and we return with the question of the last post,
we need a “reevaluation of values”, but where do we begin?
we know that values must contribute to the “bottom line”,
just like people, we must have values that help us make money/profits
or those values are worthless… if it doesn’t make money, it has no
value… that is the modern viewpoint……
and we know this age of the last 118 years to be a nihilistic one and why?
because values that don’t contribute to the bottom line are ignored
and crushed… values like love and charity and peace and justice
and honor have no place in modern society because those values don’t contribute
to the “bottom line” and the “bottom line” is the only value worth holding in
modern society…….
those values of however are the values that make life worth living…
it isn’t values like punctuality or obedence or efficiency that make life worth
living… it is values like love and hope and dignity and honesty and compassion
that make life worth living…the values that are destroyed in the pursuit
of money/profit…
we make our stand for a new world, not on the bottom line, but on
those values that have been rejected by the modern arbiter of values, modern
corporations…
we begin “reevaluation of values” with an understanding that the answer
to the questions of human existence, the question of the “human condition”
does not begin with the pursuit of money/profit…or even actions…
the “reevalauation of values” begins with the values themselves…
not with the actions but with the values……. we find out what values
are really our values, not the values we were indoctrinated with, but with
values we have come to truly understand is a part of us………
to really come to your values, you must first of all, have a “reevaluation of values”
from the value you were indoctrinated with…… and then and only then can you
begin to realize what values are really the values that represent you or you
are… remember Nietzsche, become who you are… and that means become
the values that are you… and how do we do that? we engage with
Socrates with his sentence, Know thyself………….
see all of these “random” sentences are really part of a larger, overall
understanding of who we are… we must begin our “reevaluation of values”
with knowing who we are, know thyself, and we can understand what values
are really who we are, become who you are………………
it is not the actions that count in our live… for our actions don’t give
our life meaning, it is our values that guide our actions and thus it is
the values that give our life meaning…… so to discover who we are, truly are,
we must begin with values……. and which values are really the values I want
to live my life by… not the values that we were indoctrinated as children,
but upon values I find for myself… and we take those values and apply
them to the actions in our life……… thus, we begin to take actions only
once we have discovered the values that bring meaning to our lives and
use those values to engage with the actions of our lives…………
we begin with values……… and live our life based on those values…
our actions, all of our actions, must follow from our values…
you want to make changes in your life? begin with the values you have…
you want to make changes in the government or society, begin with the values
you have and then, then discover what values does the government have or
the society have… and go from there…… the government or society to truly
represent you, must share your values… that is why we are so alienated from
the government or society……… because we don’t share the same values…
the government and society and big business, have different values then you do
and that difference is the basis of our alienation from our society or government or
big business…………
the battle over government that we see today is not the battle of what actions to take
but a battle over what values shall we have……………
so we have the Kantian question,
What can we know?
what should we do?
what can we hope for?
and now I add one more question to the Kantian questions,
what values should I/we have?
Kropotkin