For centuries we contemplate. For centuries we search, research, theorize. The one thing that sets us apart from other animals is this cognitive brain of ours. We wonder where we came from. We wonder what our purpose. If there is nothing greater than us… then we are the gods of earth. if they are doing right…they do what they do and that is it. We postulate, we argue, we war….about things we have made. And these things we have made mean nothing.
We use this power…this power of logic and thinking to construct things we argue about. We use this power to wield it over others, to wield over earth. We construct what is moral, what is right…what is wrong, jobs, money, games, suffering.
We make things to distract us from our essence. An elk does not have the power or reason. It though has the power of learning and conditioning. Humans have conditioned themselves out of reason and learning. We look outside for insights within. We look elsewhere for what is inside. We concentrate on what is not and not what is.
Any other animal is one with the universe. It does not have to think nor reason. It is. They do not sit in contemplation wondering
Man lived with sounds, not language. Man did not so much wonder where he was from as he just was and did. Man created reasons when he could to explain his actions of survival and then…one day…the concept of better happened and all hell broke loose. Instead of communal sharing and security man broke out with power and deception…..I want what you have….because I do not have it. Though if man never knew what the other had, he would never want it.
James Gray Said:
on February 12, 2009 at 1:42 PM
Is that a bad thing? You said we developed morality, but does morality really matter?
magiawen Said:
on February 12, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Sure morality matters, it simply can be corrupt like most other things we have constructed. Is it a bad thing? In and of itself no. Though there are people that have some interesting ideas of what is moral behavior and what is not.
We are creators and as such we do an awful lot of destruction, we create value in places where it may not matter and devalue those things that do.
James Gray Said:
on February 15, 2009 at 3:29 PM
With the concept of “better” we also have a concept of morality, which is good, but it is also the cause of people becoming “the takers,” like in the movie Instinct with Anthony Hopkins.
Can’t we want power for morally sound reasons?