now I have suggested that humans are creatures that can rewire themselves…
we can react differently then our original coding wants…we can overcome
that original coding/programming that all animals have… we can overcome
fear for example…we can overcome violence, we can overcome, not succumb
to our basic instincts, our basic coding/programming…
now many subscribe to the view that MAN is set in his ways…
Like Machiavelli, who thought that a man was like a leopard in
behavior in that a man was set in his ways like a leopard had spots,
a leopard could no more change its spots then a man could change his
behavior, good or evil, Machiavelli meant more about a person being
evil not being able to change their ways then good, but the point still stands…
but if we can be reprogrammed, rewired, then it is not true that we
are like the leopard who can’t change our spots…we can change…
can the man who is a coward at heart find the courage to stand one time and be brave,
yes, can the miser relearn, rewire himself to become liberal, to give to charity,
yes, the cowardly lion and scrooge point to this…
this is a very important about who we are… we are not fixed and set in
who we are… we can relearn, reprogram/rewire ourselves to some
other setting… be it to go from being mean to being nice, or the other way…
to go from being a coward to being brave… we know of people who have, for
whatever reason, gone from being conservative to being liberal and that is
a major mental reset or reprogramming… but it happens… it happened to
Ronnie Raygun who went from liberal democrat to right wing conservative
in roughly 20 years…if we are not set in our ways, then why choose to
be conservative, why choose to be mean, why choose to be a hater and feed
into your anger and hate and your lower animal instincts when you can choose
to be liberal, tolerant, open minded, being liberal means having an positive
and uplifting idea of what it means to be human… not to accept Machiavelli
viewpoint about people being fixed in their programming/coding…
this is the very heart of what it means to be human, what it means to be us…
we are social creatures who can change and become something different…
we are not fixed in what it means to be human and we can choose to overcome
our original programming/coding… we can choose to no longer be afraid,
to no longer hold our fellow human beings in contempt and hate them…
if you are conservative, you are scrooge… and he learned to overcome
himself and become something else, something better, something more human…
it is not enough for the courage for our beliefs,
but we must have the courage for an attack upon our beliefs…
some dead white guy said this and if a dead white guy said it,
it must be true, right?
Kropotkin