in thinking about this, I can see why IQ45 has been such a dismal
failure… he is about the unimportant matters of fame, wealth, power…
if he wasn’t born into wealth, he would be living in a trailer park in Nevada
and be part of the MAGA movement because it helps explain why
he would be such a failure… clearly it is the immigrants or the jews or
the brown people or women who have keep him living in poverty
and despair… but the begining of any understanding of our present
situation begins with an understanding that we are responsible for
ourselves…as Abe Lincoln once said, our wrinkles are caused
by our own efforts, our own actions… you cannot blame anyone
else for your current state or your current wrinkles…or any future ones…
fame, wealth, power are transitory, temporary things…
they have no value in our lives…and that has been the message
of the religious since before Jesus… but we don’t have to
make it a message of the religious… we can have values
and a point to our lives without any recourse to a religious
understanding of the world…we can be concerned with our soul
and still not be religious………
it is about finding the third way that should concern us…
somewhere between the materialistic and the religious
exists the third way of being concerned about our soul
and not be religious and not be concerned about
the materialistic world of fame, power, money…
the temporary, the transitory, the insignificant matters of our lives
that mean nothing because they are so transitory………
to find that which is permanent has been the goal of philosophers
and theologians and thinkers and scientist since the beginning of time…
but there is nothing that is permanent, that will last forever…
so we must take the next best course and take what is something
that has value even if it doesn’t last forever, if it isn’t permanent…
and that is an understanding of the Kantian/Kropotkin questions of
“What should I believe in?” and “What should I hope for?”
and “what am I to do?”………
the basic questions of human existence that are created at
the very moment of birth and because they are the basic questions,
they last as long as you breath… for at death, even these basic questions
no longer concern oneself…….for even these basic questions of existence
are, for each individual, transitory, momentary, transient… but these
questions apply to every single human being born, since the beginning of time
to the end of time…so these questions are both permanent and transitory…
and that is a good question… one that is full of contradictions…
and the truth can be found within a contradiction… between good and evil,
between right and wrong, between night and day…
Kropotkin