we have a multitude of systems like there are galaxies in the sky…
and like galaxies, the systems on earth not only cover height, depth,
width but cover time… just like those pictures of the multitude of
galaxies in pictures we see from the Hubble… how do we tell where we
fit into such a large group of systems…when we can’t even tell where
the milky way system lies in a group of galaxies…little less our own little
solar system…this very size of everything keeps us from knowing where
we are… which leads us to the next problem…
perhaps the greatest understanding of human nature occurred under
Marx with his analysis of alienation…but how does this alienation occur?
we have a multitude of systems, economic, political, social/society and
cultural…and we can become alienated by the systems preventing us
from actions such as our feedback loop and adaptation… a system preventing
us from giving our feedback leads to our alienation from the system…
and we see this today, with millions of people being alienated from various
systems including the economic, political, social, cultural…
now we can be alienated from one or more of these systems leading to
not only alienation but angst and anxiety and despair…
I am clearly alienated from the economic system we have…
and I can either learn to accept it or, or fight the system…
I have chosen to fight…I am to a lessor degree, alienated
from the political and to an even lessor degree from the social/society…
and I don’t give a shit about the cultural, so I am not alienated from that…
and people are in various stages of acceptance or alienation of/from
the various systems…how well do we fit into the various
systems is a factor of alienation… and we cannot fit into every single system
because of the sheer number of systems we have, so on some level,
everybody is alienated from one or two systems to many, many systems…
and responses can be from taking guns and shooting at innocent people,
a rather gutless and shameful action because guns and violence never
solve anything to feeling angst and anxiety and despair about oneself…
much of our current problems stem from our alienation and anxiety
from not being connected to our systems, not being part of the system
and not allowing our input and feedback and adaptation to be accepted
by the system…we are uncomfortable with and shut out of our many systems
in which we belong to, be it economic, political, social/society and cultural…
the anger and frustration many feel comes from being shut out of our systems,
not allowing system functions like feedback to allow the system to adapt to
the feelings of the people…we are shut out of many systems and that causes
angst and anxiety and anger and despair and all the other feelings we have as
we become more and more alienated from those systems…
and the question remains, given all of the above, how do I live my life?
Kropotkin