as I have discussed, we as a system and existing within systems,
must have an equal equation, which means our system, be it personal
or be it some collective system like the economic system we have,
must be balanced………… if it isn’t balanced, it will eventually collapse
this idea of balance of equation must hold true for all systems…
all systems being political, economic, social, culturally…….
so for example, this massive income inequality that we have
is by its very term, unequal and that inequality is not keeping
a balance, is not holding the equation of our political and economic
system equal and thus our system is unbalanced and as with any system
that is unbalanced, unequal, it will collapse…….that is as certain
as the sun rising tomorrow morning… the only way extreme wealth
can maintain its balance is by massive poverty and massive poverty will lead
to massive discontentment which will lead to the system collapse…
see both the French revolution and the Russian revolution for a detailed
understanding of how this works………
our very democracy is damaged by this extreme wealth and poverty…
you can see this at work in “our” representatives in Washington, who
whore themselves to the highest bidder, usually right wing extremist who
are the very worst proponent of capitalism…the balance needed in
Washington is destroyed by the buying and selling of “our” representatives…
the way to balance in Washington and our entire political system is
with the removal of money as the primary value in our economic
and political system…the answer to the problem that exists
in Washington is not the answer given by IQ45 and others who are
anti-democratic but in more and a whole lot more democracy in
our both our political and economic systems…
the answer isn’t even in getting people to vote but
in giving people the controls of government… turn
the government over to the people,
“When in the course of human events, it become necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to
another………”
the answer to the question of democracy is more democracy, not less…….
the real history of democracy lies not behind us, but ahead of us…
when people finally take control of their own fates, their own
future and declare that the government is,
“of the people, for the people, by the people”
this is the revolution that is to come………… we the people must, must
take over the government and make it our own………or the government
because of the imbalance created by the money meant to corrupt
government will cause enough of an unbalance equation that the government
must, must collapse……….either we take control or have the government
collapse… those are our choices… there isn’t a third path…………
now for those who want a greater understanding of the balance,
the equation of systems can look into this with a look at a scientific
term which I am avoiding because I want to come at this, not from a
scientific standpoint but a human viewpoint……
the word to look up is Homeostasis: "
Which is the tendency toward a
relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements,
especially as maintained by physiological processes"
In other words, the equation must be kept or the system fails…
that is the reason the solar system still functions after 4 billion years,
it is an equation, a balance between the various interdependent
elements……. the sun and the planets maintain a balance which
keeps the system functioning… if a planet were to go rogue,
that would unbalance the system, the solar system and the
entire solar system would become so unbalance that it would
most likely collapse…………
but one might ask, does this have anything at all to do with
what you preached about for days on end, values?
I am glad you asked………
values are one means that a human being maintain balance……
values act like gravity does in a solar system…… values provide
the basis for us to maintain our balance… it provide our
system a means to provide balance……. values gives our
system which is an equation, the balance to maintain itself…….
an example of this is, the American system motto was for a long time,
“Truth, justice and the American way of life” but that hasn’t been true
for a long time, not since money has become the primary value of America…
the problem with money becoming a primary value is there is nothing beyond money…
it is the end, means and the only justification we have for our actions…….
there doesn’t need to be justice if justice can be bought……
justice is equality before the law… if justice can be bought,
then there is no equality, no equality means there is no justice…
if we judge base on money, then it isn’t about whether people are
good or honest or pure or full of love or of peace……. judgement is
about money and only money………………being judge on the only criteria
that matters, as in money, means we judge, our judgment is based on
only one standard and that standard is unbalanced, unequal…
so our judgements are unbalanced, unequal………
we fail to judge correctly…
and that failure to judge correctly means we are unbalanced, unequal…
and any system that is unbalanced, unequal is going to collapse…
but values helps us correct our unequal, unbalanced judgements…
values like love and peace and hope and justice help correct our
unbalanced and unequal judgements which is tainted by our fixation on
money………
we each of us, have unbalanced judgements which we call
biases, myths, habits, prejudices, superstitions………
and every single one of us has them……. the question is
not whether we can exists without them, no, the question becomes
how do we become who we are by a reevaluation of the indoctrinations
of our childhood…………. how do we discover the values that really and truly
are us………… personal balance, personal equality comes from discovering
the values that really represent who we are… and then we take those
values into the world………. we see the world through the lens of our values…
if our values are peaceful, loving values… that is how we see the world…
if our values are violent, hateful, mean and full of anger, that is how we see
the world…….
the question of our system being balanced, equal is really a question
of values… for values are the means in which we judge
the many systems we are and are part of…………… we judge our political
system, our economic system with the values that we have…….
if our value is money, we judge incorrectly the political system,
the economic system……. if we have values that give precedence to
our higher human being, then we can better understand what political
system and what economic system really better fits the human creature…
and that criteria is finding a balanced, equal system that benefits all over
a few…………. we must find values where the emphasis is on being balanced
and equal………… therein lies the path into the future…….
Kropotkin