On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Deepak Shenoy <deepakshe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To balance the personal with the social and familial is a tough thing >> to do in the modern world where choices are increasingly personal >> because the personal has a short-termist appeal to the curious. > > I can't agree with this; personal choices make for brilliant long term > thinking. Which to me explains why, in those olden ages, people went > off to the mountains to meditate. If you wanted to think longer term, > you needed to get out of society which always bound you to the short > term.
The exception does not make the rule. Soceity has never been at risk of being over run by society shunning monks and thinkers. For most people personal choice is a way of acting out their desires away from the glare of social censure.
