Personalities, Nietzsche and more!

Hello,

I'm reading about personality theory after talking to a friend I just met at a dinner lecture series about Dorothy Day. He's from China and very into documenting stories of healing and so turned me on to Tibetan medicinal practices around the country as well as in Europe... I guess there's a documentary he wants me to watch, but the name has slipped him. Either way he brought up personality types, claiming he's a Type A. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory)

I'm a bit skeptical about personality theory, or psychological categories... I mean, why do we have to strive so hard to lump each other into definitive categories? Can't we just be content with the individual, or is there other reasons behind it? Advertising, power, etc?

In a slightly unrelated ramble:

I'm always surprised with how content some people are to just accept things without asking "Why?" every now and then. Why structure? Why religion? Why anything? Maybe this is all existentialist ranting, but the more I read Nietzsche, the more I start to see this dualism in society between complacency and change (good and evil to Nietzsche). He argues that we settle into society and anesthesia to avoid pain, but by doing so we allow evil or change to take rise almost instantly. 9-11, being one of the most recent. Before 9-11 most Americans weren't aware of terrorists in the Middle East, and now. . .? Change sparked so quickly: the Patriot Act, troop deployment, unified patriotism. Amazing. But now we've almost settled back down into an everyday passive peacefulness (completely, if not for the ongoing war and issues with Iran) that we should ask ourselves, "What's next?" What is the next step? The next Awakening?

Just some thoughts. If not for you, then for myself.

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