conservatives stand on the side of the new age, the modern age, in
that they support the industrial revolution and its aftermath…
what the industrial revolution did was sever the human
connection to values…
what does the values of love and justice/equality and hope
and faith and honesty have to do with the new values of
the machine, the industrial revolution?
the new values are to be on time, don’t talk back,
profits at all cost (even human beings are expendable in the name
of profits) the infallibility of the corporation (it can never be wrong)
you have a clear and defined hierarchy flowing from top to bottom
(which is the modern substitute for the medieval church)
and what does this have to do with your previous posts about
energy/matter? why the real question becomes, if we are creatures
that exchanged energy/matter, this exchange is the entire
function of the human creature, then what should we be
expending our energy/matter upon? should we really be expending it
upon the new masters built upon the timeclock and the machine?
for if there is one machine that sums up the modern age,
it is the timeclock……….
the industrial revolution replaced the old values, regardless of their
intentions and purpose, with new values… values that raise
machines above humans and their values…………
how shall we expend our energy/matter?
this is the next question…
what can we know?
what should we do?
what can we hope for?
what should our values be?
on what shall we expend our energy/matter on?
human beings have a finite amount of energy/matter to expend
and what shall we expend that energy upon?
until we can connect with the energy/matter that is everywhere around
us, almost as a force that exists around us… even the very air we breath
can be energy, for it is part of the cycle of the exchange of energy/matter
that we too are a part of……
for anything you look at, it is part of the overall energy/matter cycle
of the universe… look at the walls surrounding you, those too are part
of the energy/matter cycle… for all matter and energy in the universe
has the same right of existence that you, the walls, the tree’s,
the oven and the floors you walk on, have… because they are,
and they exists as part of the universal reason of existence…
for they are composed of atoms, and atoms can be exchanged,
from energy to matter and back again, but atoms cannot be destroyed…
they exist as they have always existed since the beginning of time and
shall continue to exists long after the earth has turned into dust……
that is the secret of the universe…… the continuity of the universe
lies in all those atomic and sub-atomic parts which make up
all the energy and matter in the universes and they can never be
destroyed…… just exchanged from energy to matter and back again…
and what values can we derived from all that energy and matter?
they are valueless and that is the quiet secret the universe holds from us…
it has no values… just the exchange of energy to matter and matter to energy…
there are no values there…
but we humans can create values…and as far as we know in the universe,
as far as we know, we are the only existing energy/matter that exists
in the universe that creates values……… so should we create
values of the machine as the modern age has done or, or should
we create values of the living, breathing energy/matter exchanging
beings that we are………
that is the beauty of being human……… we can create values………
we have something no other collection of energy/matter atoms can
do………. we can create values and… and we can continue those
values over time……………. love is something that has existed
since the beginning of time………… it is something outside of
the exchange of energy/matter that everything else in the universe is…
it is rather exciting to know that we humans can do something that
no other collection of energy/matter atoms can do, we can create
values………… and if we are the only collection of atoms that can create
values… I say let us create values that are as extraordinary as humans
seem to be and that is values that celebrate the possibilities of being
human by having values of love and hope and charity and justice
and all those values that are positive and upbeat………….
why be the only collection of energy/matter that can create values
and have those values be the negative values of our human nature…
values like hate and anger and greed and lust and vice and intolerance…….
we should promote the values that stabilize our systems and who we are
with values like the higher values of our human existence………………
why should we hate other collections of energy/matter atoms?
they are a temporary collection of energy/matter atoms……
and soon to be exchanged into another temporary collection
of energy/matter atoms and then another and then another…
we, everything in the universe is simply a collection of temporary
bits of energy/matter atoms, that has for a short time, taken
form………… and then we become atoms again and soon, we become
part of another collection of temporary bits of energy/matter atoms…
and that is the universe……… simply a never ending series of
of temporary collection bits of energy/matter that becomes
something and then shortly thereafter changes again…
today, I am Kropotkin and soon, soon, parts of my collection
of atoms will combine to form something else, maybe a dollhouse
or a chair or the wind or heat or a bear……. and my collection of atoms
will go on forming new collection of energy/matter items until the
end of the universe……… I am immortal as you are immortal…
we will exists as parts of energy/matter bits until the universe ends
so under this immortality… why should we engage with values
like hate and anger and greed and lust when we are something
that is really outside of time?
Kropotkin