The Frontier of Wisdom

Wisdom is defined in different ways by different people. To me wisdom, or to be wise, would have to mean having your intellect and your heart working at equal capacity. If you are a creature of pure heart you can do great things but not have the ability to do them with farsightedness, if you are a creature of pure mind you have the capacity to be cold and callous. Mind without heart is not wisdom. The heart working in collaboration with the head is the perfect balance and can help you to be a leader amongst humankind. Never would the wise allow themselves to be reactive to their own technology. Technology which changes the individual or collective soul for the worse must be reworked or scrapped in favor of technology which allows for the representation of the individual and collective goodness, which is absolutely sacrosanct. Some people are driven as the sun drives the shadows in front of it. For example, the cajun people have been driven, first from France, then from Acadia(Nova Scotia), now from the bayou(by the encroaching ocean). This is just one example of the many which could be cited. To be pushed by the societal establishment is not a fate of shame, it rather is the push of the bland, the unimaginative, upon the innovative to help the larger species to define the new frontier. To be truely wise would be for you and your posterity to always be, thusly having the most pride of any amongst a people, the ones who walk the line between the present and the future. Never teaching your children to be satisfied as the establishment is the act of a wise parent. Shame should be found in being less of a frontiersman than your parents. Always pushing the boundaries of the future with heart and mind is to be wise in this world beyond most mere mortals ability or dreams.

Betrayal of Self

Something which always has disturbed me is the capacity for some individuals to talk about great things and to feel within themselves that they believe them and when it comes to being those ideals they prove themselves to be all mouth. I wonder where that comes from. Do they feel they are being genuine and in the purest of ideals they would stand for what they believe, yet they believe what they feel is not accomplishable in the reality/world in which they live. How can you be so idealistic yet jaded, they seem to be mutually exclusive of each other. It's a sad realization to have the ability to have the tools/resources to relentlessly pursue the things which you have known to be of pure heart, and the only thing it requires is the faith of those whom you have had the conversations of ideas with. Yet when it comes to this moment they gladly take the easiest way out possible for them, and you are left with the realization that they are not what they say they are. Even more disturbing is the reality that you have had to be personally involved in seeing the worst example of lack of stewardship you may ever have had the chance to see done differently. All I can say with absolute certainly is that I will never allow myself to be on the wrong side when it stands starkly against everything I am as a human. Some among us see individual function as paramount even if they say they value collective response, some know that individual only exists as a part of a collective. I hope I will never take actions against cooperation and collective response.

review

It was my intention to take a topic a day and address it, I'm not feelin it today, my mojo needs rechargin. Or maybe I just need some gin. I did see a good documentary called Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream. It talked about peak oil and Germany and Sweden's role at the forefront of this energy revolution of our time. It identified Washington and California as leaders in the U.S., but gave Texas, and particularly Austin, the title of absolutely cutting edge. It took several individual and municipal case studies and examined them as well. I would recommend it to anyone.

Deeper fabric of a debate

Governments are in collaboration with elites or the money establishment to tap off the people power in places around the world and divide us. A method of this is emi/immigration. Some people fall straight into the line of logic the power structure wants and say anyone against emi/immigration is a racist. Not I, anyone who knows me knows that's a stupid comment to try and apply to me. The women I've loved in my life have ranged from blonde to black and the men whom have called me brother have been similarly varied. Unless they are refugees the world's poorest generally do not move. The people who move are the ones who have a little extra money to finance it and the motivation to be a real threat to the moneyed elites, clinging to power, in their own countries. Corporations are in a silent deal through governments with the elites to tap off the people power which could cause grassroots movements to gain traction and potentially overturn the banquet table at which they so greedily sit. It also prevents labor from being able to collectively bargain and raise the bar for the workers. We could flip the table on elites, transnational corporations, and the governments of the world by a simple act, internationalization of unions or collective bargaining. This would require absolute solidarity. It would end the ability to go elsewhere for transnationals, stop the disempowerment of grassroots movements, and help to recognize a beautiful reality which is the power of place and help to make it a thing able to be defended, not just a reality which can be trampled. The issue is not people, I love people and say long live the people of Mexico, Brazil, India, Indonesia, and everywhere. The issue is getting governments out of the way of its people. Older governments, as all institutions, are concerned with the continuation of parts or tiers of itself, and it's survival. T.J. or Thomas Jefferson called for a revolution in every generation to prevent the entrenched survival phase, which is a part of the growth or evolution of every establishment. Staying young at heart is the point I think. Always stand for your fellows wherever they may be and never let imaginary constructs stand between you and your humanity which causes you to care for all, from microbe to megafauna. Peace out brothers and sisters, till latr.

Injustice

Disassembling things into their constituent parts has its value. Take the justice system, or don't and call it the injustice system, as I do. I was stopped by two officers in a squad car the other day for failing to stop at a stop sign, on my bicycle that is. I proceeded to tell them that even though one cop came off as an asshole and told me I should check myself into a psychiatric ward, I had the feeling they were both good cops but more importantly good men. I commenced to tell them I respected and saw the value in domestic civil defense, but I lamented the fact that the injustice system undermined their desire to solve social problems and create better communities. The system is another money game in which the judiciary hands down incarceration instead of just punishment being handed by and representative of the collective or people. So the punishment which comes is in the form of sexual assault, gang, ethnic, and racial violence from other prisoners, who are not the executioners of justice from the collective. They are rather people all waiting for a justice never to come except in the form of proxies who are in no position to fill that role. Justice to me is the justice of a father who punishes in the moment of fault, then picks back up saying "now let's go fulfill your potential". This incarceration is in The School of Criminality and one becomes a full time student to survive. This ensures a revolving door in which potentially good men are taken out of communities and sent to a place to become bad men. This is good for judges, it ensures a necessity for their continued existence. Good for the the construction companies which continue to build the prisons. Good for the powerful correctional officers union, one of the few remaining viable unions. This is not even a union which represents valuable craftsmanship, yet it remains, a symbol of social failure. Does anyone else see the folly, insanity, and shortsightedness? The dark haired officer with the German last name did, as he is on the front line of this battle, and he told me I was free to go, without writing me a ticket. Some of the things which must be changed wait for the old generation to die off. It is up to mine and my sister's generation, for even my brother's generation is far to establishment. Adam Smith has nothing to say in this day and time, as many others do not (Machiavelli for example). Ask any woman who has birthed a child which is harder, to create or destroy. That is the place we are at, awaiting the creation of the constructs of our own heart, I say let's pick up the pace and create civil society groups we agree with more than half the time. You?

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I started thinking of the capacity we as a species have for darkness. We not only do not make it a daily effort to put down and rise above the most foul aspects of our being (for instance to kill for nothing, and to be beholden to imaginary constructs), we actively spread our darkness to other creatures not of our own species. For example, the animals which have been with us some of the longest time, domestic dogs and house cats, exhibit the same behavior of killing for nothing. We and our cousin species chimps were the only ones to do these things, and we have not managed the darkness in our nature and have more gravely become the agents of calamity by making internal flaws take the form of a virus which spreads. I read yesterday, on a juice bottle no less (which made me think, is nothing sacred, and has it become so common that it does not even give us pause) an old quote having to do with courage. It said courage is not the absence of fear but rather the recognition that something is more important than personal fear. I would agree, and encourage all to recognize moments to be courageous more often and become warriors in the revolution of the heart.