Systems

We humans love order. Let’s face it, compared to the other animals in this world, we embrace it so fully. We hope for order in our schools, our churches, and our homes. Sure, some of us might be slobs in our rooms, but there is this human part of us that adores a clean room. 

It’s in our nature. It’s also in our nature to search for order in seemingly chaotic ideas and things.

I bring up this theme, because it's something that occurs to me as I read about this Sigmund Freud guy. I know a lot of his work was innovative and different. I know he probably had some truthful ideas, but I can’t help but think, so what? He divided human’s actions into life-centered or death-centered. Great. Now, what would a hypothetical patient seeking help with an addiction do with this information?

When I hear about people who study subjects like psychology, I feel like these areas are so vague and so misunderstood. Professionals come in to the scene and try to give all of our complex and naturally widespread emotions their own “labels” for fame and logic’s sake. But it doesn’t necessarily help the situation. It’s the same feeling I get when I pass the self-help book aisle at Borders. It’s the same for weight loss. Sure it’d be great if we knew low-carb or low-calorie or low-fat was the way to go, but turns out if you just stick with some sort of program, you’re bound to do better. I really believe these orders of systems, are often marketed as a ploy to make us humans feel like we’re attacking a problem in a new, manageable way, when most of the time, we just need to be persistent.

I believe that systems that have found true innovation are so necessary and vital. The chain of events and discovery that leads us to drugs like antibiotics and vaccines are extremely beneficial. But I do believe that people who study the abstract areas of life are often too egotistical in their harnessing of these things. The fields of life that deal with psychology and our mind and those things of the body that we don’t medically understand are often abused by people being too overeager to come up with a new label or order that isn’t necessarily for the greater good. Does that make sense?