after 8 straight days of work, I finally have a day off…
I have often wondered what this is all about? you, me, everything…
and then I think about human beings… we see ourselves in this game,
this thing we call life and what is it all about?
This morning, while doing laundry, I was thinking about baseball…
my favorite game… How the baseball greats were great only defined
by baseball… for example, a truly great hitter, still only has a 320. batter
average…320, think about this, that mean a hitter only hits the ball, gets on base,
a little bit more then 3 times for every ten at bats…so for every 1000 at bats,
a truly great hitter will hit the ball 320 times…think about it… a hitter
is a succesful hitter by hitting the ball only about a third of the time…
can you think of any other profession where one might be considered to be
a success with a 33% success rate? think about a doctor or a lawyer or a dentist
who only succeeded 33% of the time? that would be a really crappy doctor or lawyer
or dentist…or a politician being successful 33% of the time…
the goal of baseball is to become a better baseball player… either by becoming
a better hitter and has we have pointed out a truly successful player only
succeeds 33% of the time but the baseball player gets better fielding the ball,
and running the bases and getting walks and all the little things a player
can do to improve his game… to become better……
that is the goal of baseball, to become better and in becoming better,
you help the team become better… but first comes the part where
you must improve yourself…you must have some value to the team…
either you are a good hitter or a good pitcher or a good fielder or a good
base stealer… there are aspects of team play that needs individual
talents in order for the team to succeed… if you are talented in some
area, you can help the team to succeed…
now let us take this baseball analogy to life… I have a certain skill set,
I can make connections very quickly between two very different area’s…
I freely admit I cannot do math to save my life and my English skills are
ESL at best… so if I want to become more valuable, I need to improve my
individual skills and what does that do? it helps the team to win…
and what does winning look like in our current context?
as in any team, we must have goals to achieve… we must work at
our goals… and as with any goals, they must be clearly stated
and understood to be in the best interest of everyone playing the game…
and so, I point out that goals and objectives of liberals make
much more sense with our current understanding of what is means to be human
then the goals and objectives of conservatives…
it is not in the interest of the individual player to pad his stats
to improve his signing bonus to the detriment of the team…
we are the solo players who must understand that we are also
part of a team… and if we want to succeed, the team must succeed…
it is as simple as that… if the team fails, we fail and if we fail, the team fails……
conservatives don’t care about the team and if the team fails, as long
as the individual player can paid his stats and get paid more… that is the goal…
for the conservative only cares about getting paid more, not if the team
succeeds…………
but how big of a team do we actually have?
we have families and tribes and city/states and nations
and countries and races, be it white or black and religions,
be it Christian or Muslim or Hindu, we can divide human beings
into thousands of different classes depending on how you divide
human beings…… but I say, it doesn’t matter how you divide the human
race, it isn’t enough… for we also belong to a bigger team than just
the human race…we belong to the team of life… and we must work
to promote and protect life, be it snakes or tree’s or bee’s or even the earth
itself… and we must be prepared to make sacrifices to protect
the greatest team of all, that of life on planet earth… for we may
be the only life in the universe…and we have a duty and obligation
to protect that life even if it means we must sacrifice ourselves
to protect life… just as a teammate might sacrifice himself to
help a teammate or to help the team, we must become good teammates
to all life on planet earth… for that is what teammates do and it doesn’t
matter if the other teammates on earth know or understand what we do…
because we know…and that is all that matters, if we know what it takes
to be a good teammate to our fellow human beings and to life……
on a personal level, I must try to become a better human being which
in turns makes the human race a better race… it is our individual improvements
as human beings that allows our fellow teammates, our fellow human beings,
to belong to a better team… if we improve ourselves, we improve our team…
and that is the mission of being human…… we improve ourselves to improve
the team and that team includes life, all life on planet earth……
Kropotkin