured based on students proficiency skills in generalized areas. My concern is that some of what educators say is proper criteria for measuring students academic progress is only measuring obsolete concepts that make for perspectives that are not empiricism based. Empiricism is to experiment (question) before making conclusions about an object, not to determine the nature of an object by supposition or theory, for what is the most rational way of approaching a subject or object for an individual. Doing what successful authority says may be rational, but not empirical. There may be more efficient ways of solving problems. Empiricism may help. Educators can’t assume students are empirical when not specializing in empiricism.

I am prepared to give you readers some idea of what areas I believe need to be addressed for a more successful educational curriculum for the United States and the Earth. From this point on I will present my claims in a manner that I believe you will view as empirical rather than sophist to show how empiricism is a more rational outlook for not only students, but for all mankind. Rational thought is an essential for mental utopia, and what’s practical for the individual.

For those who say English literature/race literature should be a part of the curriculum of most educational programs, I believe English literature only caters to fantasy, and has no more value in creating in students skills in critical thinking/empiricism styles for problem solving than Porky the Pig comic books. I can see a need for English composition courses for future journalism students, but reading of English literature doesn’t guarantee skills in writing literature. Another claim by some educators is that English lit/race literature somehow represents diversity among different subspecies/races and helps ‘broaden the horizons’ of the student, perhaps enlightening students minds for them to better cope with the world. Prove that all people of the same race/ethnic group will act in the same lifestyles or mannerisms as their own kind for fictional tales based on race to represent anything in a students day-to-day real life dealings. If race literature students read is non-fiction, how do the experiences of the author of such literature guaranteed have anything to do with what students experience throughout the course of students lives? If fiction literature is phased out of elementary/high school and college/university, then more time can be given to math. Schools need to promote critical thinking in students so as to help create a more objectivist environment for problem solving. I also believe that critical thinking courses should be mandatory in high schools worldwide. I took a look at a movie called ‘American History X’(1997). I believe that the movie had a scene where a father told his children not to take Black literature as seriously as the ‘right literature’. The movie fails, in my opinion, to point out that literature classes about any race usually don’t prepare students for careers in medicine or engineering and don’t offer many job skills, and lit class doesn’t prepare students for proficiency in critical thinking. For students seeking to attend university in California, as of year 2000, without critical thinking class credits students are not allowed entrance into the California State university system no matter how good their grade point average is.

My response to some people seeing the need for any countries educational system continuing to value courses in non science history is that knowing a nation’s religion and culture will not guaranteed stop egoism of men to ensure any effectuality in stopping wars on this Earth. Also, history classes that are non science are no more than inertia, and aren’t designed to instill in students the powers of objective thought for non bias study of social mores.

I feel that a lot of concepts I heard while going to school were based on no more than suppositions. My society has preconditioned some to believe they need to feel things like anger. Even if man can control a certain amount of physical/chemical reactions, probable is still a presumptuous idea. Prove without theoretic that many human emotions said to exist are a naturally occurring part of any human life, as if all peoples values are the same. Can you prove the emotion of anger is natural when it hasn’t been proven that all humans experience the same emotions or degree of emotional response to objects external to the human brain as the next human is said to be able to experience? How do you guaranteed feel what someone said you will feel just because you’re human? Can you prove that I will feel humbled by my failures when supposed to isn’t proven to be tangible existence for me to feel sorry for myself or others? Supposed to is usually no more than words that you might either choose to obey or decide not to obey at all. Think that you are special in the universe. If you see yourself as the most important thing to care for in life, then you don’t really see anything as great as yourself, so why would you have regrets when things don’t go your way, as if you need some object inferior to yourself for pride and happiness? If you have no regrets, how will you have hatred, or be a victim? Empirical reasoning is to question conventions.

I don’t recall any high school or university courses prompting students to think in any way that focuses on improving self esteem. I have seen outlines of Ayn Rand books at bookstores located near the University of Cincinnati campus that do supply books for class instruction at that school. Ayn Rand books are mainly concerned with fostering egoism in people.

When you embraced grief or anger, I believe it wasn’t a rational act, and you were only imitating someone else who had grief or anger in response to loss of pride in their life instead of facing reality knowing life has no guarantees. Why are you going to resort to loss of pride just because things went different than you had planned? Surely your pride is more than that of a victim, right? You were not given irrefutable proof that you were supposed to be hurt by anything, not from any chemistry or psychology text. So, why do you let people make a fool out of you and let people control your happiness, when you and your happiness are more important than anything or anyone?

Literature in schools, and also television programs, are proliferate in ideas of tragedy. I believe another way to eradicate grief out of posterities minds is for schools to eliminate the concept of death and loss as tragedy and view luxury as no more than an illusion. How can luxury be only an illusion? Let me explain… If men with nothing but a welfare check are glad of that life and glad to get that much, then choose not to pursue free college grants or try for employment and are satisfied, or, I drink a $300.00 bottle of wine and then say the wine was garbage because I don’t like wine or need it, then prove there is agreement on what’s luxury. One man’s god is another man’s dog: what is luxury to some isn’t luxury to all. In that case, how is there luxury period, instead of what is practical for you as an individual? Why suffer over gain or loss? Luxury and squalor are just mere words when I like what I get and afford, and if that’s the case, then someone who says that theirs is better than mine is not guaranteed to prove such. Is life better for you when what I get is practical and I am satisfied with it? Who needs more than what is enough for the individual to have to fulfill human physiological needs to be able to feel happiness? People may think that more than enough is luxury, but in reality it’s being practical, and being practical again is not the same for all people. Be rational for the practical.

All the things man says are tragedies are not guaranteed mental pain for any and all humans, so why let suppositions of tragedy make a fool of you? Ideas of tragedy are perpetuated by wallowing in anti-scientific forms of history compared to evolution in raising self-esteem and the level of science technology. You usually have physical comfort no matter what amount of money you have. Money doesn’t guaranteed buy you respect, though some people I’ve met act like it. So much for tragedy. And respect might not be needed, but it might earn trust. To question life’s so called trials is empirical. Doesn’t that seem practical?

I’ve lived in many different cities in America, and everywhere the local newspapers are constantly full of reports of drug abuse. Many times I put drugs before rent and food and I’ve seen it happen to many other people. I was just another weak-minded alcohol and drug addict for many years, going thru life abusing drugs until I had no house purchases, car, or wife. Even though I had university education, I continued to live my life abusing drugs. But one day I looked at my predicament more closely, and thought for a minute. Then I came up with the idea that no conventionalism should be engaged in without questioning it, no matter what that convention or habit was. At that point I said no to the habit that had me thinking I needed drugs to the extent where I lived tired all the time from drug abuse. I said no to settling for going to the park bench or going hungry just to fulfill drug habits that had gotten completely out of control. I said no to continuing to associate myself with people that didn’t care for me for friendship or sex unless I conformed to them and used drugs. I said no to the convention that racism needed to continue to be the criteria for my decisions as to whom to associate with. I said no and put an end to my supposition that those who claim to know what is best for me couldn’t be flawed in their judgments, just because they have some type of letters or degrees. That line of thought helped put me on the path to empiricism.

You might wonder how not to be brainwashed into the complacency of engaging in activities that you feel are not in your best interest when you are only human. A lot of people believe that you will be subject to the same likes and wants that many people may have because of emotion. You weren’t born knowing what hatred is, or born offended by sex with different races/ religions/nations. So how can you not know how to be rational, like before you were told that you needed to be hateful of anything? How can you practice racism without trying interracial sex with all races for yourself, instead of believe in race bigots who don’t prove race mixing is detrimental to medical science? When I was a university student in the chemistry department, the way to think was hands on experience, or I’ll be the judge of it (an example of using empiricism; empiricism is very practical). No one else can know what’s right for you if you already know for yourself, from your own experiments(empiricism). What other emotion would you have to experience if you can start to view the world with objective realism, and can also see that most emotions that irritate seem brainwashed into people by a manipulator who wants things to go their way for their selfish ends, except happiness from physical comfort? Do you see any reason for grief? Where is the proof that mental anguish/anger will exist outside of other peoples minds? Or, that pain really ever needed to exist