<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Above us only sky</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/</link>
	<description>Writer, game designer, filmmaker.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:43:19 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Give Peace A Chance &#171; Jonas Kyratzes</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-7790</link>
		<dc:creator>Give Peace A Chance &#171; Jonas Kyratzes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-7790</guid>
		<description>[...] (And from last year&#8217;s anniversary: Imagine.) [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] (And from last year&#8217;s anniversary: Imagine.) [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: PAK</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1498</link>
		<dc:creator>PAK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1498</guid>
		<description>I just listened to &quot;Imagine&quot; again. It really is amazing how the short snatches of it repeatedly played by the media have managed to practically re-write the song. Because it&#039;s so over-used, no-one ever actually listens to it in its own right (like how no-one reads Shakespeare or Dickens because they&#039;re rammed down our throats in school). And because it&#039;s never the most obviously socialist parts of the song that are used in public, you really have to wonder how many people have actually ever heard what the song is about. I know John Lennon&#039;s this massive cultural icon, but I&#039;ve only just realised how little I&#039;ve ever listened to him, and I practically live in the sixties.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just listened to &#8220;Imagine&#8221; again. It really is amazing how the short snatches of it repeatedly played by the media have managed to practically re-write the song. Because it&#8217;s so over-used, no-one ever actually listens to it in its own right (like how no-one reads Shakespeare or Dickens because they&#8217;re rammed down our throats in school). And because it&#8217;s never the most obviously socialist parts of the song that are used in public, you really have to wonder how many people have actually ever heard what the song is about. I know John Lennon&#8217;s this massive cultural icon, but I&#8217;ve only just realised how little I&#8217;ve ever listened to him, and I practically live in the sixties.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jonas</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1487</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1487</guid>
		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I know this guy. He lives as a courier in Hamburg.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
That he does, my friend. That he does.

(This is an in-joke. And a very funny one, too.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I know this guy. He lives as a courier in Hamburg.</p></blockquote>
<p>That he does, my friend. That he does.</p>
<p>(This is an in-joke. And a very funny one, too.)</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: JM</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1486</link>
		<dc:creator>JM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1486</guid>
		<description>I know this guy. He lives as a courier in Hamburg.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know this guy. He lives as a courier in Hamburg.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jonas</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1485</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1485</guid>
		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Why would you want to eliminate anger, or even jealousy and loneliness for that matter? No emotion is intrinsically good or bad, that comes from the meaning you make of it and the actions you choose to take because of it. Anger, when it is anger directed at something real, especially is a wonderful thing, without which humanity would cease to be a fraction of its former self. If you could see hypocrisy and sycophancy winning over integrity and real work and not get angry, then these things would fester and grow into the travesties that are modern political parties, churches and what-have-you. And as they did, your better world would only slide back into the poverty and misery of ages worse still than ours. And even regardless of the social consequences, what kind of life would it be for the individual if there was nothing to ever struggle against? I know anger isn’t a central emotion in a lot of people’s lives, but is for enough that a world without it would be a worse world.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I certainly wouldn&#039;t want to eliminate anger altogether. No, that&#039;s a part of what makes us human. But perhaps irrational anger - this is something that it would be nice to get rid of. But even in a perfect society, it&#039;s likely to stay - even if in diminished form.

As for jealousy - well, I think jealousy is a bad thing, but it often proceeds from much better feelings. Would a world without jealousy be better? Quite probably. Is it likely to happen? No, because we&#039;re human. But perhaps we can build a world where we&#039;re not driven by jealousy on so many levels.

Finally, loneliness - yes, I would prefer a world in which no-one was lonely for long periods of time. But it&#039;s part of who we are, part of being intelligent, and it will stay that way. But we can build a world in which there is support for the lonely, and in which loneliness doesn&#039;t occur for absurd reasons.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Why would you want to eliminate anger, or even jealousy and loneliness for that matter? No emotion is intrinsically good or bad, that comes from the meaning you make of it and the actions you choose to take because of it. Anger, when it is anger directed at something real, especially is a wonderful thing, without which humanity would cease to be a fraction of its former self. If you could see hypocrisy and sycophancy winning over integrity and real work and not get angry, then these things would fester and grow into the travesties that are modern political parties, churches and what-have-you. And as they did, your better world would only slide back into the poverty and misery of ages worse still than ours. And even regardless of the social consequences, what kind of life would it be for the individual if there was nothing to ever struggle against? I know anger isn’t a central emotion in a lot of people’s lives, but is for enough that a world without it would be a worse world.</p></blockquote>
<p>I certainly wouldn&#8217;t want to eliminate anger altogether. No, that&#8217;s a part of what makes us human. But perhaps irrational anger &#8211; this is something that it would be nice to get rid of. But even in a perfect society, it&#8217;s likely to stay &#8211; even if in diminished form.</p>
<p>As for jealousy &#8211; well, I think jealousy is a bad thing, but it often proceeds from much better feelings. Would a world without jealousy be better? Quite probably. Is it likely to happen? No, because we&#8217;re human. But perhaps we can build a world where we&#8217;re not driven by jealousy on so many levels.</p>
<p>Finally, loneliness &#8211; yes, I would prefer a world in which no-one was lonely for long periods of time. But it&#8217;s part of who we are, part of being intelligent, and it will stay that way. But we can build a world in which there is support for the lonely, and in which loneliness doesn&#8217;t occur for absurd reasons.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1483</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1483</guid>
		<description>People don&#039;t seem to understand you CAN be both an idealist and a realist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People don&#8217;t seem to understand you CAN be both an idealist and a realist.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: PAK</title>
		<link>http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/2009/12/08/above-us-only-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-1482</link>
		<dc:creator>PAK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/?p=1022#comment-1482</guid>
		<description>Why would you want to eliminate anger, or even jealousy and loneliness for that matter? No emotion is intrinsically good or bad, that comes from the meaning you make of it and the actions you choose to take because of it. Anger, when it is anger directed at something real, especially is a wonderful thing, without which humanity would cease to be a fraction of its former self. If you could see hypocrisy and sycophancy winning over integrity and real work and not get angry, then these things would fester and grow into the travesties that are modern political parties, churches and what-have-you. And as they did, your better world would only slide back into the poverty and misery of ages worse still than ours. And even regardless of the social consequences, what kind of life would it be for the individual if there was nothing to ever struggle against? I know anger isn&#039;t a central emotion in a lot of people&#039;s lives, but is for enough that a world without it would be a worse world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would you want to eliminate anger, or even jealousy and loneliness for that matter? No emotion is intrinsically good or bad, that comes from the meaning you make of it and the actions you choose to take because of it. Anger, when it is anger directed at something real, especially is a wonderful thing, without which humanity would cease to be a fraction of its former self. If you could see hypocrisy and sycophancy winning over integrity and real work and not get angry, then these things would fester and grow into the travesties that are modern political parties, churches and what-have-you. And as they did, your better world would only slide back into the poverty and misery of ages worse still than ours. And even regardless of the social consequences, what kind of life would it be for the individual if there was nothing to ever struggle against? I know anger isn&#8217;t a central emotion in a lot of people&#8217;s lives, but is for enough that a world without it would be a worse world.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

