now how do we tie this all together?
we have laws/rules… we have perceptions that are colored
by our emotions… we have our childhood indoctrinations
that create our perceptions of the universe/reality…
now each aspect, laws/rules… or our perceptions that are colored
by emotions, our childhood indoctrinations… they cannot be
explained by any aspect of the three… we must find an answer
by looking to some overall, overarching answer…
we are being that exist in time and space…
and we need to have some goals or a destination to
reach for… now why that is important is really the point
of this particular post…
as human beings, we do better when we have a goal or destination
to strive for… it gives us some meaning or purpose to our life…
but we have our indoctrinations from childhood that also exists
within us…so we tend to pick goals/destinations that work
with the indoctrinations of our childhood……. the conservative
goal of anger/greed/ hate is an indoctrination and so conservatives
tend to pick goals/destinations that incorporate these preconceived
emotions………. but in realty, what goal is really understood by
conservatives? they fight for such things, as greed and anger and hate…
so the goals/destination is about greed, anger and hate…
but greed and anger and hate, can only bring about greed
anger and hate…… it doesn’t have any goal behind
the anger or hate or greed… to be greedy is the goal,
to have hate is the goal, to be angry is the goal…….
the conservative has I have pointed out, is about
security… but the goal of being secure is as far as that
goal goes… in other words, being secure is the goal in itself…
but it doesn’t lead to any other goal past being secure…
but love and charity and hope lead us to goals past these
emotions… to love is to have something to love and
to strive to keep that love… Kant once wrote…
“the rules of happiness… something to do, someone to love
and something to hope for”
each of these goals reach beyond themselves…they are not self contained
goals/destinations like anger and greed and lust…….
and that is the difference between liberals and conservatives…
values for the liberals are different then the values for conservatives…
liberals values reach beyond themselves… a value of love
doesn’t just end with itself, it must have something to love…
and something to do, reaches beyond itself… and something to
hope for, reaches beyond itself… you need an object to
love and an object to hope for and an object for something to do…
to hate, to have anger, to have greed is enough for itself…
it is enough to hate and it is enough for greed and it is enough
to hold anger… for they exists for themselves…the objects of
the hate and anger and greed is irrelevant… it doesn’t matter
what you hate or have anger about or being greedy about…
when conservatives hate… they claim to hate because liberal hate
or because of liberals actions or thoughts… conservatives blame
others……. but that is to escape responsibility for their hate or their
anger or their greed……. … they don’t take responsibility for their
anger or hate or greed………and that is the point of existentialism…
to understand that we are responsible for our perceptions and we
are responsible for our emotions and we are responsible for our
actions and we are responsible for who we are… and if we unable
to adapt to ever changing conditions, that too is our responsibility…
we are responsible……. and we are responsible for our emotions
and we are responsible for our hate or anger or lust or greed
and we are responsible for our love and our hope and our
charity…….regardless of the indoctrinations we are given as
children because as we grow and age and become adults,
we need to change and adapt and become who we are…
if I am 59, I must change and adapt and become who I am
at 59… I cannot become my understanding of the universe
that I had at 29………I am older and I must become who I am
at 59…….and I am responsible for that……
we must overcome and overcoming means overcoming
our childhood indoctrinations… which means overcoming
our childhood perceptions and our childhood emotions…
we must adapt our understanding of the laws and rules
we live by because we are now older…our understanding
of the laws/rules is different because we are older…
our very aging process changes how we perceive the
universe/reality… and our understanding of the law/rules
changes too………
it is all connected…… you just have to follow the connections…
Kropotkin