now one may claim, that by following that path of finding
out who we are, we are unleashing chaos and anarchy and devastation
all over society…but we are not… if we remember that we belong,
to a series of systems…we have small personal system like the family
and we have large impersonal systems like capitalism and the solar system…
we must remember that we must act in such a manner that allows the system
in question to survive… we cannot act in an irresponsible manner creating
anarchy and chaos for example, in our family life and still expect to
have a family…actions still have consequence… but we can find
our new path, our new goal and destination and still hold a place
in our current systems…the two idea’s, that of discovering who
we are and that of keeping the system/systems operating are not exclusive…
they can work together and work quite well together…
if we find out who we are and try to hide that, we become alienated
from ourselves, so we must become who we are and still hold our place
in the universe/systems together…I didn’t say it would be easy however…
as we change and discover who we are, truly are… we change and in that change
comes the new paradigm of who we are and the system must be adapted… (there is that word again)
to the new vision of who we are… and we must adapt to the new system… it is a continuous
yin and yang of change creating more change which creates more change…
and we must adapt to each change…both within ourselves and within
the system… we must become Zen and then after the mountains dance
and the sea becomes violent and the river overflows its banks… the
after Zen where the mountains are stable and the sea calm and river
returns to its banks… that is us… and once we settle down
to after Zen… we can calmly make the changes we need to make
to our systems to adapt to the new conditions we find ourselves in…
the process is ever changing and ever moving and we must learn
to harness and adapt to those changes…
so, what am I suggesting?
it is simple, instead of adapting new ism’s or ideologies
or myths or prejudices, we begin with the values that drive
our myths and ism’s and ideologies…
we begin with human values… values that are the upper
level of possibilities of being human…
we begin with values like love and peace and hope and
charity… the higher values… and we approach
our lives and our systems and our world with these
higher values instead of ism’s or ideologies or myths
or prejudices or superstitions…or values that promote
the lower understanding of what it means to be human…
instead of approaching the world with hate and violence
and capitalism and communism and other ism’s and ideologies
and myths and habits…
we approach the world/systems beginning with love and peace
hope and charity …among other higher values we can name…
we don’t attack the world with ism’s and myths, but with values
like justice and equality and love… the values that give our lives
meaning… that is the new paradigm… we begin with values
and those values represent the higher vision of what it means to be human…
we begin with understanding that we can act with instincts or we can
act with conscious choice and choose the higher values…
and then approach the many systems we live in with these higher values…
try to create change, if needed, with the higher values we have…
we don’t try to engage in transactional actions which means supporting
the status quo but we engage in transformational actions which transform
and change the current us, who we are, and our systems…
it is not enough to say, the system is corrupt and wrong…
we must also act like a doctor and prescribe a cure…
and the cure in our case is… an understanding of
what it means to be human and what are our possibilities as
human and then engage in those values that are our higher possibilities …
love and peace and hope and justice and equality and that is how we approach
the world… not with ism’s or habits or ideologies or prejudices or superstitions…
but we values…values we need to help us become a better system and
helps the many systems we are part of, becoming better…
we focus on values like justice and equality and peace and love
and not on ism’s, ideologies and hate and violence or prejudices or myths
or superstitions…
we free ourselves from our chains of ism’s and hate and violence and ideologies
myths…and we become who we are…with love and justice and peace…
am I understood?
does it even matter?
Kropotkin