Rekindling Our Survival Instincts
A questioning attitude towards oneself can be good practice, but... not so much when it comes at the expense of attending to external threats. ;) I tend to think that the latter should be the main impetus for the former, rather than a kind of navel-gazing which is not only usually rather unproductive and unfulfilling, but can also be extremely dangerous. Ironically, (or perhaps not so ironically) when we think of our environment as a safe haven, is a time when we can fall in to nihilistic despair and become a danger to ourselves. If there is no havoc in the environment, we have a natural tendency to create havoc for ourselves! Human beings thrive on and often require adversity in order to motivate ourselves, as animals we are programmed primarily to seek survival, and when that survival comes to too easily, we feel like life is meaningless. Our own sense of self-value tends to come from being in touch with our own mortality. Therefore, in my opinion, even the urge to reprodu...