being and becoming…
we are either being or we are becoming……
I am… or I am becoming…
the path of the human race has been the path of becoming…
from animal, like dogs, cats, cows, birds… to becoming animal/human…
where we still hold instinctual needs like sex and anger and hate…
but we can, at times, put those instincts on hold and do what we
want… sometimes, I want to beat the crap out of the customers who
are idiots in my line… if I followed my instincts, I would…
but I rise above my instincts and… with a great deal of effort,
I don’t act upon my instinct…In doing so, I am human and not
animal/human… for animal/human must still act upon their instincts…
to be human means to rise above instincts… we use other means to
judge our actions… logic, rational thought, just plain fear…
I don’t beat the crap out of customers because I don’t want to
explain to my wife why I was fired… that fear outweighs any other fear…
the instinct of fight or flight is an animal instinct… if we react to some action
without recourse to fight or flight, we are being human… we have risen above
just plain animal instincts…
but we must continue the road to becoming human… we have risen above
being just an animal to being animal/human and we must continue the road
to becoming human, fully human…
that means we rise above our instincts… we make rational choices as to
whether we have sex or if we eat a meal or if we fight or flight…….
we pause and think… instead of reacting instinctually…
and if we think, we quickly realize that wasting our energy on
such a meaningless concept of money/profits is dumb…
I have spent my entire adult life working, 43 years and counting…
I have absolutely nothing to show for it outside of a bad back
and bad hips and knees that don’t work anymore……
working is a waste of my time and is a waste of your time…
there is nothing to be accomplished by working…
but Kropotkin, it puts food on your table… I can think of a half dozen
of different ways to put food on my table that doesn’t demand that I
destroy my health for it…
we are letting the routine, the habit of working, the superstition of working
determine our course of actions… we actually haven’t tried to move beyond
work as a means of putting food on our table… we can begin by rejecting
materialism, meaning both capitalism and communism as THE political or
economic system that we can choose from… we have purposely limited our
choices to just capitalism or communism…we haven’t tried to expand
our choices beyond capitalism or communism……
we are just being and not becoming……
to return to an earlier concept…
entropy… as noted before…if we leave a room, say the
living room alone for 2 weeks, the room will slid toward
an increased entropy state… it will become dirtier…we must use
energy to maintain a state of clean in any room we live in…
energy is needed to keep entropy at bay… we cannot defeat entropy…
we can hold it off, but we cannot defeat it…
eventually, the entire universe will fall into a complete state of entropy…
the amount of energy will remain the same, but the energy will become
so dispersed that it no longer can hold systems in place…….
recall that the human body is a system held together by energy…
if enough energy is dispersed away from the body, it will decompose…
we die… energy is holding the universe together… if the energy is
dispersed, then the universe itself will no longer function…
the human question is not a question of motion as in science, but the
human question is a question of energy…
“Upon what should I spend my energy on?”
that Kantian/Kropotkin question now gains much more
urgency if we correctly understand the role of energy in
human existence…
to maintain order in the universe, we must use a great deal of energy…
so, how does that effect the political state of affairs?
we now see the damage that IQ45 has done to the energy
state of America… and every system is about energy…
he has taken energy away from maintaining our political system into
such useless matters as hate, fear, anger, greed, lust…
we cannot raise enough energy to maintain our political system if
that energy is wasted upon such nonessential matters as hate, violence,
anger, lust, fear……
that is the danger of IQ45… he waste our energy away from the matters that
should mean something to us…
if we hate, we cannot build, for hate cannot build…
if we have anger, we cannot build, for anger cannot build
if we fear, we cannot build, for fear cannot build…
if we love, we can build, for love build energy
if we hope, we can build, for hope builds energy
I have been angry and I have been in love and I can attest to
the fact that love is an increase in energy… hate and anger decrease energy
in people…and the only way we can build is by working with positive values
such as love and peace and justice and hope…
what increases energy? that is what we must be working for…
But Kropotkin, we cannot measure love or hope?
how can we build something that we cannot measure?
and that is the scientific part of our modern society……
the materialistic aspect of modern society……
it doesn’t count if it can’t be counted, or measured or weighed or timed…
you can’t count or weigh or measure love…
but the path, the road to becoming human follows love…
you can’t measure any part of what I say, so it becomes unimportant…
and that is the modern age in a nutshell…
next is becoming…
Kropotkin