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As we begin this 21st century CE, we ought to have a total respect about all our 'Inalienable Individual Rights' as the foundational platform upon which a kind and sane life must rest. Our unique and privileged opportunity remains in the intellectual homework we each must entertain in this short life of ours, and this demands we think and act beyond the limits imposed on us all by the society that bore us and the 'Communities of Interests and Benefits' which sustain it and us as part of it.
As we begin this 21st century CE, we ought to have a total respect about all our 'Inalienable Individual Rights' as the foundational platform upon which a kind and sane life must rest. Our unique and privileged opportunity remains in the intellectual homework we each must entertain in this short life of ours, and this demands we think and act beyond the limits imposed on us all by the society that bore us and the 'Communities of Interests and Benefits' which sustain it and us as part of it.
Indeed, we must insist on a pursuit of happiness, sanity, and kindness in the course of our short existence by enjoying an ethical life. Accomplish this in spite of our compulsive fear and dread about all the ambiguities of our individual existence and that of our species and the nothingness that awaits us at the end of it.
Indeed, we must insist on a pursuit of happiness, sanity, and kindness in the course of our short existence by enjoying an ethical life. Accomplish this in spite of our compulsive fear and dread about all the ambiguities of our individual existence and that of our species and the nothingness that awaits us at the end of it.
To that end and with much premeditation we must somehow rewire our attitude, survive as sane self-aware entities, and capitalize on the short and only life given us as ethical beings.
To that end and with much premeditation we must somehow rewire our attitude, survive as sane self-aware entities, and capitalize on the short and only life given us as ethical beings.
No doubt, there is a nonviolent meta-civilization, residing independently in the very midst of the all-powerful planetary 'Barbaric' culture, as a most serious alternative to the dominant 'Barbaric mega-civilization, which also functions as a single political body over the whole of planet Earth, enduring as an alternative to 'Barbarism'.
No doubt, there is a nonviolent meta-civilization, residing independently in the very midst of the all-powerful planetary 'Barbaric' culture, as a most serious alternative to the dominant 'Barbaric mega-civilization, which also functions as a single political body over the whole of planet Earth, enduring as an alternative to 'Barbarism'.
As a whole this essay insists on an approach:
As a whole this essay insists on an approach:
1. Intent on establishing and facilitating the pursuit of sanity, kindness, fairness, felicity, and serenity through the self-actualization of the individual in the midst of a blissful existence.
1. Intent on establishing and facilitating the pursuit of sanity, kindness, fairness, felicity, and serenity through the self-actualization of the individual in the midst of a blissful existence.
2. Demanding the establishment and respect of our fundamental and irrefutable Inalienable Individual Rights.
2. Demanding the establishment and respect of our fundamental and irrefutable Inalienable Individual Rights.
3. Accepting the notion of “live and let live” without the creation of unquestionable dogmatic belief systems to ensure their endurance.
3. Accepting the notion of “live and let live” without the creation of unquestionable dogmatic belief systems to ensure their endurance.
4. Permitting us all to establish, for ourselves and by ourselves, a personalized set of meanings, values, and standards, in ways that will not scare or hurt anyone anywhere regardless of circumstances.
4. Permitting us all to establish, for ourselves and by ourselves, a personalized set of meanings, values, and standards, in ways that will not scare or hurt anyone anywhere regardless of circumstances.
As we begin this 21st century CE, we ought to have a total respect about all our 'Inalienable Individual Rights' as the foundational platform upon which a kind and sane life must rest.
As we begin this 21st century CE, we ought to have a total respect about all our 'Inalienable Individual Rights' as the foundational platform upon which a kind and sane life must rest.
Our unique and privileged opportunity remains in the intellectual homework we each must entertain in this short life of ours, and this demands we think and act beyond the limits imposed on us all by the society that bore us and the 'Communities of Interests and Benefits' which sustain it and us as part of it.
Our unique and privileged opportunity remains in the intellectual homework we each must entertain in this short life of ours, and this demands we think and act beyond the limits imposed on us all by the society that bore us and the 'Communities of Interests and Benefits' which sustain it and us as part of it.
Indeed, we must insist on a pursuit of happiness, sanity, and kindness in the course of our short existence by enjoying an ethical life. We must accomplish this in spite of our compulsive fear and dread about all the ambiguities of life and the nothingness that awaits us at the end of it.
Indeed, we must insist on a pursuit of happiness, sanity, and kindness in the course of our short existence by enjoying an ethical life. We must accomplish this in spite of our compulsive fear and dread about all the ambiguities of life and the nothingness that awaits us at the end of it.
To that end and with much premeditation we must somehow rewire our attitude, survive as sane self-aware entities, and capitalize on the short and only life given us as ethical beings.
To that end and with much premeditation we must somehow rewire our attitude, survive as sane self-aware entities, and capitalize on the short and only life given us as ethical beings.
Regardless of themes and in spite of the extemporaneousness of those separate thoughts along an apparent disconnectedness, or singularity here and there, or because of the obvious kinship of many, these mostly ad-lib, on-the-spot, improvised, unrehearsed, unplanned, off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment, and on-the-top-of-my-head thoughts written down over the years, as a whole suggests at least when not demanding outright our full participation in the reorientation of our societies toward a sane, ethical, and self-actualizing future, wherein the motto must be:
Regardless of themes and in spite of the extemporaneousness of those separate thoughts along an apparent disconnectedness, or singularity here and there, or because of the obvious kinship of many, these mostly ad-lib, on-the-spot, improvised, unrehearsed, unplanned, off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment, and on-the-top-of-my-head thoughts written down over the years, as a whole suggests at least when not demanding outright our full participation in the reorientation of our societies toward a sane, ethical, and self-actualizing future, wherein the motto must be:
Do no harm, capitalize on opportunities offered by life, and seek your self-actualization in an aura of joy and serenity in the course of that short conscious existence so mysteriously awarded to each of us for reasons still unknown to us all.
Do no harm, capitalize on opportunities offered by life, and seek your self-actualization in an aura of joy and serenity in the course of that short conscious existence so mysteriously awarded to each of us for reasons still unknown to us all.
Yet, human history (e.g., not the one cherished and marketed by your ‘Community of Interests and Benefits’ which is generally the culture you we’re born and raised within) has instead been one of exhibited mental cruelty, social insecurity, extreme sovereignty, and normalized lethal exhibitions of ‘self-righteous’ acts and events of domination of both our intellectual and social worlds.
Yet, human history (e.g., not the one cherished and marketed by your ‘Community of Interests and Benefits’ which is generally the culture you we’re born and raised within) has instead been one of exhibited mental cruelty, social insecurity, extreme sovereignty, and normalized lethal exhibitions of ‘self-righteous’ acts and events of domination of both our intellectual and social worlds.
That is why:
That is why:
Ethics must reign supreme at all times and under all conditions ... otherwise a dystopian future awaits us all.
Ethics must reign supreme at all times and under all conditions ... otherwise a dystopian future awaits us all.
We are on a Cosmic scale and by all measurements just insignificant self-aware viruses in the midst of an eternal infinity, and yet, we are now nevertheless conscious of our particular finity and mortality ... and this fact alone has rendered us mad as civilizations. Unless we find a way out of this conundrum, a dystopian world awaits us all, after which the destruction of our species will naturally follow.
We are on a Cosmic scale and by all measurements just insignificant self-aware viruses in the midst of an eternal infinity, and yet, we are now nevertheless conscious of our particular finity and mortality ... and this fact alone has rendered us mad as civilizations. Unless we find a way out of this conundrum, a dystopian world awaits us all, after which the destruction of our species will naturally follow.
We then require unbounded thinking to get us out of the conundrum in which we find ourselves not only as individuals but as cultures as well, wherein an 'unbounded planetary culture' promotes a philosophy of ethics to condition everything, freeing us at last to benefit from the luxury of peering into the eternal and infinity that created us all in the first place.
We then require unbounded thinking to get us out of the conundrum in which we find ourselves not only as individuals but as cultures as well, wherein an 'unbounded planetary culture' promotes a philosophy of ethics to condition everything, freeing us at last to benefit from the luxury of peering into the eternal and infinity that created us all in the first place.
This then is a basic exercise in navigating through the thick fog of that ambiguity surrounding us all from birth to death – regardless of who we are, how intelligent we are, how powerful we are, how rich we are, and how special we think we are. In the course of our wandering, we attempt to define some logic to our Earthly existence in the apparent infinite vastness of the Cosmos, since we seem caught up in what appears to be an undecipherable mission and purpose.
This then is a basic exercise in navigating through the thick fog of that ambiguity surrounding us all from birth to death – regardless of who we are, how intelligent we are, how powerful we are, how rich we are, and how special we think we are. In the course of our wandering, we attempt to define some logic to our Earthly existence in the apparent infinite vastness of the Cosmos, since we seem caught up in what appears to be an undecipherable mission and purpose.
Indeed, we seem to exist for a 'Purpose Unknown' to us all – at least at our present level of understanding.
Indeed, we seem to exist for a 'Purpose Unknown' to us all – at least at our present level of understanding.
Yet, in spite of it all, we, humans, note:
Yet, in spite of it all, we, humans, note:
1. That we are conscious and can think.
1. That we are conscious and can think.
2. That we know we will inevitably die once our predictable short sojourn is over.
2. That we know we will inevitably die once our predictable short sojourn is over.
3. That we share the near totality of animal characteristics possessed by all other mammals on Earth regardless of the level of awareness we possess.
3. That we share the near totality of animal characteristics possessed by all other mammals on Earth regardless of the level of awareness we possess.
4. That we are involuntary automated with an embedded tribal savagery of survival at all costs as a legacy from our primeval time still preprogrammed at the core of our biology, instincts, and daily awareness.
4. That we are involuntary automated with an embedded tribal savagery of survival at all costs as a legacy from our primeval time still preprogrammed at the core of our biology, instincts, and daily awareness.
5. That we are completely immersed in a context of total ambiguity in nearly all aspects of life—despite the adolescent angst and bravado most of us exhibit against this fact – one of which is our endless fondness for unquestionable and allegedly unalterable dogmas.
5. That we are completely immersed in a context of total ambiguity in nearly all aspects of life—despite the adolescent angst and bravado most of us exhibit against this fact – one of which is our endless fondness for unquestionable and allegedly unalterable dogmas.
So, our advancements as self-aware human beings must now rest and take place mostly at the combined intellectual and ethical levels. That is why:
So, our advancements as self-aware human beings must now rest and take place mostly at the combined intellectual and ethical levels. That is why:
We must keep on improving ourselves in every way imaginable and possible in a context saturated with sanity and kindness, because it is our only hope; the only way out at our disposal in order to appreciate and enjoy the gift of life and consciousness awarded to us for reasons totally unknown to us all.
We must keep on improving ourselves in every way imaginable and possible in a context saturated with sanity and kindness, because it is our only hope; the only way out at our disposal in order to appreciate and enjoy the gift of life and consciousness awarded to us for reasons totally unknown to us all.
Doing so, by living our life with the greatest integrity possible throughout our existence. And all the while the initial and continuing questions in the course of our short existence perpetually demands of us to attempt to answer the following questions: What is our raison d’être, the purpose of our mysteriously awarded life and self-awareness, and why are we going into oblivion after such a short lifespan?
Doing so, by living our life with the greatest integrity possible throughout our existence. And all the while the initial and continuing questions in the course of our short existence perpetually demands of us to attempt to answer the following questions: What is our raison d’être, the purpose of our mysteriously awarded life and self-awareness, and why are we going into oblivion after such a short lifespan?
These are deeply personal subjects, we all have to face, address, and resolve, if possible, before leaving this world, otherwise many of us end up mad as a hatter; even the most sophisticated ones among us.
These are deeply personal subjects, we all have to face, address, and resolve, if possible, before leaving this world, otherwise many of us end up mad as a hatter; even the most sophisticated ones among us.
Regardless of skills you were born with and whatever the field you express yourself in, go ahead and self-actualize. By doing so, you’re most likely to discover your real self and live your bliss”.
Dolores Maureen Pierson (1939 - 2019)
Winnipeg, London, Montréal, Sainte-Justine-de-Newton, and Rigaud, Canada
WE MUST BECOME ETHICAL SOCIETIES, OR WE WILL END UP IN A DYSTOPIAN WORLD ORDER
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