We have a universe within us, cities of organisms inside the countries of our organs functioning with help of computers programmed by our dna made up of tiny particles exchanging the most basic information with the most complex, confusing and complicated mathematics and reasoning involved, baffling even the most brilliant minds, and ultimately at the smallest level, exist on a surprisingly shallow almost virtual level, imagined up by the laws of the universe. At the same time we are able to manipulate that which is around us, which follows the same description I have applied to us. This proves our existence as we can think, react, interact, and change our environment. We feel big, mighty, powerful that we have such amazing powers of comprehension, and yet we often do not even know or understand our place in this world. Many want to be individuals, stand out from the crowd, be a new person separate from every other person out there, yet everything hes learned has been passed on from others, more often than realized under the same mindset he is under. Hir creativity makes the difference, forms the individuality, yet it does not become an exception to previously existing rules, though it may discover a new one. We are not limitless, boundless, endless creatures with incomprehensible capacity, yet we all have out place, an impact, an effect, and we can do many things, many powerful thing, when done so in tandem with others rather than in conflict as many are used to today. We can not make a rose, yet we can plant a seed and watch it grow. We can not create a cell from scratch, at least not yet, however we can do something more amazing, that is, to create new life in reproduction. Not only new life, but new conscious, thinking, feeling, present, observant, utterly powerless, and yet potentially unlimited. We can not create a new sun in all its amazing power, glorious splendor, and yet woefully dangerous potential. Yet we can take this huge source of power and power our world with it. We know how and yet we still can not even compare to the efficiency of plants which have had eons to develop this ability. We can do so much which we find to be so magnificent and yet, on the grand scheme, it feels so little. I find though that I have no reason to fear this, be confused, befuddled, or made apathetic towards life. We can do so little on the grand scheme, yet here on our microcosmic earth, our little blimp of an existence, I say again that we can do so much. I say this though while remembering that it must be done in tandem with the efforts of others. A single electron, neutron, or proton does not make up an atom, but together they create this magnificent little piece of material, solid in the macro, yet almost completely empty. Its so little, seems so insignificant, yet understanding simply its mode of creation could provide us with virtually infinite energy. Yet that does not create the molecule, let alone the universe itself. It takes many millions, billions, trillions, trillions of trillions just to create the bed we lay on every day, to create the bodies we occupy every second. In that same way it takes millions if not billions of us in order to create something magnificent, albeit imperfect at its core, though what really in this universe, this tangible universe, has ever been known to be that mythical perfect we so long for yet despise all at once. You are not perfect, you are not big, you are not powerful. You are a part of something big. You are a part of something powerful. You are a part of something magnificent, though it is not nor ever will it be perfect. You are the one and the only you that can be you, think as you, and fulfill your purpose, the only one who can truly define then act upon your purpose, the only one who can decide that, or more realistically delude yourself into thinking you do not have a purpose. The sun is powerful but its power comes from creating some of the smallest, most simple, and often abundant and taken for granted particles in existence. You do not think about processing the oxygen in your lungs and diffusing it throughout your blood, you just do it. You forget that oxygen even exists, few even know it does, and yet it is what keeps you alive. You dont see it, yet it is everywhere. In that same way The executives of Walmart, the Koch brothers, go on list your own obscenely rich person that you can (in your mind, i dont need any conspiracies discussed on this), they too do not see the people working so frivolously in their stores and factories. They are invisible to them by virtually every means, though some of their profits must go to those employees, albeit too little at times, and yet their entire wealth revolves around their simple existence. Their existence makes everything from the paper on their desk, to the desk the paper is laying on, to the ipad that has essentially replaced all that paper available to them, without even seeing once the person that made it for them. In that same way your body uses some of its energy to process that oxygen throughout your body in order to live, keep itself maintained, gain energy. Now the analogy is flawed because most of these wealthy do not put money/energy back into maintenance of the whole. Ignore this in the effect that it may spark your desire to rattle on about conspiracy, but do not ignore the core issue at hand here. our body doesnt function perfectly, it is not eternal, it does not use energy as efficiently as is possible. Its full of glitches, and I mean this literally. In the same way, nothing we create will every be glitch free. However, the more parts working in a consorted effort to achieve this as best as possible, the closer we get. So tell me, why do we have groups of a few million here and there; well we have thousands of these groups, all with conflicting interests. They all want to better society and yet they all differ on their opinions. Some might despise the idea that one is wrong or another is wrong, one might welcome that idea as long as it isnt them its being focused on. Lets throw this aversion to fallacy out the window. This is not a debate about who is right or who is wrong. Its about what is right and what is wrong. We can not assume our entire idea is correct if we want to speak on level grounds, rational grounds, and very importantly open grounds. We can not point fingers at each other, cherry pick the fallacies without looking at the good, and even more so, we should NEVER look at the good and ignore the bad. We must work with each other, think rationally, keep a mind open to all criticism, address it, change it, record it, and move one. This is how we create history, this is how we evolve, and this is how we become better as a species, society, country, and a person. This requires a medium to do this through. On the atomic level, within the macrocosm, and everything in between, there are rules that put inanimate objects into order, connecting them, and arranging them properly. In this same way we must find the force, presence, energy that connects us. I find it funny we want to call it so many names and think of it as something intangible yet we already have it, you have it, I have it and its sitting right in front of me, as well as within me, as Im writing this. We have the internet and our intellect both creative and logical. The consciousness of the inanimate and that of the animate combined. We have this amazing power available to us and yet we use it for such trivial things like finding out the newest trends with the Kardashians. We can do so much good and yet we use it so often to poke fun, express vulgarity, flaunt our opinions imagining they are perfect in some intangible way until reality comes in with a swift hand to the left cheek, then the right, and keeps going till were slapped into realizing our opinion is virtually worthless until it is shared, debated, edited and corrected. Even then it is just as worthless as it was before until it is debated again. The existence of something is not its worth, but what it can become. A diamond is intrinsically worthless and surprisingly not very rare at all, in fact gold should be worth far more. The diamond however shines more brightly once cut and polished. So now here we are, the earth the rock in which embedded are many rough unpolished diamonds. We have all the tools we need, the internet, ourselves, the resources provided so amazingly well by natural process, to extract, cut, polish and make to shine these diamonds in the rough. These diamonds in the sand of a shameful society, on of taking without returning. Is it really so hard to see what we must do? If you still can not see this yet, look at it this way. in a forest every animal, every plant, every mineral plays its part. Whenever something adapts, everything adapts with it over time. This whole process is thrown into chaos when something that has developed outside this paradigm, this ecosystem is introduced. An invasive species almost always leads to either rampant destruction or rampant adaptation. So now, we have the world as our ecosystem. We have every part of nature, including us, doing its part, and only one invasive virus exists. That is human arrogance, ignorance, and shameful blissfulness about it. We have the ability to think, yet we forsake this for the ability to ignore. The ability to feel and yet instead we hide this emotion or even force it out of our lives. We have the ability to be compassionate and yet as far as we know, from the dawn of man, we have used our intellect to evolve ourselves while destroying and devolving everything around us. Now that you can see the problem, I hope, you can begin to see the solution. It is not something that must happen rapidly, rampantly, swiftly in the night, but it must and will happen over time, provided the effort is put into doing so. We must either become the rampant destruction, and ultimately destroy the very things which allow our existence, or we must adapt. We must either die by the tapeworm that is our arrogance and greed or we must evolve to a point where we can forget such things, so childish in nature. We can continue on a path where all energy goes to a small part of the whole or we can evolve and become a society that works in synchronization, in unity, and as one to spread that wealth, that energy, that lifeblood of society so that all can feel the glories of life and enjoy it, truly to its fullest. This is not communism were talking about. The human body does not allocate all energy equally to all parts. The brain uses 20%, sometimes more, sometimes less, but it is an average. However it does not use 99% or more leaving the rest to wither and die, it uses what is needed, as does every other part, in accordance to its importance. So its time that we stop allowing ourselves to be cheated, allow more than 99% of our wealth to go to the hands of a few thousand, a few hundred. Its time that we stop taking the energy we have and putting it into petty useless and meaningless things, its time we stop separating ourselves from the whole with this idea of individuality that, while great, gives some the idea that they can do and be whatever they want. We can not have the heart trying to perform the function of the liver. We also need to end this idea that no matter where you are, your part is still there. The poor have the same part to play in society that a non-functioning liver has to our bodies. We need that liver to survive, but its potential is being used at its lowest quantity and quality possible. The dysfunction indicates something is wrong, and thus needs fixing. At times there is a cure, at times you can consider it dead. In the same way our poor act as an indicator of the problem, we need them, they have potential, and while on the bottom rung, we often forget that it is the rich that feeds off of them, like the brain functions best because toxins are filtered out by the liver. So we must not simply remove and forget, and we can not simply ignore saying its the liver were stuck with. Medically that would sound ridiculous. So why do we accept this in our society when its not just one, but millions being affected every day. Lets start now, or soon, or whenever you finally find the strength and opportunity to do so, but eventually START evolving. No you do not need to evolve your physical body, nor your dna, but your mind and your heart. We must all do this, with rationality, logic, and acceptance of our feelings and emotions, the very things that make us who we are. It does not have to be overnight, but it must be. Not because I dictate it, and not because it sounds good, but because it is our survival on the line, socially, economically, ecologically, and in our basic physicality. So have fun finding out all the new fashion trends, celebrity gossip, and fluff news stories which blind you from the beautiful reality around you that is slowly yet ever more rapidly shrinking away. While you do that our society plunges back into the dark ages and life on this planet becomes ever closer to destruction by our hands. Not mine, not yours, not his nor hers. Ours. You can choose to stand and be active in the world to make your change or you can simply choose to apply it in your daily life, both are powerful in their own way, at least on our level, just remember to do so, to keep evolving, growing, and never staying ethically, morally, or spiritually/mentally stagnant. In that stagnation you and the world will surely become rotten and filthy, toxic even. It is in movement, exchange, change, adaptation, it is in these things that the world becomes bigger, better, more brilliant and vibrant. Be good to yourself, be good to others, do not look down on others but bring them eye to eye with you. Do not request your slave to fetch his own ladder to be at eye level with you, free that slave and fetch the ladder yourself. Be one of outstanding character, but dont be defined. Be one who serves his function, but dont feel lesser about being put within a specific role. And most importantly, remember one thing: What you do matters. We are large to the atom, but small to the stars. But in a universe which for all we know may be the fetus or larvae of some being far greater than our knowledge, even the stars would seem to pop in and out of existence within immeasurable moments, and we would cease to exist. The world is fractal. The world is finite. We are the variation. Be the variation. Be the finite fractal existence that you are. That which exists for a short time, is limited to a small scale, is capable of only so much, yet the creativity of which can become whatever it wishes, infinitely, if only you work to make it happen, and do so with others. In short, the world needs a change, a change for the better, toward equality, acceptance, education, and compassion. It needs to evolve, and it needs a catalyst. You be that catalyst and help others to be as well. Evolve that which is currently you.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:08:08 +0000
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