a new understanding of today, time and space.

I don’t pretend to know God stuff all that much,
but as far as i know, God has a physical aspect to it.
These forces took billions of years to create and grow what we have.
They are slow moving. If god was all-mightly, infinitely, then it wouldn’t
take time to create the universe. Instead, we see a slow, difficult universe,
which took so long to make, which breaks down at times, and is not finished.

Omni-ultimate stuff is a christian idea.
They don’t like the idea of a god that has limitations and needs time to get things done.

after several ugly days at work, finally have a day off…

First you experience then you understand…

this is my formula…

now this is true for all of us…

so what about our big questions…

Who are we?
how are we to live?
What is the right thing to do?

we are social creatures as noted before…

so our response must be, we are social creatures that experience…
and by experiences, we begin to understand…

as we are social creatures who live in families and exist
within several other systems beside the family…

our experiences teach us that we get back what we sow…
if we offer kindness, we get back kindness and if we offer
love, we get back love…

and if we offer up violence, we get violence back and if we offer
up hate, we get hate back…

so those who claim that the world is a cold, tough, unloving,
selfish by their acting upon these idea’s create the very
world they claim the world is…

in another words, they act as if the world were as they claim, and in doing
so, they do create that world… it is a self fulfilling prophecy…
their very actions create the world that they claim exists…
if they acted differently, they would create a different world…

we are the creators of the world… the very behavior of humans create
the world in which we live in… if we all drive for money and live by a
“me first” understanding, that is the world we create…

Nature… the sea and land and sky and air and animals…
and the planets and sun and galaxies… they don’t know about or
care about us…the only thing that changes is our behavior and our
experiences about those behaviors…

one of the things about life… one of the criteria for life is
that there is a feedback loop… and we not only have a personal, built in
feedback loop but every system has a feedback loop… every single family
and every single system we exist in has a feedback loop…
and our behavior toward others creates a feedback loop back to
ourselves…if you behave badly toward others…what will be
the feedback? others will behave badly toward you… it is our experience that
when people behave badly toward us, we react in kind…

in other words, our experiences creates the world and how we behave
toward others, creates how the world will react to us…

humans react to kindness with kindness and hate with hate
and love with love and meanness with meanness and so on…

that is what our experiences have shown us…

you know how to act and behave and be toward others because
you know how you would act, behave or experience, if others acted
or behave in certain ways toward you…

our experiences, both collective and individually, create feedback loops
toward others and back toward ourselves…

so the question becomes… what feedback loop do you want toward you?
and what feedback loop do you want to send out to others?

so we must become more aware of our actions and be mindful of
our ideals that we act upon… is the world kind? that is true if we act
that way…and is the world love? that is true if we act that way…
and is the world mean? that is true if we act that way…
and is the world a harsh place? that is true if we act that way…

Kropotkin

K: the way the universe itself works, it is as you say slow and imperfect
and not very efficient, that the universe is so badly created would suggest
that either there is a very inept, incompetent god or no god at all…
and this very question of how god interacts with matter… leaves much to
be desired…just as Descartes had trouble with his idea that all
we are is mind but that leaves the problem of how does the mind interact
with the physical… if god is spirit, how does spirit interact with matter?
this very question leaves us in a quandary…how does spirit interact with matter?
I just don’t know…and gives up pause for the existence of god…

Kropotkin

let us be clear… when we talk about a world that is harsh or mean or
tough or unforgiving… we are not, NOT, talking about the world…
we are not talking about planet earth or the sea or the sky or the land
or polar bears or the sun or the many galaxies around us…
the earth and all its many parts don’t give a rats ass about us humans…

no, we are talking about human interaction with other humans…
we are talking about a society that’s for human beings, of human beings
by human beings…and our actions and interactions with society and other
other human beings is what is harsh or tough or mean or unforgiving…

it is us that create the harsh and mean and unforgiving world…

but we don’t have to create a harsh or mean or unforgiving world…
we can create another world, a kinder, gentler more forgiving world…
we have created, human beings who lived in the past, have
created our current situation… but we don’t have to live
that way… we aren’t committed in stone to live our lives
as our ancestors did… we can change the basic nature of society
and we can change the basic nature of who we are…

by answering the call of our higher nature, not our lower nature…
we can teach our children that we humans are about love and trust and
hope and yes, even faith… but we are also capable of terrible deeds
and those deeds are the result of us answering the call of our lower nature…
hate, anger, mistrust, violence, are some examples of our lower nature…

we know from experiences that our lower nature leads us to commits
terrible actions against our fellow human beings… we have seen it time and
time again…but this time, we say in a loud and clear voice, we
are of the higher nature, not the lower nature… we, by our experiences,
know that we create a harsh and mean and unforgiving world, when we
act from our lower nature…we decide what kinda world we live in…
if we act from our lower nature, we get a mean, harsh, violent world…
if we act from our higher nature, we get love, peace,

the answer to how do we get peace is simple, we no longer accept
the idea that we are about, me first, we no longer follow
the precept that life is about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”
for it is this pursuit of happiness that has created this mean, harsh world…
when we follow this self egotism of pursing what is in MY best interest,
that we follow that which is the lower nature of the human soul…
for the higher ideals are about us, and the lower ideals are about me…
and that has made all the difference in the world…

you want to create a better world, follow your higher nature, your higher
instincts which is about us… if you want the same crappy world with
its “harsh, mean, unforgiving” world… follow those lower instincts,
your lower nature of pursing your happiness, your own best interests…
and you will get harsh and mean and nasty… for that is the lower instincts,
the lower nature of who we are… mean, harsh, nasty, unforgiving, hate, anger,
violent…and that is the world you are creating when you follow your lower
instincts, your lower nature…

we create our own reality, but we must create with others…
it is in those interactions with others that answer the question,
what kind of world do we live in?

Kropotkin

in light of my prior post, I was thinking about the question
of good and evil…

good and evil are not questions or answers outside of us, but
exist within us… we are the bearers of good and evil and
we are the executors of good and evil…nature, that which is
floods and storms and tornados and rocks falling from the sky,
they are indifferent to us humans, they don’t care or know about
human beings… we might call them good or evil but they
don’t give a rats ass about us…

good and evil are actions of a human being toward other human beings…

when we listen to our higher self and love and hope and reward justice,
we are good and when we listen to our lower self, where we hate,
and have anger and are violent… that is evil…

we have no need for a god or a devil, when we have human actions
against other human beings…

when we treat a fellow human being as a end to a goal, such as
when we use human beings to increase profits, that is evil…
we create evil by our own actions to our fellow man…
when we put humans in prisons or torture or have violence,
we are practicing evil against our fellow man…

when we practice hope and charity and love and peace toward
our fellow human beings, we are practicing good…

we ourselves are the carrier of good and evil…

you want to eliminate evil, begin with your choice of following
either your higher self or your lower self…
that is all it takes…follow your higher self, your choice is good
and if you follow your lower self, that is evil… simple enough…

decide to follow good or evil, that choice is yours and the choices
you make will decide if your little bit of the world is good or evil…

decide and become an agent of good or decide to become an agent of evil…

the choice is yours…

Kropotkin

the origins of evil:

the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain…

Kropotkin

men look at the “laws” of capitalism with favor…
it is said that capitalism creates winners and losers
and that is said with approval by men of faith, faith in money…

but it is said that the laws of communism is wrong
to treat men with equality is wrong and “evil”…

one law is met with approval and the other law with
disapproval…

very selective about which “laws” we approve of and disapprove of…
whereas I don’t see the difference between the two laws…

Kropotkin

it is said that we are “determined” because we have “laws” like
the speed of light and the “law of gravity” and evolution…
and we cannot escape or circumnavigate these “laws” and
thus we are “determined”

but the free will vs determinism problem is not about
escaping so called “laws of nature” because we cannot
escape or circumnavigate these “laws”…
but so what…

we have free will because we can respond to
our instincts of violence and hate and anger with
other responses like non-violence and peace and love

if we respond with our lower instincts, we are determined,
but if we respond with our higher instincts of peace and non-violence
we are free… that is the measure of the determinism vs free will problem…

how do we respond… with instincts or with rational thought…

Kropotkin

LIFE = experiences…

we are born, that is an experience…
we have things happen to us… those are experiences…
we die, that is an experience… just one we cannot give any sort of
report on…

life is just a series of experiences and then we spend the rest of the time
attempting to understanding those experiences…

I fell in love… what does that experience mean?

I broke a leg… what does that experience mean?

at times we fall into crisis because we are unable to
make sense of our experiences…

what does being human mean?

what is the truth? and does the truth only exists for a human being?
what is the truth of experience?

some day it all get to be so much, we say fuck it and some watch
the “real housewives of Orange county” which is what my wife does…
and I binge watch some Star trek series…DS9 right now…

but no matter how hard I try to escape those questions…

at night in the quiet of the dark…I hear those questions…
like fog blanketing the air…what is truth? what is life? what
is the meaning of experiences and what is the truth of experiences?

I don’t know… I don’t know…I don’t know

and I am as haunted by my failure as much as I am haunted by
the questions that so torment me…

it would be a shame if I don’t get my answers before I leave this life…
and it is becoming clearer by the day, that maybe, maybe I won’t get my
answers before my time is up and that makes me work harder at
studying and thinking and reflecting on what it means to be human…

I resent those times taken away from me…
that prevents me from my work at hand…

the understanding of who we are and what we are
and what are we suppose to do…

I can’t depend on some vague promise of a “next life” to
give me some hope of finding answers…

perhaps the point isn’t to find answers, but to ask the questions…

maybe the point is to make us aware of something beyond just
walking about in our dreams and being fixated in our daily routine…

awake, awake… you have a life to lead…

the life of a dull routine of working a 9 to 5 job or trying to get
that promotion… the working life is meant to anesthetize you to
the real questions… the questions we are meant to ask…

what is the point of being human? what does the experience of being
human actually mean?

walk away from anything that doesn’t lead you to questioning…
question everything… and become aware…

aware of what… one might ask?

ask yourself? become aware of what?

Kropotkin

if you look at the years between 1600 and 1789,
you find that there was a transition from the old way of thinking,
the medieval pattern of thought to the modern way of thinking…

the path was lead by science and science was all about seeing for oneself
and not depending on any sort of traditional or authority basis…
like depending on Aristotle for your understanding of the world or
depending on the authority of reveal revelation of the bible…

the world that the new way of thinking found was different but
still understandable in terms of our experiences… the world was one
of many worlds and circled the sun with other planets… this new thinking
was not about the difficulty of the premise, but about the training
and customs that was one was taught since childhood…we had
to break free of the traditional way of thinking about things, but the
idea’s themselves of circling the sun was not hard…it is just hard to
switch one’s thinking from what was one was taught…

we have the new science which is different then the old science…
today we have quantum mechanics and the superstring theory and
attempts to have a Grand unified theory of everything…

these thoughts are not part of everyday experiences…I just
can’t find a common experiences which allows me to easily understand
superstring theory or quantum mechanics…

and that is part of the problem today…the framework of modern science
is not easily understood and not really part of our everyday experiences…

thus we have a hard time trying to make sense of modern science…
turn it into a philosophical framework like the philosophers of the
17 and 18 century did…we don’t have a Descartes or a Hobbes or a Locke
to turn the current scientific theories into understandable philosophy of life…

from our childhood training and customs taught us from birth, we
have been taught to believe in science but and this is important
we don’t understand current science, so we are left without
some support from modern science… it is hard to believe in something
you don’t understand like modern science… and one of the basis of
modern society is the belief in science…so we have a problem…
how can we believe in science when we don’t actually understand it…

and as modern children, we have lost our respect for religion
so we don’t have that basis for our understanding of the world…
we don’t have science to believe and we don’t have religion to believe in,
so, what exactly are we to believe in?

this is the basis of the modern problem…

we are in a crisis and we don’t even know it…
because our traditional standards of belief are gone…
science and religion are both in disgrace and we have
nothing to replace them with…

this has been the crisis of the last 117 years, since the turn of the 20 century…
we have the world wars and the holocaust and the cold war and terrorism,
all events stemming from our lack of something solid to believe in,
like science or religion…a new way is needed. a new way of seeing
things, of understanding things… Nietzsche saw this back in 1880’s…
the coming age, he said, was an age of Nihilism and what is Nihilism?
the general rejection of customary beliefs…the rejection of
science and the rejection of religion… but what to do?

what can replace science and what can replace religion?

that is our task… the modern man task is to find a new way…
to find a new understanding of the modern world in which
we use experiences to create a new model of belief, a new model
of how we understand the world… using science AND religion together,
to create a new, not necessarily better, but new…understanding
of who we are and what is possible for us human beings…

the question is before us… who is brave enough, bold enough to
stand alone and be a creator of values… values that will
give purpose and understanding to the modern world…

who among us… is that leader?

who indeed…

Kropotkin

what is the great discovery, the great change between
the medieval times and the modern age?

During the enlightenment, the great change was change, time…

during the medieval era, everything was fixed, it didn’t change…
man, animals, the earth, god, there was no change, no time for
the medieval man…

during the enlightenment, we discovered the idea of change, of time passing…
this wasn’t a fixed universe we lived in, but a universe that existed in time and
changed over time…this idea of change and of time passing is often lost
even today…time passes and change occurs… this is true of matter and of us,
and of science and of biology… Darwin theory of evolution was a theory of change,
of time passing…modern science is full of theories of change and of time passing…
yet, we human beings think of time and of change not passing, not changing…

we must adapt our thinking to accommodate this idea of change, of time passing…

we change, time passes for us… and we still have fixed idea’s of thinking like
conservatism that deny change and of time passing…

begin here… time passes and change is the basic and essential
aspect of life… all philosophy and all science must begin here…

time passes and change occurs…begin here…

Kropotkin

here, at this point we understand now…

it is this ide of change, of time passing that frightens modern
man…the conservative love of the medieval times lies here,
in its fixed belief in the universe and of man…

it is not evolution that the conservative fights, but the idea of change
and of time passing…

you, who fights the modern age, fight this idea of change and of time passing…

science and philosophy are about change and time passing…

and you hate it, oh conservative mind…

that accounts for the love of god in these days…
god suggest that change doesn’t happen and time doesn’t change
it is this permanence that conservatives love… not god, but
that the idea that god is permanent and change and time never happen…
which explains why conservatives love Plato and his eternal forms…
fixed and unchanging… that is what conservatives love

but time and change do occur…

and the conservative, in his heart of hearts knows this…
so this is the crisis of the conservative…
they hate change and time passing, but it does change and time does pass…

so conservative… how do you solve this crisis?

Kropotkin

the love of patriotism is really the love of the static, unmoving universe…

to love one country is to love what was, WAS, best in the country
and patriotism is really love of that/those static qualities which
in America is those tired and stale words, Truth, justice and the American way…

but truth and justice and the American all change, they all exist in time
and have changed over time…what was truth for our founding fathers is
no longer truth today and what is justice is no longer justice as thought of
by those same founding fathers and the American way… I defy any to
offer up a valid and coherent MODERN definition of the American way…

no, patriotism is love of a static and unchanging America…
an America that no longer exists because it has change and time
itself is the agent of change… we are no longer who we were because
we have existed within time and the very fact we have gone through time
means we have changed and our society, our culture, our political and
economic structure has change because it has gone through time…

we cannot understand who we are and who is America without understanding
that we have and society has gone through time and has changed…

Kropotkin

so the philosophy of the future is less about the static
philosophy of Descartes or Kant and more like Darwin…
it must be able to change and adapt… in fact, the heart
of the philosophy of the future is change…for the human being
is not static, not changeable, but the human being exists in time
and changes all the time, we change because we age, we change
because of experiences, we change because of our insights into
experiences…if there is one thing about life we can state for sure,
that it changes… and the philosophy of the future must be able to
account for the ever changing life that is the human being…

that is why we cannot, cannot use math as a guidepost into the
philosophy of the future because math doesn’t change…it isn’t
adaptable for daily use…we can use science because the facts of
science change all the time, but those facts rarely tell us anything
about us as human beings, those facts tell us about us as animals,
but not as human beings and those facts never lead to a why…
why do we exist? how we exist science can tell us, but not the why…

we might turn to religion but religion is static, unchanging,
unmoving…religion is fixed into a certain time and place,
unable to adapt to the ever changing world and
ever changing human beings that live in that world…

no, philosophy is the only possible path into the future but
as I said, a philosophy more like evolution and less like
Descartes…

the philosophy of the future will look something like this…

Kropotkin

the philosophy of the future…

in the beginning… was… it existed billions of years ago…

and in time came, the earth and the sun and all the planets…
then came the sea and sky and land, then came life…
and even life itself ebbed and flowed… from days of prosperity
to lean days and back again… life itself was threaten with
extinction multiple times but it bounced back…

and after billions of years, from a large pool of life came us…
we humans, so proud and yet we must admit we are latecomers
to this parade of life…

we came from apes and lizards and frogs and multi-cell creatures of all types…
our family history is a long and complicated one…we are related to fly’s and
cats and cows and dogs and all types of life…

our very existence is about one change to another to another to another…
billions of years of evolution has brought us to today…

we are part of all those animals that we came from…
so the second fact about us, us human beings is we are of and from animals…
we are the product of billions of years of evolution…
but we are the first to be able to ask,
what are we going to be tomorrow?

animals have a wide variety of survival skills… some run fast and some
are strong and some have sharp teeth and some have sharp claws…
but what are the survival skills of the human creature?
language and reason and imagination… those are the skill set of human beings
that has allow us to survive for a couple of million of years…

we are a problem solving species…and language and reason and imagination
allow us to solve problems…

we have evolved as a species and that evolution is marked in our
ever larger and ever changing social structure by the ever growing infrastructure
we humans have… we have gone from the small family structure to a world wide
network of connections and interconnections that tie us together as human beings…
the human race has grown from a few thousand to billions and the infrastructure
needed to manage that number has grown as well…that marks our evolution…
the ever larger and ever changing infrastructure needed for us…an infrastructure
that allows human beings to go on and prosper…

we cannot be tied down or fixed into an ism or ideology that doesn’t change
and adapt with the ever changing conditions of human life…

politics and economics and history and social studies all change and adapt
to ever changing conditions of humans… so why must philosophy be fixed
and tied down to a set philosophy?..

just as because of changing human conditions, we have changed economic systems,
from hunter/gatherer to barter systems to communism to socialism to capitalism,
are just some of the economic systems we have had in our million year existence…

and we have changed political systems to adapt to ever changing conditions, from
monarchy to dictatorship to democracy to oligarchy and beyond… we
have had many different types of political systems to adapt to the ever changing
human conditions…

and yet philosophy is suppose to be a fixed, one size fits all proposition…
it cannot be…it to must change and adapt to the ever changing conditions
of the human being…

an open ended philosophy… one that doesn’t limit us to one or even two
choices, but is open to every choice…because at one time or another,
every choice is possible for a human being… for freedom is choice…
to be free means we are free to choose and we have choices available to us…

I cannot choose to be a mother for biology prevents me… I am, in that way,
determined, but I can choose to be a father and in doing so, I validate
that possibility…

so the question of free will vs determinism is really one about what is
possible for me… biology and other such factors prevent me from making
certain choices… I cannot choose to fly by flapping my arms… but I can
choose to fly an airplane… biology determines, limits certain choices,
but we can make other choices which is free will…so we are determined
and we have free will…and we have lived with that for a million years
and as long as human beings exists, we shall continue to live with it…

among human beings choices is the higher choices and the lower choices…
we can choose our animal nature of lower instincts like anger and hate
and violence or we can choose our higher human nature which is love and
peace and charity and kindness… biology doesn’t prevent us from making
these choices, they are free will choices…and which choice will you make?
the higher or lower choices?

nowhere in the philosophy of the future is talk of meaning or purpose or
the will of anyone…those things have no right to exist in the future…
for meaning and purpose is found every single day with the choices we make…
it is in our free will that we find our meaning, our purpose…

more to come…

Kropotkin

and with our choices, we can choose to follow security
or freedom or justice… if we choose security, we by that
choice, limit our choices… for to protect ourselves and that is
what we mean by security, we must limit the rights of people…
we must narrow the choices of people… to protect ourselves, we
cannot allow free and open immigration, we must have walls and borders
and police and military presence everywhere… we must feel safe and
by limiting choices, we can feel safe…

or we can choose justice and justice is about equality…
justice is the act of treating everyone equally regardless
of status or wealth or power or job… everyone gets treated the same…
the only choice we make with justice is to treat everyone equally…
there is no other choice possible…

and that is the power of the human being… we make choices…
animals cannot make choices, instinct decides for them…
but we human, we are creatures that choose… we can choose
tangible objects like food or the TV or walking or we can choose
the intangible like choosing justice or security…

philosophy is not just about, for example, Leibniz made monads the centerpiece
of his philosophy, but philosophy is about how are we to live…
philosophy is a way of life… it is a choice to live in a certain way…

philosophy is about choices and how we make those choices…
the philosophy of the future is about choices and how we make those choices…

why should we choose justice over security…

and choosing justice over security creates our purpose and our meaning…
and justice becomes a way of life…making choices and seeing what
are our possibilities as human beings… that is philosophy…

Kropotkin

the philosophy of the future is an holistic matter…
it has no Descartes mind/ body dilemma because it
encompasses, not separates the mind/body…

the philosophy of the future includes, it doesn’t exclude…
is it a system? like Hegel or Spinoza? no, it isn’t a system
but it talks about systems because we exists in a wide variety
of systems as we ourselves are a system…

the question in any system is how much dissent, opposition
can a system handle before it begins to break down? how many parts
of a car can break down before the car stops working…
one if the system is a key component…several if the parts are
not necessary ones like the radio and the headlights and the dashboard
lights don’t work, it doesn’t affect the fact the car still runs…

every system has its breaking point and we must discover our political
system and economic and social systems breaking point…

the philosophy of the future investigates the breaking point of those systems…
and wonders how much dissent we can allow before the system breaks down…

it is only by feedback…dissent can we return to equilibrium… we
no longer are at equilibrium in our systems and we need to have dissent
to understand how to return to equilibrium…

because it is in equilibrium that keeps a system running…
a system that no longer has equilibrium, begins to fail and will soon
stop… our political and economic and social systems have begun to
fail and that is because we no longer are in equilibrium with our systems…

equilibrium is balance and we have lost balance in our systems…
both in the system itself and in our relationship with our systems,
we have lost balance…

the philosophy of the future is about balance and equilibrium
and systems and how to maintain that balance and maintain
that equilibrium and how to keep the system running…

the equation is the philosophy of the future…
1 + 1 = 2… this is the balance and the equation we strive after…

so imagine… what is your philosophy of the future?

Kropotkin

in our philosophy of the future…
we not only listen to reason but we listen to emotion…

I have in trying to find a course of action in my life,
used reason… and in my use of reason, I quite often
missed some aspect… my reason missed possibilities…
I know of women who used emotions and intuition who have
studied the same course of action and by emotion and intuition
saw the aspects I missed… quite often women have a better
grasp of a situation then men do and that is by emotion
and intuition… recall, that we are a problem solving
species and some problems are best solved by reason and logic
and some problems are best solved by emotion and intuition…

the philosophy of the future will integrate reason and logic with
emotion and intuition…for we have skills of survival, tools
we use that allow us to survive…language, reason, imagination
are some of the tools that has allowed the human being
to survive these million years and some of those tools are
emotion and intuition and we have to account for these tools
in our philosophy of the future…

what is the role of emotion and intuition in our lives and for our future?

Kropotkin

the philosophy of the future:

the title of the book is “Critique of the modern age”

the critique is an attempt to find out what is authentic,
what is truly believe in and what is worth believing in…

what is authentic? those who claim belief in god… do they believe because
they were taught to do so as children, or do they believe because they fear
eternal damnation and want/expect an eternal reward of heaven…
do these believers believe because it is a custom to believe, something
the neighbors do and everyone wants to fit into the neighborhood…

a true believer is one who believes in god even, even if there was no
reward or punishment for belief or disbelief…and regardless of what
the neighbors think and regardless of how you were raised…

believers often believe because it is socially acceptable…
and how is that authentic?

so what is really worth believing in?

and what is price paid for having such beliefs?

one can rightly say that this is an unauthentic age…
for what beliefs do we hold that are by themselves
and not held for insincere reasons like custom and being
socially acceptable?

there is a cost for holding insincere beliefs
and that cost is living in a false reality…

Kropotkin

last night, I dreamt I was skating on frozen pond…

all I could see was the ice stretching as far as the eye could see…

and there were hundreds and thousands, indeed millions skating on this ice…

everyone was laughing and giggling and having a grand old time…

but I saw something that these millions didn’t see…

they could only see the thin layer of ice they skated on…

not seeing the depths of the water below them…

not knowing how deep the water below them really went…

the people didn’t care or know or understand,

how shallow was the ice below them…

the people could only see the ice below them

and thinking that is all there was…

ice that went on forever…

the depth of the ice was not even thought about…

and this is a parable of our modern age…

our understanding runs only as deep as that thin ice…

but we philosophers… we must look beyond the thin ice we exist on

we must delve deep into experiences and deep below the ice…

what does it mean? that is thought beyond the shallow ice…

how are we to live?

finding the answer means going to the depths of our existence…

we must dive deep to find our truths…

not everyone makes it back from such deep depths…

one man collapsed while hugging a horse…

he finally felt the weight of those deep dives into our soul…

that is why we must have a secure line back to the surface…

without it, we could become lost in the misty depths of our soul…

I… I could never be happy just skimming the ice and thinking

that this is all there is… just a layer of ice…

I must explore the depths…I must dive deep…

what does it matter to me… that you skim the surface…

I want to know… what is below…

and that is the difference between us…

Kropotkin