Thursday, 25 April 2013

Dependency relations & cultural history;






English Version:
(Spanish Version Below)

There are two phases in life:

@.1. That of an independent being. Let free to its own destiny and characterised by its biological desire and ambition. These are funded on an effort that relies on character as far as the artificial; the cultural and epigenetic side of life, is concerned.

@.2. That of a dependent being. Characterised by its destiny and let free to its biological desire and ambition. These, though, can only be funded on character, as it relies on an effort consequently invested in the natural, the physical and genetic side of life.

It is important to denote that personal and public narration, history, is marked by the aforementioned vital phases, which are at the same time entrenched and intercalated. Because of this difficulty in understanding a complex modular description of dependency instead of a linear dualist, black & white, fashioned definition (could include: who or what is dependent/independent), we are required to understand dependency as ubiquitous at the moment of applying it to make an assertion about an individual or a collective.

Dependency/Independency is therefore a human concept with the intrinsic property of being timeless as well as extrapolative, due to our capacity. It is based on our innate way of encompassing human life, together with our experience of it, as an ecological phenomenon beyond the biological material that shapes it.

Every historical human moment has been peculiar in its transcendence or potential range (scope) due to inducing natural evolution through the application of artificial selection pressures, of epigenetic content. It is within this disposition, that cultural history co-evolves throughout and by means of the physical, biological, even neurological piece of a human being and vice-versa.

Promptly, this simple intuition is captivating and suggesting, manifesting itself, reasonably, in an especially obvious structure when we are called to extrapolate the innately individual freedom towards an innately social freedom. It is precisely because of the interplay of this connexion when politics are formed and where it comes in hand solely in response to mere economics.

In fact, it has always been the case by observing the interplay between societal cultural organisations and economic resources to pinpoint the political incentives that drive it, if not trigger it. After all, it is politics that ultimately determine the cultural basis or reinterpret physical human circumstances that account for dependency relations; be it artificial limits or natural limits… a reciprocal process completed.

(//personal excerpt// a questionable linked-brainstorm that co-analyses dependency relationships and cultural history. This time in English! Feel free to comment ;-))















A conceptual model of independence and dependence for adults with chronic physical illness and disability. 

  • Monique A.M Gignac 
  • Cheryl Cott.










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