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