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