When your path is in the opposite direction from the one you know you should be on – maybe it’s time wonder if it leads to the same place — while there’s still time to go back.
Children are being taught life in processed, blended, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-swallow portions.
But life isn’t easy to understand – and frequently not so easy to swallow.
Adults are responsible – and that responsibility brings a thoughtful acceptance of the need for freedom of thought and of action – real diversity.
At the same time as science has been moving from a classification by form; to a classification by behavior – government has been moving from a democracy of behavior; to a dictatorship of form — Form Based
It’s a privilege that comes at a price: paid for by others now – and by themselves later.
What’s in it for those who do the “wiring”? Everything.
Mechanistic concepts of humanity are proliferating; especially those that promote human use over human worth.
Mechanistic science involves breaking down the universe into its component processes and parts – without knowing or ensuring that you have all the parts or understand the processes. It’s a “lossy” technique that throws out everything that is too complex or superficially unclear; in order to prove its thesis.
In our disintegrating world; swirling with ignorance, poverty, and famine – the trumpetings of science seem more like the unveiling of a golden throne, than a compassionate hand to the fallen.
Everyone praises those in authority in Tompkins County – if they want to keep their job. It’s a networking, quid pro quo hotbed; where the elite skim their lifestyle off the top. BMWs speed through our rural communities; looking around with the attitude of sightseers at an Animal Park — if we don’t wither away soon; they’ll have to use a stronger poison.
So many people want to be Authority Figures these days – flashing honors and credentials like patents of nobility.
Or Messengers: racing from place to place – filled with the importance of delivering the News; without the danger and drudgery of involvement.
A society of elite people holding themselves above or outside of the oppression and evil of our times — with an eye on the lifeboat.
Outreach is important. The “If they want our help; they can come to us” attitude of our institutions leaves people to rot in place – or suffer until they are willing to take that big first step. Instead of making people ask: “Can you help me?” — We should be asking; “How can we help you?”
We work harder and harder to put aside crops that we cannot eat – for the glory of those who only count warehouses.
There is no room for the Big Picture – for us; it’s all filled with Doctrine.
Like the joke about losing money on every item sold; but making it up in volume – today’s Social Justice policies have little connection to practicality – or reality.
I’m still waiting for an explanation of why it’s a good idea to give our government the power to discriminate against whoever they choose. It will probably be something like: “We lose rights for every citizen – but we make it up in . . . .”? I can’t imagine.
Crimestoppers? Case-solvers might be a better name for it – with everyone doing their part to solve the case – But stopping crime is not about process: it’s about results.
I remember being told by a coworker that when she replaced the carpet in her condo unit: the floor underneath was found to be covered with cigarette butts and unswept construction debris – the original carpet layers just rolled the carpet and pad over whatever was on the floor: just doing their part.
Maybe the problem is not a case of “falling through the cracks” but of being hidden under the Criminal Justice System carpet.