We do not need to destroy, cancel anything, we need to learn how to use what we have

Question from the Internet:

“Can depriving oneself of certain stimuli be a way of creating change?”

Depriving ourselves of stimuli literally kills us. We are emotional beings, we exist through emotional input. If we deprive ourselves of any kind of stimuli, we lose our connection to reality.

We can see how nature responds to that, when one loses any sensory organ nature augments the rest so they can somehow make up for the lost input.

And we also know that the cruelest form of torture is putting people into an environment where they lose stimuli, they are deprived of the emotional, sensory connection to reality.

We can’t change ourselves by torture, if we want any change that has to be conducted through positive motivation, creating, establishing something, a goal, and an expected reward that is greater than what we have now.

It is true that our inherently egocentric, self-serving, and mostly exploitative intentions, actions, desires make us harmful to others and to ourselves. But the answer is not the suppression, erasure of the ego, or our desires.

The answer is learning how to build unique, mutually supportive, and mutually complementing interconnections with others and through those connections learning how to harness, channel all our desires, actions, intentions for positive, mutually beneficial, collective goals and purpose.

We need to use everything we were given, there is nothing obsolete, accidental in Nature’s system. We just need to know how to use whatever we have according to Nature’s finely balanced integral template.