1: Value: the regard that something is held to deserve;
the importance, worth, or usefulness of something…
2: a person’s principles or standards of behavior:
one’s judgement of what is important in life…
so, one might ask why is this important…
it tells us that values are important…
values are what? a limited list of values;
authenticity, achievement, authority, balance, beauty,
boldness, compassion, community, competency, creativity,
curiosity, fairness, faith, fame, happiness, honesty, humor,
influence, inner harmony, justice, kindness, knowledge,
love, loyalty, openness, optimism, peace, poise, recognition,
respect, responsibility, security, service, spirituality, stability, success,
status, trustworthiness, wealth, wisdom… again, basically listed
in alphabetical order…and by no means a comprehensive list…
so what are values? Values gives or creates context to experience…
we have an experience and by the use of values, we can understand
the role and function and the why of a given experience…
I marry a women… that is an action… but the action needs some
context and that context is a value… love…I love my wife, so I married
her to create a bond, a new system with marriage being stability
of the relationship/system… in other words, marriage acts like
gravity to keep and hold a system together, like the sun holds the
planets with gravity… a marriage holds the couple together and what
is that value or context of marriage? love is the value or context of the marriage…
every action taken, must have a context and values creates that context…
every experience… experienced, must have a context and values creates that context…
if we act without values, then our actions are random and meaningless…
we are isolated from any context that our actions may have…
if we make actions without context/values… we are being inauthentic
in a way that makes us alienated from society and ourselves…
an action without values means that we are acting as an completely
isolated matter outside of any given system… that randomness
threatens the system… we cannot have that type of randomness
in our social systems, ism’s and ideologies, we cannot have that randomness
in our biological systems, life and human beings and dogs and…
we cannot have that type of randomness in our natural systems like the
solar system and workings of the galaxies…
values given context to our actions… to our experiences…
without values, our actions will not make any sense or
neither will our actions or experiences have any meaning…
it is only in the context of values, do our actions/experiences
have any meaning…that is why you should give a shit about values…
it gives your life some context, some meaning… for our actions and experiences
can only have context and meaning through values…
so you want your life to have meaning? give it the context of
value or values…to create context, you must have values to make
sense of actions or experiences…
Kropotkin