Big Society, Small Human
16 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
Like an Earthly set of scales, we teeter side to side. What creates the unbalance?
You probably know someone who claims that Love is the answer. Who tells you not to judge others, for that is the problem. Who speaks of all that we don’t know and reminds you not to accept all you see.
It’s also possible that same person is one of the most judgemental and cliquey people you know.
You probably know someone who is content with life as it is right now. Who questions all new ideas, especially those that threaten their way of life. Someone who believes that progress is fine, as long as it’s Not In My Back Yard.
It’s also possible this person is a family member or someone else you usually quite respect.
And, there are myriad of other combinations and differences.
The key similar component seems to be, that someone doesn’t trust another person they don’t quite know the intentions of. I don’t think there are many people that can unhypocritically say they trust and love all, unconditionally. Perhaps someone might think they are that, in a moment of bliss… but a moment is temporary. Someone will piss that person off eventually.
I’m not sure I trust those who claim free love. I feel that there is a large percentage of those people that are foolish idealists, who will become very irritating, very quickly… especially with their narrow-minded understanding of the grand logistics that holds their world together.
I definitely don’t trust those who want to conserve their world and value. I feel that a large percentage of those folk are unwilling to see that the world is forever shifting sands. Transience. A “way of life” is a mere cultural moment that must give way to the physical realities around us.
But, I don’t want the world to be given over to the beast. Far too many people still believe in vengeful attacks on those that do them wrong. On violence as a means to their ends. On justice for the emotionally riled up, and not toward the objective truth.
We emotional beasts have a society too big for our mind to compute. So we judge, simplify, stereotype. We create genre after genre, categorisation after categorisation to better box imagination and emotion in to one place or another. Perhaps there is a grounding for some of these concepts? That is something we are yet to discover. We can do that with the physical world to an extent, through science. But the emotional world is just as mysterious as it always has been. Some people are better explainers than others, but I’m not sure there is any one way to prove one thing or another… other than playing on reptilian brain reactions. But, we’re human.
In all of this, I want to say one thing.
Accept the hypocrite that you are.
Accept all of your emotional spectra, it is all valid, it all comes from somewhere. Try and understand it and try not to let Mr./Mrs. Reptile take control.
Accept that sometimes, you may be stuck in a position for a while. Things take time, but all things change.
Do the best with what you can in a moment. And when you don’t do your best, because you most certainly won’t always… don’t worry! Move on, learn from it.
Don’t get stuck.
In Lak’ech Ala K’in
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