Everybody has theories about what’s causing our current economic breakdown. Those raised on the French philosophy of Sartre and Voltaire might lay the blame at the feet of society. More existential thinking would point the finger at individual responsibility. But only Norberto Keppe‘s new science gives us the tools to do a more complete analysis.
Today on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head, we’ll look at the roots of our destruction, and what we have to know about ourselves in order to stop, which is the crux of the thing, isn’t it? I’m Richard Lloyd Jones.
Well, one of the very clear problems we run into when tackling the issue of what’s going on these days is that we always wind up in the same place. There’s this theory over here, that one over there, 3 more somewhere in the middle. How in the world does the ordinary citizen make sense of it all? There are so many problems in so many areas.
The Comptroller General of the U.S. shocks us on 60 Minutes by talking about fiscal cancer and all that entails.
Al Gore’s excellent documentray warns us that the catastrophic deep freeze produced by special effects wizards in The Day After Tomorrow movie could actually happen.
Fanatics talk about Divine retribution.
You can get an earful in whichever direction you turn. But is there any way to boil all this chaos and crisis down to something chewable? Is there any way to point to an overarching and principal problem? And perhaps more importantly, if there is a defining explanation, can it also offer us a solution or two?
I think “yes” on all those counts. You see, our difficulties begin in our way of seeing and relating to the world. We and the society we live in are products of what’s going on in our philosophies of life, in our psyches.
And there’s one point from which we must start in considering this: we are not the latest editions of the human species standing on the most recent rung of the evolutionary ladder. We’re not like software upgrades – the latest version with considerable improvements over Zinzanthropus Man from several million years ago.
This is a key aspect of Brazilian psychoanalyst, Norberto Keppe‘s work: that we have all perfection inside us. As nature is complets, so are we. Our problem is that we deny and even destroy what we are. This makes our problem not one of not having arrived, of not knowing any better. No. It’s more serious. We know what is right, what we should do individually and collectively to have a better world, to have the paradise we should live in. We know … but we don’t do it. This is something deep inside the human psyche, which is why it took a psychoanalyst to discover it. Dr. Norberto Keppe‘s work is totally about helping us understand this dynamic.
And it’s what we explore all the time in this Podcast. And what we’ll be expanding into an Internet radio show coming in January. Make sure you get on the mailing list to be informed about that: rich@richjonesvoice.com
That show will be conducted with psychoanalyst, Dr. Claudia Pacheco, who joins me on today’s podcast as well.