a new understanding of today, time and space.

as I continue my study of philosophy,
I am also studying the society at large
and I am studying history…….

as I have read various philosophers, I am now on Kant…
thing I have notice is that they, the philosophers don’t
have any type of historical study in their works…
in other words, when say, Hume works out an idea,
that idea doesn’t exists in history, it is an isolated idea
that exists outside of history…ideas are treated as
separate from or isolated from history…
even Kant doesn’t work out his idea’s historically,
they exist outside of and independent of history…
philosophers before Kant would bring up prior philosophical
idea’s only to refute them, not as historical idea’s in themselves
but as ideas to argue against…………

we modern man has in fact done is take an idea and place
it within history… a writer who doesn’t look at the historical
aspect of an idea is a pretty piss poor writer, in our eyes anyway,
beginning with writers like Goethe and Vico, we begin to understand
ideas in a historical context… we no longer look at ideas as independent
and separate from history… idea’s have an historical context
and that is an modern viewpoint… that is an modern invention…

we begin the modern idea of the creation of context of history within
philosophy with Hegel… and every philosopher thereafter must
put philosophy into historical context………. idea’s do have history
and we must account for idea’s in a historical context……
the birth of this idea of philosophical ideas having a historical context
is a good thing and a modern invention worth celebrating…

I guess I must credit the enlightenment writers also, as they focus a great deal
on history… Voltaire and Hume wrote well respected histories……

context which means experience is everything……
history creates context…

Kropotkin

we have two separate and distinct societies today,
those who believe and those who don’t……
I don’t believe and I have never tried to hide that……

but it has occurred to me that belief in god is a different thing
then non-belief…… and the difference, one of them anyway,
is belief in god negates history… belief in god is belief in
one world, created by god and populated by god with no reference
to any historical context of the world, people or animals…….
and then exists end times, where we exists outside of time forever…
on the right hand of god as it were………

believe is ahistorical, it doesn’t need history to exist…….

whereas non-belief is about historical context…
if you believe in Darwin and I do, then you believe in
the historical context that Darwin places on the world,
man, animals… life……

the history of life is historical… whereas belief is not…

everything is historical when you are a non-believer…
and everything is not historical when you are a believer…

I am born, I live and I die… everything about me exists in history and
must be seen in a historical context… whereas if I am a believer,
I don’t need or want history because god is not about historical context…
that is why it is easy to dismiss global warming or over pollution or overpopulation
warnings because it doesn’t matter in the universe of god… because
all that matters is heaven and getting to heaven and heaven is not
about historical context because you are there forever… and who cares
about earthly concerns when it is about spending time on heaven…
or so says the believer……
and so we have one root cause for the indifference to the major
problems of humanity and existence…….believers don’t care because
they are ahistorical and non-believers are historical and they must
care because they exist within history and is part of history and
a legacy of history and a creator of history……

history is before us and history is during us and history is after us…
we exists in historical context… while history before us could
be considered like the Zen problem… where before Zen, the mountains
are stable and the sea calm and the river stays in its bank…
while during Zen, the mountains dance and the sea rages
and the river overflows it’s banks and after Zen,
the mountain are stable and the sea becomes calm and
the river stays in its banks…

that is us… in the middle of history and in the middle of Zen……
the mountains are dancing and the sea is wild and turbulent
and the river has overflowed it bank’s…

and how do we return to the after Zen and after history…
we don’t… but we don’t allow the during Zen to claim our
understanding of what it means to be human and how to become
more human……. what are our possibilities? to have trust in
history is the only trust we need to have…………
if we trust Darwin to be right, and he is, then we must have some
faith in history……… and simply work out our issues, both individually
and collectively…….

to state you believe in god is to say, you don’t believe in history
and to say you don’t believe says, you do believe in history……

Kropotkin

poetry and truth… that was the name of Goethe’s autobiography…

since the days of the Greeks, Poets were thought to have
a direct connection to the gods…… they were honored and
vilified and given the highest seat and thrown into jail……

Plato wanted to ban the poet because his verse too incendiary for
the common man……….

and this was true until, until the “modern” age…
few poets of the 20 century were even noticed
and those who were noticed are the honored “unread”…great poets
who no one actually reads… but their name gets a place in
in the textbooks as “great” poets of the 20th century…

Rilke is one such name…

but the real question becomes, why have we killed the poets?

who writes poetry and who reads it? you might as well be
making prayers to Ra as so far as writing poetry… for all the good it will do you…

why have we lost the feel, the touch for poems?

what has happened to poetry?

we have our truths, oh, we have so many truths, we need
years, decades to understand and remember them…

the earth is 93 million miles from earth
and New York has 8 million people…
and the dinosaurs died 65 million years ago…

do those truths equal this truth…

Nur im Raum der ruhmung darf die Klage
gehn, die Nymphe des geweinten Quells……

I leave it untranslated on purpose…….

we have cast out poetry because we have cast
out of paradise… emotions, feelings, sentiments……

in our name, IQ45 has separated children including infants from their parents
and most of the country has a collective yawn…

if a Kardashian has a hangnail, the country will hold a telethon to raise money
for such a crisis for humanity……………

in losing the example of poetry, we have lost our understanding of
what is really important…………… we have lost our ability of
discovering what is really important, emotionally, in feelings,
in sentiments……………….

we have clowns like IQ45 who “feel” that important matters are
emotional… they have opinions that they disguise as facts……
and they think that their feelings are a substitute for logic
and facts and “truth” but that is different from what I am talking about…

we cannot overcome our emotions until we understand that they
are a part of us, they are an essential part of us… when
we think we our reasoning, we are really emotionally weighing
out our options, not with logic or rational thought, but with
feeling, with us being emotional……….

we cannot tell the difference between our emotions
and our rational thought……. we think they are the same thing…
they are not…………

and this failure has cost us our poets, our poetry…

why have poets, when we can’t even tell the difference
between emotions and rational thought…………

Kropotkin

why waste the time on poetry one might ask?

Because as everyone knows, poetry is dead…
and has been dead for quite a while…

Killed by its own boring nature…

once upon a time, while poetry was still fashionable,
people thought the search for the truth was really a search
for an Aesthetic theory…

Aesthetic:

1: concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty…
2: set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a
particular artist or movement…

the search for the truth was a search for beauty…
and if we found beauty, we found the truth…

and this was how the truth was perceived for generations…

we moderns, no longer know what is beautiful and so we
no longer know what the truth is… or so goes one such theory…

Poetry is dead…

or said another way, we have lost the Aesthetic……

in my wasted youth, I wrote poetry… laid waste to
many tree’s in search of poetic truth…………

now those poems sit in some box wasting away…
most likely being eaten by rats…
I couldn’t think of a better fate for those poems……………

poetry is dead…

and with it, the ability to wonder and feel ashamed and fall in love…….

in my youth, I read almost all of Blake and Tennison… in fact, all
of the English Romantic poets I read…………

and I was moved… to tears…….

I read them today and they are just words on a page, meaning nothing…

just well written words that no longer move me to tears…………

have the words changed? no, I have changed and in my old age,
I am no longer moved by words bathed in Aesthetics…….

the dance between words and the human soul no longer move me…

I have lost something very important… but I can’t remember what…

does the dance between the words of poetry and the soul, still move you?

I hope so…… it means there is still hope for you…….

I am waiting for the Autopsy on poetry…

was it suicide… was it death by murder… or was it death by indifference…

Aesthetic: the theory that the search for beauty actually matters…….

do we understand that today?

Kropotkin

I went online looking for poems to post here…

to understand why poetry has died

and I found this……

come
home.

that is the entire poem……

let us start small and work our way up…

is this a poem?

and if not, why not?

Kropotkin

recall that poetry is a search for truth or truths not found
any other way… what truth does our little poem convey?

come
home.

Kropotkin

we try to understand our little poem…

what is “home”?

it is a place… I am a home body now… but it didn’t use to be that
way… I would work my shifts then go out to the bar……….
I rarely spent any time at home… then as I got older,
home became more and more important……

Now, I rarely ever leave home unless I have to…
to work and that is about it……………

Home is a value………

and we come to an understanding of poetry…

it is about values…

and what have I said about philosophy?

science is about facts and philosophy is about values………

so poetry is just the other side of philosophy in its
quest for the “truth” about values………

what values are really important?

both philosophy and poetry try to seek out the truth of which
value are really worth living………

and we see the connection between philosophy and poetry…

it becomes a question of values……….

which values are really the values should be seeking?

Kropotkin

poetry is about values and which values should
we obey……

read the “second coming” by Yeats….

or read the “the wasteland” by TS Elliot…

what values are they talking about?

and how is that any different then anything by Nietzsche or
Kierkegaard?

find the values… for within values do we humans find our
reason for existence, find the values and we find out what
we live for and what we die for and what gives life meaning……

and finding the values within poetry is just as valid as finding the
values within philosophy………

Kropotkinkin

Goethe often said that Werther must die so that Goethe can live…

and this is the value of the act of creation…

we vent, so that we may keep on creating…

so that we don’t get stuck in some loop that
ties us into that loop forever…

Kropotkin

[quote=“Peter Kropotkin”]
Goethe often said that Werther must die so that Goethe can live…

and this is the value of the act of creation…

we vent, so that we may keep on creating…

so that we don’t get stuck in some loop that
ties us into that loop forever…

K: and what must you kill that allow you to live?

where do you expend that inner energy that must be used
up or it threaten to destroy us…

remember life is an equation…
and every equation has an equal sign to it…
you must equal out every part or the equation
is unbalanced, it threatens “to fall apart”…
every single system must balanced out or it
eventually fails…

our inner lives is unbalanced… and threatens to
derail our entire society… so how do we regain balance
within ouro current society?

we begin by finding balance within us… we find that equation
that needs to be balanced… we find the truth…
be it philosophy or be it poetry or be it science or be
it religion…

we find values that allow us to recover our balance,
equal our equation…

so, what values or equation is needed to find society’s balance,
to find society’s equation?

we are living the wrong values and it shows in how unbalance
society is right now…….and like any equation, if it is unbalanced,
it threatens to fail, to collapse… and we are at that point right now…

so, how do we find the values that allow society to recover its
balance?

Kropotkin

human knowledge, its scope and limits…
not necessarily the book by Russell, but the actual idea
behind the scope and limit of human knowledge……

our limit of knowledge is really that of the senses…
but we can extend our sense via technological means
by telescope and microscope and radio waves and other such
devices that allow us to “see” or “hear” at great distances…

we can then by use of prior experience, by comparing and contrasting
things, by analysis (which is simple comparing and contrasting)
we can make sense of our new “experiences”…………

but my question is not about the scope and limits of knowledge,
but what the knowledge is and what do we do with that knowledge…
how we got that knowledge is of less importance to me then
what the knowledge is……………science if very good at gaining
knowledge, but not very good at making sense of that knowledge…
science understands the how, but not the why of knowledge…….

for to understand that knowledge requires values……
the why of knowledge is a question of values…

the earth is 93 million miles from the sun…
this is a how…but it doesn’t answer the why of the earth
being 93 million miles from sun………

the solar system is a system and for a system to succeed it must
be balanced and stable……. the planets are in a stable orbit
and thus the system is stable… if one of the planets went rogue,
left its orbit, then the entire system would be in danger because
our solar system is a delicate system of checks and balances
between the various masses, which we call the planets with the sun…

by understand the solar system we can see how a system remains
a viable and active system………. it must remain in balance
and in its equation…………………add one number to either side of an
equation and the equation no longer works and that threatens the
stability of the equation……………….the solar system is no different…….
add an aspect to either side of the equation and the system is no longer in balance

but that is part of the scope and limits of human knowledge…

this look at human knowledge and its scope and limits has been a long
standing aspect of philosophy……………… entire forest have
been ripped up and turned into tree’s so that people can
explain in great detail their understanding of the scope and limits
of knowledge…

I am just not sure it belongs in the front lines of philosophy anymore…….

but what should be in the front lines of philosophy?

what should we give emphasis to?

Kropotkin

I have been working on my study of Kant…
Kant seems to have made his base, his starting
point, space and time……
the question of space and time has confused a whole lot of people
since the beginning of time…….

one question that has been asked and is key to Kant is,
is space real? does space have a physical reality to it?
and I believe the answer is yes…….

space is a physical object like my table or myself……

think about a black hole… where gravity is so strong that
nothing can escape it, not even light…… but can space escape it?
I would say no… if I was able to exist right at the opening
of a black hole and there was no other matter coming at me,
would I feel the, for lack of a better word here, the pressure coming
from space itself? now think of an concept like pressure…
we cannot see pressure but if we were to go on another planet
like Jupiter and be able to set foot on the “ground” (yes, knowing it
is most likely that Jupiter doesn’t have a ground as we know it)
but anyway, if I step out, the pressure would crush me…
and yet, I cannot with my senses detect the presence
of pressure outside of that stuff up feeling we get during
weather changes……… we can’t see it or hear it or smell it or taste
or touch it, but it is there……. we cannot reach out our hand and
touch pressure ……… but during an Hurricane, we can feel with our bodies
the changing pressure… but you can’t reach out and touch it…
it presses down upon you and you feel that pressure, but you cannot
move that pressure away from you……… space is like pressure……
it can press down upon you but you cannot reach out and touch it……
space can be move like in a black hole or with the mass of a large star……

it exists……. we just don’t have the tools right now to measure it or
to touch it…… but we touch it every single day… space can bend
and that bending shows us that space does exist in physical form…….
so what is space made up off? it is a special rule object in the
physical universe? if we have multiverses, then do we have
more then one type of space? I would say yes………

just as we have multi dimensions, we can have multi space……
each dimension can be another type of space…………
we can think of dimensions as another form of space……

do I know this by “intuition”? I can know this by simply understanding
that I exist in one type of space and there is the possibility of another
type of space that can exist…take information we gained via
experience and then extrapolate it to the possibility of
other experiences……………….

now some philosophers would suggest that I arrived at the possibility
of different spaces via “intuition” or a priori……….but I simply
used the space I already know by experiences, and asked,
what if there is another space? That I cannot know by experience,
as of now, but within the realm of possibility I can know by experience at
some later date……………….

let us look at something basic… a triangle…
did we begin to discover the triangle by first knowing
that the sum of the measure of the interior angles of a triangle
in Euclidian space is always 180 degree’s
or did we create or find a triangle and then we figured out that
the sum of the triangle was the sum of the measure of the interior
angles in Euclidian space is always 180 degree’s?

I contend that we had the triangle first and then from there
found out the measurements and not the other way around where
we had the measurements and then found out the shape of the
triangle……… we “discovered” what we know about the triangle from
the triangle itself, we had the experience and then, and then discovered
the information about the triangle…

we experienced the triangle and then found out the information we
needed and the same goes for space…… we experienced space and
then we are finding out the information we need as we go along…

Kropotkin

if I could round up the so called leaders of America into one
room… people like Bill Gates, Warren buffet, Cuban, political
leaders like Obama and Schumer and Pelosi and sport like
Lebron James and Tom Brady, all of them into one room…
Here is what I would say to them…

"here we have in one room, the leadership of America…
and I say unto you… You have failed in exercising leadership in this
dark hour in American history. You have stayed silent while the forces
of darkness have systematically destroyed America in ways that can’t even
be understood. You have stayed silent while the forces of darkness has
promoted bigotry and ignorance and intolerence and hatred. You have stayed
silent because of fear or you share this unAmerican views or you simply
don’t care and in any case that disqualifies you from being a leader.
For having the responsibility of leadership comes the responsibility
of doing the right thing, even if it is unpopular and even if it cost
you money, time, efforts, friends and if need be, your life.

For doing the right thing is what leadership is all about.
You may say, well, these forces haven’t done any real damage.
Then travel down Texas or Florida and see the eyes of children
who have been forcible taken from their mothers and fathers.
Tell me no real damage has been done. But Kropotkin,
they aren’t even American’s. Why should we care what
happens to people who aren’t even American’s?

Leadership is about caring to what happens to all people,
not just people who are white or with money or a specific
color, creed, race or nationality. Leadership is about promoting
the best interest of all the people, not just certain people.
And you people in this room have failed in that.

If you claim to be religious or pro-life, you have failed in that.
For the forces of darkness have promoted not only ignorance
and bigotry, but they have promoted Nihilism. They have
put monetary concerns over human lives. They have put profit
and money over human lives and that is nihilism…
and have any of you spoken out about this?

No, you haven’t done so. You have stayed silent.
And that silence has convicted you of a failure of leadership.
You want the perks of leadership. The money, the fame, the glory,
but you don’t want the responsibility of leadership.
Where hard choices exists and you must decide to fight
for human beings.

The principle of equality requires that people have equal rights
and among those rights exists not only the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, but the right to food and water but also housing
and education and medical care and retirement.

If we prevent people from having any of these rights, then we
are guilty of inequality and injustice. For justice requires, no justice
demands equality. If we fail to treat people equally, regardless of
race, creed, color, nationality, then we are guilty of committing
acts of injustice. How can we call ourselves leaders if we
are guilty of the worst crime of all, that of perpetuating
injustice.

Leadership, real leadership means we aren’t just about
creating profit and loss and who gets promoted and who doesn’t,
but leadership is about applying the values are values
that lead to the betterment of people.

Leadership is about those values of justice and equality
and freedom and tolerance. And we must promote those
values even at the cost of making a profit, even at the
cost of losing our job, and why?

Why? Because those values we live by is what makes life
worth living and worth dying for. Those values are what makes
human beings special. Not accidental traits like being born
white or being born American or male.

No, the values worth living are the value of justice and the value
of equality and the value of love and the value of charity and the hope
those values give people. It is not about the GDP, the gross domestic
product of the products we produce that give us our reason for life,
but the values that we have like love and hope and justice.

And the forces of darkness are opposed to such values like love
and justice and equality. The are not only anti-American but they
are anti-life.

You, the so called leaders have failed in your duties and responsibilities
to stand against policies that are unjust and promoted inequality
and believe in such values as hate and anger and greed.

You have failed and your legacy will be tarnished. For leaders
don’t just wait until the fight reaches them, they act before
the events get out of hand and you, you have not acted or even
said anything and the forces of darkness have been destroying
hope and freedom and charity and justice and tolerance and you have said
nothing, you have done nothing.

Don’t let fear stop you from doing the right thing.

You must act and you must speak out against the darkness that covers
our land with shame and violence and legal inequality.

You have failed. Tell us, what excuses do you offer us for your failure to speak,
for your failure to act.

Kropotkin

Because of the rules, forces at play, there seems to be
a uniformity to human lives, to nature, to reality.

Think of the game of chess. Because of the rules of chess,
there is a basic structure to the game. All games of chess
are similar in structure. The very rules of chess force all the games
to resemble each other. The rules/ structure of chess prevent
any moves that destabilizes the game. You can’t have Kings moving
more then one square at a time or knights moving like bishops.
That would destroy chess as we know it. It becomes unrecognizable,
no longer a game, but a free for all and then chess is done as a game,
no longer played because it has no structure, no rules.

Life has its rules/structure and that keeps life playing by the
same rules and that means life is very similar…

Biologists say life must have certain rules to be considered life.
That structure allows life to succeed because the rules in place
allow life to survive its environment. And that is the point of life,
to propagate and continue, according to the rules, the structure
of life.

these rules prevent, for example, pigs from growing wings.
These rules, allow life to have structure. The pigs must exist in
a certain way because of the rules, they cannot do anything else.
They cannot fly because of the biological rules. The biological forces,
the rules means we humans can only exists in a certain way. We cannot do
anything else. Our lives are structure in a certain way. We are born
and we must have certain length of time to learn the things we need to
learn to survive. Most animals only need a short length of time to learn
the rules they need to know to survive. A lion for example, only requires
a short time to learn everything it needs to know to survive, whereas
human beings need, require, a much longer time to learn the requirement
of survival. This extended learning period is one of the major differences
between human beings and animals. The rules, the structure of being human
is what creates this length of time that human beings need to learn the
understanding to survival.

The rules, the structure of human existence is what makes
human existence so similar to each other. The rules/structure
of human existence has been the same since the beginning of human
existence. Thus we human beings act and think and feel in remarkable
similar ways because the rules are the same for all of us. Just the subject
matter, the ism’s and the myths and biases and prejudices and superstitions
change from society to society. What the stone age child learns and the
Roman child learns and what the modern child learns is different because
the enviroment is different in each society. The same society requires similar
teaching of values and things needed to know to survive that society.
The rules/structure of human existence means human beings has
the same type of existence. We might learn different things, but
our existence is similar. We cannot escape the contraints of of the rules,
the structure of our lives. This is the basis of the idea of innate idea’s.
Because the structure, the rules are the same for all of us,
we have to exist in a similar manner. This makes it looks like
we have innate idea’s but it is the identical rules and structure
of our lives that mean we must have similar idea’s. Not because they
are innate, but because they are the rules. Once again take chess.

You might argue that because the rules in chess are the same,
that the rules are innate in everyone. No, it just means we must
play chess within the bounds of certain rules and if we go out of bounds
of those rules, we are no longer playing chess. It is the rules/ the stucture
of human existence that we cannot change that makes it look like we
have innate idea’s.

Now are idea’s like god, freedom or immortality innate?
No, those are part of the myths, habits, prejudices
and biases and superstitions that we are taught to survive.
The idea of god is not part of the structure needed to survive
biological. it is a social rule, not a biological rule.
thus it is not innate. So how do we begin to respond to
the nature of human beings?

We must follow certain rules/ structures to exists as human beings,
the biological rules, not the social rules and we must keep the two,
distinct and separate. the social rules and the biological rules.
We cannot change the biological rules, but we can change,
adapt, drop or add social rules/ social structure.

Because the environment changes for every person,
the social rules changes. What I do to survive is different
then what you do for survival because our situation, our
environment is different. The myths, habits, biases, prejudices
and superstitions we are taught as children is meant as a guideline
to survival. But people mistake those guidelines as written in
stone and they are not. society teaches certain rules, creates
certain structure because of society need to survive
survive and the rules/structure of society is meant to
allow society to survive. The rules of personal survival is
the same for a society as it is for a personal individual.

so what is next?

Kropotkin

So what is next?

As shown by my thread of the “Suicide of Anthony Bourdain”,
that the reaction to my thread was not about an honest reaction to
his death but an reaction based on the myths, biases, habits,
prejudices and superstitions that people were indoctrinated with
as children. The people reacted in the way they reacted because
they is how they were indoctrinated in childhood…

I was portrayed as being “lacking in humanity” and “patronising”,
but it is not my statement that people were reacting to, but
their childhood indoctrinations…

Their prejudice is that we don’t speak ill of the dead, and we
don’t attack those who have killed themselves…
and we accuse those who do so as “lacking in humanity”.

Now Bourdain is a coward for his suicide but what matters is not
his death but your response to that statement. Am I right?
It doesn’t matter because of the childhood indoctrinations
that one has received…….

One reads of Romans who killed themselves when ordered
by the emperor or killed themselves to escape punishment
or being captured……

It is the same act, but because of the myths, biases, habits,
prejudices and superstitions of the two cultures,
the act, the exact same act is looked upon differently…
is treated differently, is responded to differently……
even the method is different and which method is used
is understood differently…….

so we, because of biological rules, must act similarly.
We cannot act any different biological then we can act.
The biological rules prevent us from doing so.
But the social rules are different and allow us to act differently.

But because of society rules/ need for structure, the society
has rules/structure that society puts into place for its own
survival. We are limited in several different ways…
we have biological rules/structure that we cannot disobey
because to survive we must follow them.
But the social rules/ structure in place for us, can be and must be
examined………

So how do we become more human despite the social structure/rules
that want to limit us to certain roles and actions?

Being limited in such social rules/structure is a constraint against
us becoming more human… why is this important?

Because society must have citizens playing certain rules for society
to survive… if enough citizens fail to play their roles, just like chess
a game, society descends into chaos and no longer functions…….

But those roles, the structure is forced upon us by societies
need for survival, not what is actually best for society or what
is best for the individual, but what is best for society…
and which aspect of society decides? why that is the ones
who own the means of production, the ones who
own…….so it is in their best interest to keep society
and individuals to keep their place, their role within society…….
the ones with the most to lose, are the ones who make the rules
because they are the ones who have decided what has value, something
they have a lot of, which is money. The value of society which is money
is determined by those who actually have money…… not the poor or
the ones who have decided that money is not that important……
This is a cultural decision, not a biological one…
and this is why we must have a reevaluation of values…
our current society, our current culture is based on money
because those who have money have made it so…….

we can change that to where the myth, bias, prejudice
and superstition of society need not be about money,
but about personal growth or about learning who we are
and what are our possibilities………

We are bound to biological rules but not bound to
social rules………and what is best for us socially is not
necessarily best for society………… and we are punished
for not obeying society………. recall, the single worst
crime in western society is disobedience… recall Adam and Eve.

And the pressure society puts on those who disobey…
in my job, I can only be fired for two things, one is stealing
and the other, surprise, disobedience…………

and obedience is taught throughout our society…
think back to your schooling, where disobeying your
parents, teachers, authority figures, the law, means punishment……

in society’s eyes, the greatest crime against society is
disobedience……

but that is a negative… what is a positive that society can teach us?

only by a reevaluation of values can we understand this………

only by a reevaluation of values can we operate society
from an positive values from the current negative values of society…….

only by a reevaluation can we begin to discover who we really are,
not just by the biases and myths and prejudices of a society that
that has only its interest in mind and not your interest in mind…

we must begin to reevaluate to escape the confines of societies needs
and begin to discover our needs, our best interests, our real values, and not
just the values we have inherited from society via their indoctrination from
childhood……….

we cannot become more human biological but we can become more
human based upon a reevaluation of who we are and what are our
possibilities… and we can create new rules, new myths, new biases,
no prejudices and new superstitions that match our current reality,
not just the need of society……….

Kropotkin

human beings are a work in progress which means we
must continuously evaluate where we were, where we are
and where we need to be………

this is called a “reevaluation of values” to understand
this work in progress both, individually and collectively……

Kropotkin

Anthropomorphism: the attribution of human characteristics or
behavior to a god, animal, object. It is considered to be an
innate tendency of human psychology.

Xenophanes said "but if cattle and horse and lions had hands or could
paint with their hands and create work such as men do, horses like horses
and cattle like cattle also would depict the gods shapes and make their
bodies of such a sort the form they themselves have…….

Ethiopians say that their gods are sub-nose and black and Thracians that
they are pale and red-haired"

Even the Jewish god has human traits, god gets jealous demands
that man only worships him. Think of the human traits that the Jewish god
has……… Jealous, anger, love, despair………. we endow not only the gods
with humanness but we endow nature itself with humanness……

we say how nature has been created to serve man… part of the historical
argument for the creation of god has been how nature is so ideal for
man and all the animals………we read into nature, human needs…

reality itself has a human component… Descartes began with his
assertion that all we can know is the “I”… this is a statement
that we can only know ourselves………… not as matter but as brain.

and German idealism beginning with Kant begins with the notion that
metaphysical matters can only be known through human reason…….

space and time is known through human intuition…and the theory that
physical objects can have no existence apart from mind which is conscious
of them……. Kant based on his theory of knowledge, that everything
spatial (space) or temporal (time) is only appearance…this is still
just anthropormorphism even if it is rather complicated…… reality
and nature still just exists from and only from our understanding of it…
thus the famous categories of Kant…everything in reality fits into
one of his 12 categories which are derived from the human mind………

Even the so called object/subject division of many centuries
is really just another aspect of anthropormorphism…….

the very way you understand the universe is based on human understanding
and human needs and human reason…………. the very way you understand
the universe is simple anthropormorphism………………

now, this anthropormorphism which has existed since the day apes,
climbed down the tree and first became human… is this a good thing,
a bad thing or a neutral thing???

should we begin to understand reality, nature by removing the
anthropormorphism that naturally exists within man, or should
we just accept it and move on?

the very way we see and understand reality and nature is based
on this anthropormorphism…. should we do something about it?

Kropotkin

if the way we understand the universe is strictly based on
our mental understanding then even such a matter as god, gods,
heaven, hell, spirituality, even religion is simply a
matter of human construct. In other words, religion
and spirituality is simply another form of
anthropormorphism…………………

we create the gods, they don’t create us…….

Kropotkin

words that show the anthropormorphism of human beings……

perfect, beauty, aesthetics, truth, reality, laws, tree……

for example, does a tree know itself to be a tree or does a tree just exists?

the name is unimportant for existing, living things like tree’s, dogs, cats,
cattle, they don’t name themselves, they just exists……

and show me beauty in nature and it will correspond to some
human attributes…the same for words like perfect
and truth and aesthetics, they exist because humans have so
constructed such words to mean something… they don’t actually
exists in reality………

we need a reevaluation of what reality really is, not just what humans
have anthropormorphise what reality or nature is, but what it really is………

Kropotkin

early morning musings…

let us begin with a rather famous quote:

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others”

Now this is a rather famous line from Orwell’s “Animal Farm” ……

all animals are equal but some more equal then others……

This is an equation. We have on one side of the equation,
“all animals are equal” and on the other side of the equation,
“but some animals are more equal”………

as is true, all animals are equal… that cannot be denied…
as acknowledged by the “declaration of independence”…
“All men are created equal” but some try to deny this,
some try to claim that some people are naturally superior…
but you have to understand the context of the statement
that “all men are created equal” ………

the statement “all men are equal” is not about some personal
ideal that all men have equal abilities but all men should
be treated equal and have equal rights…it says nothing about
any personal ability but about our rights to equal justice…
and justice is nothing more then being treated equal by the law,
every single person being treated equally with equal rights…

this concept says nothing about a person’s ability…
it says that Einstein should be treated equal to John Doe,
legally and having equal rights… nothing more…

what a person does with those rights and equality is
up to the person…………

so I reject the idea that “some people are more equal then others”

for there to be justice in the land, people must be treated equally under
the law… simple as that…

Kropotkin