THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE!
The most important thing is function, is what works.
It is clear to me that I am trapped in the ultimate, consummate irony of human existence, the Cassandra syndrome.
I have discovered why human beings cannot create functioning democracies, because they do not, cannot 'know.' They cannot apply their intelligence to a certain aspect of their lives, they cannot confront the motivation they are using to cause the other to act and the implications of using said motivation.
I refer to this as the Cassandra syndrome because the seer Cassandra of Greek mythology was cursed with the gift of being able to predict to future, and never have anyone take seriously and act on her prophesies. For example, she advised the Trojans, in this fable, to burn the wooden horse containing the Greeks, but they ignored her warnings and dragged the horse inside the walls precipitating the fall of the city of Troy.
I believe that this myth contains more than a kernel of truth. It describes the fate of any human being who actually practices the discipline of truth.
These pathetic, doomed and foredoomed beings, and I own to be one of them, must eventually achieve contact with social reality, the same contact scientists have with the physical reality, and therefore become capable of formulating workable solutions to social problems, in the same way that scientists in the physical universe find solutions in that milieu - but these solutions never gain popular support and credence and are therefore never widely applied, because they can never be adopted by the majority of the human race - who continue to be intellectually lamed.
Let me provide a pertinent, contemporary example of this approach to existence.
I read somewhere today, March 4th, that a poll conducted by CBS suggested that the approval rating of President Bush has hit an all time low of thirty four per cent.
I knew that President Bush was the most incompetent and woefully immoral modern President two years into his first term. I have been suggesting for more than a year that he must be impeached to save America's soul.
And time is running out. Time is running out in Iraq, as that nation teeters on the brink of civil war, a future I predicted a long, long time ago.
Time is running out on the issue of global warming, and on a lot of other urgent issues, that have grave, potentially momentous impacts on human progress, even on the survival of the human race.
The question is, when will human beings become aware of the dangers that they face, in time to take constructive meaningful remedial action, or, will we continue to blindly grope our way forward, bumbling and stumbling from catastrophe to catastrophe?
That time will come as more and more human beings realize that the real problem is not President Bush, whose term must come to an end.
It is not global warming, because we can reduce the emissions from the utilization of fossil fuels that produces this phenomenon.
All these phenomena are symptoms of an underlying mental malaise, to which we have been conditioned since the beginning of time.
The real problem is our perspective, the way in which we have been conditioned to process facts.
The real problem is that the world has irrevocably changed but most of us are unaware of this inescapable fact and of the vast potential for destruction implicit in this development.
The concept ‘might is right’ shaped over many millennia a perspective, a world view, encapsulated in the aphorism 'beliefs are opportune, they conceal interests.' This has become an anachronism, a dangerously destructive anachronism, in the social reality that exists today.
The creation of weapons of mass destruction has precipitated a situation in which we must, in which at least a bare majority of human beings must, become able to process facts into create ideas that will support function.
For example, most Democrats were always against President Bush, because his election would mean that their Party would not retain control of the 'pork barrel,' as most Republicans supported him because he was viewed as their best means of gaining and sustaining their control of the 'pork barrel.' The view of the majority of American of the President was skewed and tainted by their personal, individual interests. Their perception had little to do with the facts, with the sere reality of dysfunction the Bush Administration has precipitated.
Nor, could the bare facts, however dire a situation these portend, galvanize them to action.
The complete, total incompetence and palpable incapacity of this Administration is obscured by personal interests.
The same mechanism shapes public opinion with regards to evidence as overwhelming and inescapable as the incredible sloth and inactivity that gripped the President as we view him hearing reports from trusted aides, some of them whom he himself appointed, of the potential, very disastrous impact of Hurricane Katrina.
The same mechanism immobilizes and divides Americans and prevents them for seeing that President Bush must be impeached to save this nation’s soul.
How long will our interests combine with the 'spin' to immobilize us and prevent us from taking action to create a prosperous, peaceful future for our race?
How long before we realize that the problem is not external, but internal, that we must plumb the depths of inner space and hone our world view to create a perspective that can from the facts formulate ideas adequate to the existing reality?
How long before we realize, as a race, that only practice of the discipline of truth can make us free?
It is clear to me that I am trapped in the ultimate, consummate irony of human existence, the Cassandra syndrome.
I have discovered why human beings cannot create functioning democracies, because they do not, cannot 'know.' They cannot apply their intelligence to a certain aspect of their lives, they cannot confront the motivation they are using to cause the other to act and the implications of using said motivation.
I refer to this as the Cassandra syndrome because the seer Cassandra of Greek mythology was cursed with the gift of being able to predict to future, and never have anyone take seriously and act on her prophesies. For example, she advised the Trojans, in this fable, to burn the wooden horse containing the Greeks, but they ignored her warnings and dragged the horse inside the walls precipitating the fall of the city of Troy.
I believe that this myth contains more than a kernel of truth. It describes the fate of any human being who actually practices the discipline of truth.
These pathetic, doomed and foredoomed beings, and I own to be one of them, must eventually achieve contact with social reality, the same contact scientists have with the physical reality, and therefore become capable of formulating workable solutions to social problems, in the same way that scientists in the physical universe find solutions in that milieu - but these solutions never gain popular support and credence and are therefore never widely applied, because they can never be adopted by the majority of the human race - who continue to be intellectually lamed.
Let me provide a pertinent, contemporary example of this approach to existence.
I read somewhere today, March 4th, that a poll conducted by CBS suggested that the approval rating of President Bush has hit an all time low of thirty four per cent.
I knew that President Bush was the most incompetent and woefully immoral modern President two years into his first term. I have been suggesting for more than a year that he must be impeached to save America's soul.
And time is running out. Time is running out in Iraq, as that nation teeters on the brink of civil war, a future I predicted a long, long time ago.
Time is running out on the issue of global warming, and on a lot of other urgent issues, that have grave, potentially momentous impacts on human progress, even on the survival of the human race.
The question is, when will human beings become aware of the dangers that they face, in time to take constructive meaningful remedial action, or, will we continue to blindly grope our way forward, bumbling and stumbling from catastrophe to catastrophe?
That time will come as more and more human beings realize that the real problem is not President Bush, whose term must come to an end.
It is not global warming, because we can reduce the emissions from the utilization of fossil fuels that produces this phenomenon.
All these phenomena are symptoms of an underlying mental malaise, to which we have been conditioned since the beginning of time.
The real problem is our perspective, the way in which we have been conditioned to process facts.
The real problem is that the world has irrevocably changed but most of us are unaware of this inescapable fact and of the vast potential for destruction implicit in this development.
The concept ‘might is right’ shaped over many millennia a perspective, a world view, encapsulated in the aphorism 'beliefs are opportune, they conceal interests.' This has become an anachronism, a dangerously destructive anachronism, in the social reality that exists today.
The creation of weapons of mass destruction has precipitated a situation in which we must, in which at least a bare majority of human beings must, become able to process facts into create ideas that will support function.
For example, most Democrats were always against President Bush, because his election would mean that their Party would not retain control of the 'pork barrel,' as most Republicans supported him because he was viewed as their best means of gaining and sustaining their control of the 'pork barrel.' The view of the majority of American of the President was skewed and tainted by their personal, individual interests. Their perception had little to do with the facts, with the sere reality of dysfunction the Bush Administration has precipitated.
Nor, could the bare facts, however dire a situation these portend, galvanize them to action.
The complete, total incompetence and palpable incapacity of this Administration is obscured by personal interests.
The same mechanism shapes public opinion with regards to evidence as overwhelming and inescapable as the incredible sloth and inactivity that gripped the President as we view him hearing reports from trusted aides, some of them whom he himself appointed, of the potential, very disastrous impact of Hurricane Katrina.
The same mechanism immobilizes and divides Americans and prevents them for seeing that President Bush must be impeached to save this nation’s soul.
How long will our interests combine with the 'spin' to immobilize us and prevent us from taking action to create a prosperous, peaceful future for our race?
How long before we realize that the problem is not external, but internal, that we must plumb the depths of inner space and hone our world view to create a perspective that can from the facts formulate ideas adequate to the existing reality?
How long before we realize, as a race, that only practice of the discipline of truth can make us free?
posted by voiceofpeace at 11:05 AM
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