so what ought I do?
society has created myths, habits, prejudices, superstitions and biases
to tell us what we ought to do…… that is the point of society’s
myths of childhood… to point out what we ought to do…
we ought to be patriotic and fight for our country
and we ought to obey the law and we ought to
believe in god…(recall that insubordination is the greatest
crime in the bible and in the state and in business… as a union
person, I can only be fired for two and two things only,
on is stealing and the other… yep, insubordination… think about it)
and we ought to hold certain beliefs and act in certain ways… that
is part of the indoctrination of our youth… we must act, think, believe,
in certain things or we shall be tossed out of paradise…
(to my mind, Adam is the best example of what a real human being needs
to be, someone who rejects authority to become their own person, to
act upon their own reason, not on authority’s reason…
to become fully realized human beings, we must be like Adam
and reject authority and become our own person and yes, mistakes
will me made… that is the moral of that story… become a real functional
human being, but beware, it comes at a cost… are you willing to pay that cost
and for most people, they are not willing to pay the price to become fully human,
it is easier and less complicated to remain under the thumb of authorities)
so, what ought we do?
the example is really more of what ought we aspire to, instead of
being like Adam pre-fall, we should be like Adam after the fall and
try to realize our possibilities by attempting to become more,
not to listen to authorities who try to limit what is possible, but
to become fully human…Adam didn’t become fully human until
he ate the apple, the fruit of knowledge… and we should listen…
(I am saying Adam, but I could have easily said Eve also, as I am
a man, I tend to think in terms of a male, if I was female, I
could have and most likely would have said Eve… it is easily
understand regardless of who I had used, Adam or Eve…)
so, what ought I do?
Kropotkin