Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Is our species hard wired to wonder why…little children seem never to stop wondering about things…they are always asking “why”, and then always checking things out for themselves when “no” or “because” just didn’t seem to be a good reason… not to touch a hot stove or poke things in the electrical outlet or touch a cold metal object in the winter with their tongue.Back in the day life must have been so much simpler when we weren’t so smart…the reasons for life were simple…the Gods were angry so they caused disasters…back then earthquakes weren’t caused by the movement in the tectonic plates and because of the simple reasons the solutions were simple…round up a virgin or two and sacrifice them to appease the Gods.
Then the powers that be got a little more more complicated for with the bigger populations to control and a far more complex society that didn’t rely on hunting and gathering, beaurocracies were needed to manage the people and the economy that centered on the surpluses of their crops…and voila taxes, Kings and religions…Now explanations to life would be centered on living according to working hard, paying your taxes and obeying the laws of the land. Simple… one didn’t need much more to know to go through life.
Today because of how smart we have become we are constantly being told by Science of all kinds of things that we have done wrong, things that we thought were good for us are bad, the list is endless: butter, carbs, eggs, fish, canola…and then things we thought were bad are not… apparently now sugar is not bad, as is sunshine, ganja, red wine, chocolate…
Science in all of its wisdom now knows all about managing money…but errr…it has many different theories that we seem to adopt at different times and all seem to just make more money for those who have too much. Now the wisdom of the past…live a good life, work hard and pay your taxes just isn’t cutting the mustard anymore…and we wonder why?Lots of things that happen these days make me wonder why:
Why when men in suits break the law they get less of a penalty then when the average Joe or Josie break the law?
So if you wear a suit you can not only break the law and get no Prison time but the taxpayers will fork over 6 million to pay for your lawyer? But if you are young and stupid you could be sent to jail for up to 14 years for soliticing donations by pretending you have cancer? Another big thing I wonder about is why is it when things are not going so good for oh so many more people these days it seems that instead of gaining compassion for those who have had some of these same struggles for a much longer time than us that we do not gain compassion for them and understand that the system is broken…and the system that is broken is not the one that we should go marching faster and more furiously towards…yes the live a good life, work hard and pay your taxes just isn’t working anymore…for those men in suits that control the economy have it all rigged to ensure that they not only enrich themselves but also have it rigged that they will escape having to pay for their actions…because of their friends in Government and their friends in Finance…Yes I wonder why instead of us becoming more kinder to our fellow citizens and more open to a new economic system we are bunkering down and becoming meaner and less open to rational thought.
Then the powers that be got a little more more complicated for with the bigger populations to control and a far more complex society that didn’t rely on hunting and gathering, beaurocracies were needed to manage the people and the economy that centered on the surpluses of their crops…and voila taxes, Kings and religions…Now explanations to life would be centered on living according to working hard, paying your taxes and obeying the laws of the land. Simple… one didn’t need much more to know to go through life.
Today because of how smart we have become we are constantly being told by Science of all kinds of things that we have done wrong, things that we thought were good for us are bad, the list is endless: butter, carbs, eggs, fish, canola…and then things we thought were bad are not… apparently now sugar is not bad, as is sunshine, ganja, red wine, chocolate…
Science in all of its wisdom now knows all about managing money…but errr…it has many different theories that we seem to adopt at different times and all seem to just make more money for those who have too much. Now the wisdom of the past…live a good life, work hard and pay your taxes just isn’t cutting the mustard anymore…and we wonder why?Lots of things that happen these days make me wonder why:
Why when men in suits break the law they get less of a penalty then when the average Joe or Josie break the law?
So if you wear a suit you can not only break the law and get no Prison time but the taxpayers will fork over 6 million to pay for your lawyer? But if you are young and stupid you could be sent to jail for up to 14 years for soliticing donations by pretending you have cancer? Another big thing I wonder about is why is it when things are not going so good for oh so many more people these days it seems that instead of gaining compassion for those who have had some of these same struggles for a much longer time than us that we do not gain compassion for them and understand that the system is broken…and the system that is broken is not the one that we should go marching faster and more furiously towards…yes the live a good life, work hard and pay your taxes just isn’t working anymore…for those men in suits that control the economy have it all rigged to ensure that they not only enrich themselves but also have it rigged that they will escape having to pay for their actions…because of their friends in Government and their friends in Finance…Yes I wonder why instead of us becoming more kinder to our fellow citizens and more open to a new economic system we are bunkering down and becoming meaner and less open to rational thought.
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler
