let us try this…
can we measure the amount of energy in a system like
a sporting event?
I have both played sports and have watch sports my entire life…
and I can personally attest to the fact that in sports, as in other areas of life,
energy can play a crucial role…have you watched an exciting sporting event?
I have watch plenty of say, basketball games, my local team is the Golden State
Warriors… they have been in the last 5 finals…over 100 plus playoff games…
and you can feel the excitement going on in the game, within the arena,
or in the bar if you are watching the game in a bar…that excitement is
a physical thing… you can feel it…now, one might say, nonsense Kropotkin,
you can’t measure the amount of excitement within an bar or an arena…
but you can feel it… it is a physical presence…but Kropotkin,
you can’t measure it you can’t weigh it, you can’t see how tall it is
nor can you tell much about how much energy is produce within
a game or in a bar… NO, no, you can’t and yet, it still exists…
don’t fall into the trap that insist that something isn’t real if
it cannot be measured or weigh or timed… in some fashion…
if it is not scientific, it doesn’t exist… that is simply not true…
because if that were true, then love, hope, justice, charity,
as well as the negative values of hate or anger or lust or greed
would exist either………
a great deal of philosophy involves things that cannot be weigh or measure
or timed…how can you weigh or time, beauty or virtue?
it still exist even if you can’t measure it in some fashion…
don’t fall for the trap thinking if it isn’t scientific, it isn’t real…
business is driven by the measurement of things… I am timed for
how long I spend with each customer and my money drawer is checked every night
to see how short I am in and people watch me on camera to see if I am standing in
the right place or if am doing something I shouldn’t be, like talking to my fellow
employee’s… that is frowned upon and actively discouraged…… I am only suppose
to be working and nothing else…and in the midst of all this, where are the values?
for example, how does love fit into this? or how does any value fit into
this scientific understanding of work…
for a great deal of business comes from scientific research…
look up Fredrick Winslow Taylor…to see the influence of science into
business…
but business has no interest in anything other then money/profits…
and it uses science to better increase money/profits…
the ultimate tool of business is the clock…time is money is a
business saying…I am timed in every aspect of my job…
from my breaks to my lunch to how long I spend with a customer…
that is science… but I am more then just science, I am a human being…
and what does being a human being have to do with being timed?
and so we return to energy… I am energy, for I am matter…
and matter and energy is interchangeable……
and the energy I use at work is used to gain profits/money…
and it isn’t used for anything else besides the expressed goal
of making money/profits…….
now ask yourself, is making money/profits really the best use
of what energy I have?
it depends upon the goal, now doesn’t it…
if I spend my energy on making profits/money for a company, then
I don’t have any energy to make myself a better person, I don’t have
any energy to create a better society, I don’t have any energy to
do anything other then the creation of money/profits……
we cannot allow the scientific understanding of the world outweigh
any other use of the world… in other words, there is more being human
then to make money/profits…and if it isn’t validated by science, then
it has no use…that idea must be removed……
in modern day society, if it isn’t measure, weighed, timed, it has no value…
we cannot waste time engaged in the pursuit of beauty or truth or justice or
hope because those things cannot be measured… that is what is the matter with
modern day society, if it cannot be measure in some fashion, it has no value…
but how does one measure love?
you can’t… but according to the modern world, love has no value
because it can’t be timed or weighed or measured…
and what does science do? it weighs, measures, times, put things
on a scale… so, we are a scientific world………
a Marxist/capitalistic world…materialistic systems that depends upon
some form of measurements, weights, times…….
so once again, how does one measure the amount of energy
that an exciting game of basketball creates in a bar or in person?
it can’t be weighed or timed or measured… so it is unimportant…
but I submit, it is the most important thing we do… what we spend our
energy on is the most important thing we do as human beings…
and I suggest that we should spend it on things that cannot be measured,
weighed, times… things like love, peace, justice, charity…
the path to becoming human isn’t through measurements or timed events,
but in the path, the road itself and that cannot be measured…
Kropotkin