| M.Heidegger vs M.Csikszentmihalyi |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|02:37 pm] |
M.Csikszentmihalyi says that we are the happiest when we experience Flow, i.e. a state of full immersive success in the process of the activity.
Heidegger agrees with him, but also says that we experience things as they are, i.e. as independent from our own instrumental world, only in situations of extreme instrumental breakdown (H.L.Dreyfus). But such situations give us the feeling of existential anxiety.
Therefore, when we are experiencing Flow we are probably the furthest from making a true discovery because we are being completely locked in our instrumental world. Furthermore, when the vast majority of people in a society are in the state of Flow, i.e. they are very successful in coping with the world, the society is in a state of maximum delusion.
cf with the stock market before a crash, tiger woods, etc.
Also to consider, ways of dealing with a total breakdown as they relate to niche construction. |
|
|
