The question of experience also includes the search for order.
If you think about it, life, human existence is a battle between
order and disorder. Disorder is the state of entropy that exists
in every single system that exists. Entropy is the loss of energy
in a system and every single system suffers from that particular
curse. So we have disorder in our various systems. We see this today
in the ongoing battle between disorder which is IQ45 and his forces
fighting for disorder and chaos and those on the left who are fighting
for order. Which frankly is not the way these things unfold, but
this is the modern world where nothing seems to go as planned.
We see this battle between order and disorder in every aspect of our life.
Politically, economically and socially. Those who fight for security today
are actually, by their actions, fighting for disorder. It is a strange state of affairs.
The key element of this is the use of energy to increase order or to state
it the other way, combat disorder. Every system is a balance of order
and disorder. Never remaining the same, every changing line or status
between order and disorder. At some point, a system in question will
have a higher level of order and at another point, it will have a lower
level of order (or higher disorder depending on how you say it)
The fight today is over the amount of order that exists within society.
Those who fight for security, are fighting for order (again usually)
and those fighting for freedom, are fighting for a lower level of order,
or greater disorder. I am fighting for liberty/freedom and so I don’t believe
in order as the ultimate objective of either the individual or society.
Some mix of order and disorder are required for us to successfully navigate
our lives.
The trick and it is some trick is to find the right line of order and disorder
in our lives, socially, politically and economically AND individually
and collectively. Too much order and we become static, unmoving, unchanging,
stagnant… to much freedom and we become unstable, variable, unpredictable,
uncertain, capricious………….
We must find the line between these two extremes.
But how? How do we navigate this difficult balancing act between
too much order and too much disorder?
The key, I think, is to emphasis the values within us. The values
of the higher angels in our human body. We must hold firm to
those values of love and justice and freedom or whatever higher
values you have chosen to maintain our own sense of self, are
own sense of who we are and what is our possibilities.
If we hold onto justice as our core value, then it doesn’t matter
what external actions are going on. The battle between order
and disorder are contained by our holding onto the value of
justice which becomes the, to use a word I hate, a lodestar,
in which the outer world doesn’t rock us as much because we
have our value or values to center us regardless of the events
happening outside of us………In the face of ever increasing
violence and hatred, we can hold our values as a centering piece
of sanity to keep us from losing hope or disinterest in the
world descending into chaos because of the loss of
the higher values in the followers of IQ45. They follow the
lower values of hatred and anger and greed and lust…
and it is condemning them to nihilism because those lower
values only lead to nihilism………
The lower values cannot lead one to order or optimism or
understanding. the lower values of anger and hate and greed
leads people to lawlessness, repudiation, terrorism and disorder.
The existential threat to America is this idea of MAGA
and its determination to exist in disorder and chaos
and anarchy and mob rule… the lower values of existence.
It is easy to destroy and bomb and revel in chaos like the
followers of IQ45 do… it is much, much harder
to build and create and generate or form such much needed
idea’s like beauty and honesty and freedom and justice because
those idea’s require energy to create, to create order one needs
energy……… to create disorder and chaos, one only need to
tear things down, as the follower’s of IQ45 love to do.
the followers of IQ45 are engaged in their pursuit of disorder
and chaos and lawlessness because it is easy to destroy then to
create and it is easier to hold negative values then to build/create
and to hold higher, positive values.
So the question becomes simple, are you engaged in the pursuit
of order as the resistant movement is or are you engaged in the pursuit
of disorder/chaos/anarchy as the followers of IQ45 are?
Order or disorder?
what do you fight for?
Kropotkin