Just had long talk with my mom…
it is extremely rare that I get to talk to someone about
philosophical matter…and it was a nice change of pace of talking
philosophy instead of writing like I always do…
I realized that I have pieces of very large puzzle in my mind
and I am trying to fit that puzzle together…part of that puzzle is
this question of who we are…as I have laid out part of my understanding/experience
of who we are in my understanding of people as being wired/programmed by
genetics/DNA, by society/the family, church, the state, schools, media…
part of that programming is education… are we educating people to be “better”
people or are we “educating” people to become better workers and consumers?
part of our education is to train people to become workers, to have a skill in which
to earn a living… that is programming, rewiring of people…to indoctrinate
people into thinking that their choices are limited to what cereal they can choose
or what car we can buy, not to what kind of human being we can be…
“the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is not about economic choices,
but about our choices as human beings…the word “liberty” is an older word which
also means freedom…liberty and freedom mean the same thing…but in the older
sense of the word in which we can choose to be more then just economic beings…
and how does this understanding of human beings lead us to an understanding
of what are we to do?
how does the question of what are we to do, means to the idea of ethics and morality?
what are we to do as to why, why must we act ethically or morally?
and what ethics or morality must we choose based on our understanding of
who we are? how we treat people is directly based upon our understanding
of who we are… are we the selfish, greedy people of conservatism or are we
we the “liberal” understanding of who human beings are? the more I explore
and understand who human beings are, the more I see that the conservative
understanding of who we are is wrong… just plain and simple, wrong…
we are social creatures who need other human beings… and what
does this mean to our understanding of ethics and morality?
we exist within systems, what does this mean to our understanding of
ethics and morality?
and these pieces of the puzzle and no clear way to connect the various
dots of this very large puzzle…
I see the various aspects of the puzzle, entropy and systems and our
pursuit of happiness and ethics and morality and our understanding of
who are and what are we to do and I cannot for the life of me, find
something to connect the dots…but I follow the path of Icarus, in which
I am for something very high and out of reach and risk failure and crashing
and burning… and I don’t care… let me crash and burn for it is better to fail
reaching the stars then achieve some easy goal like making money or following
the tired path of being a “good consumer” I write for the future for
because no one knows or care what I write today… for people are too
engaged in their nihilism of the pursuit of profit and money… for we
are a nihilist society that places the pursuit of profit over human values
like knowledge of what makes a better person or how shall we find the truth?
values like love and justice and charity and kindness are destroyed in the
name of profit for profit… for pursuit of profit doesn’t care about indeed
doesn’t want justice or love or happiness or kindness because it interferes with
the pursuit of profit… there is no profit in justice or kindness or love or charity…
this is just another piece of the puzzle I and engaged in…if we are
creatures that can rewrite or reprogram ourselves, then what kind
of society, political or economic should we have then? if we are to be moral,
ethically involved people, then what kind of society should we have?
if biology determines that we are a certain sort of people, then how
should we organize society, politically and economically?
many pieces of the puzzle and very little knowledge of how to
create a unified, coherent understanding of all it all works together…
I shall keep plugging away, not for the present, because no one
knows or cares if I live or die, but I write for the future…
Kropotkin