I have a TV basically for sports… I really don’t watch the news or watch
any TV shows, there is one TV show I watch and that the “Orville”…
in watching sports, they are always selling things, cars, especially cars
during sporting events, one also gets fast food commercials and occasionally
hardware stores and the like…
everyone is trying to sell something…and we can include other things
people try to sell… for example, religion is trying to sell a viewpoint,
buy our product and get the one true religion which is no different then
selling cars or deodorant… pick our product because you will be sexy or
cool or well liked… religion sells other intangibles, pick our true religion
and you will have eternal life and the blessing
of god…now I am not in the market for a religion because I don’t want
what they are selling… I think eternal life is a nightmare and I am not
interesting in glorifying a inept and incompetent god…you can’t frighten
me with eternal damnation because I work in retail, nothing scares you in retail
because you have been damned already…
so if I am not interesting in what religion is selling, what I am I interested in
buying? understanding and truth are concepts I am buying…and those
concepts are found in bits and pieces in history and economics and poli-sci
and philosophy…
truths I have bought… because we humans are constructed the same way,
we have many of the same responses…we experience things in roughly the
same way and as we experience… we understand…
if we were cats, we would experience matter differently because cats
are constructed a different way then human beings… they have
different type of eyes and hearing and touch and smell and so they
experience matter differently then we do and so they have the roughly
same reaction to matter as cats… as we humans have roughly the same reaction
to matter because we are constructed the same way…the placement of
our eyes and the quality of our eyes allows, gives us a certain reaction to
matter because of where are our eyes sit on our body…and we are all within
a certain height range which allows/ gives us a certain range for us to react to
matter…
to understand, we must experience… without experience we cannot hope
to understand who we are and what are we to do…
we are not fixed in our understanding of the universe…
we can change what our understanding of the universe is…
in other words, we can rewire or reprogram ourselves…
we are presently confused as to what we are to do because
we don’t have a goal or a destination in mind, once we have a goal
or destination, we shall no longer be restless or confused or have this malaise
that is ever present in today’s society…
in other words, once we decide on what we are doing with our energy,
we shall be one again, be in flow, not be alienated from who we are and what
is our purpose… a goal creates purpose and a certain flow to who we are…
we become ourselves again once we have decided what is our goal/destination…
we can shape our own destinies once we have decided on who we are and
what we do with our energies…
we are, each of us, part of many different types of systems
and if we want to better be able to understand what our function in
life is, the more we need to be able to understand systems and how
they work…I exist within several dozens systems as do you,
but the systems wont’ work without the individual parts to make it work…
so we need the systems and the systems needs us, as individuals…
we must work together, the systems and us if we are, both, to succeed…
what else have you learned?
Kropotkin