Morality,
right and wrong doesn’t have a chance anymore.
Sapiens. The
advance of sapiens through time has shown we have not only bartered away what
we have made, believed, or borrowed from nature but we have frittered away the
codes which we live by. We’ve been boiled down and rendered (in fat) into
whatever aggregation of moral codes, traditions, laws, rules, standards by whatever
dominant society in which we live, none of which are much more than a
generation old and none of which are so viable today that almost any advance of
technological, scientific inventions and experiments won’t further degrade
them, or at least, if degrade is too harsh a word, won’t further negatively change
what has lasted to this point, reverting any truths into obsolescence.
When
primitive people with limited technologies walked the earth, stone tools proved
durable and worth the tedious but hard work put into creating them. On the
other hand, iron and steel become rusty and useless in less than a lifetime.
Trump is an
example of this general rule. When democrats, who currently represent impeachment standards, cannot accept certain
behaviors in a president ( history notwithstanding) and have to decide if what
Trump does is constitutionally correct, are themselves hard pressed to differentiate
between what they and other politicians have, over time, made the “new normal”.
All politicians by sacrificing certain powers ascribed to them by the
constitution in order to “give” more power to the president of their political
party have now reaped what they’ve sown.
They have to all ask themselves, what presidential behaviors (or powers)
truly transcend rational and morally
acceptable behaviors, which even anybody's god would find objectionable, puts them in a divided state that the general public is left completely divided with
no center of gravity and a confused belief in a system we’ve been taught to always exonerate at the highest
levels of our magical world.
Laws are
remnants from an old moral code placed against an economic, scientific reality
of the present added to by what the powerful (politics, faith, and empire) have
decided ( in the loosest of terms) what will be the Future. In other words,
we’re all socialized to try and live a code of conduct that is not for everyone
because it is based on historical precedents that have been obsolete almost
from the time of their inception. Notions such as justice for all, equality for
all, equal opportunity for all have always ignored the very conditions upon
which reality exists. That is, justice, equality, opportunity are not real
things, merely ideals, and they are as widely varied as the differences between
capitalism and communism or buddhism and catholics which in themselves are all
merely ideals as well.
No ideal is
an island. Or a place. Or a job. Or a way of life. We can raise our children
like we were raised, thinking that has something to do with how pleased we may
be with our lives right now, and our children may have completely different
lives. Ideals are not formulas, enchantments, or rituals, though we treat them
as such.
That’s the
problem. Humans suckle their children on the tit of moral codes and standards
of conduct for a modern society which has been built on so called traditional
and mostly, amorphous, senseless codes of conduct, developed over more than a century of scientific,
technological, and historical advancement ( call it progress if you want), plus
a lack of differentiation between what’s
right and wrong, illusionary belief, and an erroneous concept about what
“reality” really is. Reality being the actual rules of behavior that govern us
through economic, nationalist, and world views, which we need to survive.
It’s ironic
to the nth degree that the amount of attention paid to such valueless
principals, such as the stock market, international affairs, gossip and rumors about
what other people are doing, has reached a pinnacle akin to worship mixed with
the usual fear one would expect from bowing down to a god.
When
sociologists tell us that for all practical purposes the gods have abandoned
us, have no interest in our petty lives, we doubt their premise but it’s better
not to put all your ducats in one basket so we have turned (bowed) to our
governments and the politicians as we would to priests. There are those who retain
power and position to influence those who insist they live by the simple rules of the
ten commandments and use prayer to ask for that which only god can give, which
is as close as any human gets to the art of magic, ritual, and outright lying. Still, we must retain our doubts about one or the other.
There are
those of us, in the majority, whatever that means, who try to live according to
rules left over from their parents or grandparents or even priest, rabbi,
grammar school education and who are actually trying to instill these same values
in their children or grandchildren but without acknowledgement of the reality
that this methodology of conveying such behavior modification has changed a
couple of times since even they were being socialized. The education system no
longer differentiates between things in the same way. Schools look like
prisons, as do housing projects, cities, all designed for accommodating more
and more what? Workers, children, seniors in the most oppressive manner
possible. We no longer live, we survive. We no longer trust in the knowledge
bestowed by acknowledging Nature, we have been inculcated to believe that the
problem is Nature.
For some
reason we believe that the problems created by man-made institutions, beliefs,
ideals, technology, and governance are better handled than the problems of
Nature. It isn’t actually so abstract, we have left Nature behind, the parts we
haven’t made a real effort to kill off outright.
California
is a good example. In the fifties, California progressives (progressives being
those who think about what the future will look like) bought into roads and
freeways for people to get around and initially, like all things, it seemed a
good idea. Considering that freeways take time to build and migration for that
elusive opportunity only takes a minute it wasn’t long, say the time it took
for a freeway to be completed, it was already obsolete. Now, once that happened
was there a review? Well, no, because while the one freeway and all its hopes
and dreams of a better life were becoming realized, commitments by city and
state governments were already buying into the ideal and had more freeways built, all of which had the same fate, obsolete before complete.
As this was
happening, California with its relatively mild weather, its “futuristic” model
of living the good life attracted all those who desired the american dream
which consisted of those “equalities”, those opportunities, so the engineers,
construction firms, the planners, put their heads together and simultaneously
along with the freeway people built new cities, new houses, new commercial
buildings in the hope that cities, houses, apartments, buildings would be
filled and the ultimate dream eventually have a freeway come, making everything as
good as it can get, in their eyes. Like build it, and they will drive to it.
The one
thing city and state planners didn’t foresee in their dream for creating the
“equalities” was the natural world. And here’s the gist, if not the dilemma, of
modern man’s plan, nature has always been left out of the planning. Not just
nature but space between things. Man has created a forest (some might say a
jungle) of human bondage.
Sapiens
tells us there are only three things which are responsible for the complete
amalgamation of human experience-money, faith, and not least, military might.
What is not mentioned is that trickery is a genetic code that somehow takes
these three things and seemingly transforms everything into caging the human
soul. Now if that isn’t an alien force I don’t know what is. Can we imagine
another being, like a god but rather than it being good or even evil, simply designed us to be a form of parasite with the powers of conscious manipulation?
I say this
because if you ask most people if they like what’s happening around them,
questions about infrastructure, clogged freeways, normal difficulties of living, which have nothing to do with “natural” but only those things manufactured by politicians, faith healers, and engineers? Everywhere around us, despite a hundred years of developing the intransigence
we’ve built our belief upon, none of these politicians, faith healers, military
chiefs, or planners of our future security and survival, no one is about
to change the direction we’re in.
It’s all
magic isn’t it. The magic gene is what unites us but it’s technology that
divides us. Our magic cannot influence what the “priests” manufacture for our
constant betrayals to nature any more than it keeps the wolves from our campsites. All of our consciousness has
been focused on eliminating fear (defined as that which we cannot control and
could harm us). We do have a strong sense of survival. That’s in us. Yet, we
are defenseless against our own ability to destroy each other and create that
very fear in others who eventually not only will defend themselves but will prepare to go
on the offensive when the opportunity arises.
Probably the
biggest question mark?
