we know that time/space are not fixed, absolute’s…
they change, they are flexible, time changes with mass
and space flexes, bends with mass, gravity/mass can change
both space and time…
this notion is part of what has atometized man, they have helped
man be reduced to a single atom within the universe……
we are now atoms in the universe, we react like atoms, not like
part of something but as individual atoms acting and reacting to
the universe………… our loss of the certainty of space/time has
created, in part, this change in our understanding in who we are…………
we are discrite, separate atoms……… with nothing to tie us to
the universe or to our fellow human beings………
we now see why so many are so intent on security…instead of freedom,
for this idea of everyone being a separate atom is a freedom that many
don’t want or afraid of… having freedom, real freedom means you are
responsible for your actions………if you are a individual atom like
every human being is, then every action you take is your action and no one else’s
and you are responsible for your actions…… .that is a scary thought…
to be completely responsible for our entire life’s actions…………
that is why many need security… not for external safety
but internal safety……. people are beginning to understand
what being an individual atom, means what It really means…….
and that scares people enough to want security…… and since
they can’t have internal security… they will take external security/safety………
it is fear that drives people to security and that is not only the physical security
of the police and the military and jails and a strong national defense
but to a more desperate faith in god………. for that is another
example of security…………. when people are afraid, they turn to god…
and that is why this loss of the certainty of time/space and of the ism’s
and ideologies of human beings has turned people to god…… in some vain
attempt to find the security, the safety, the certainty they found in
such concepts of space/time and nation and the alleged superiority of
this race or that religion or of a certain sex………………… we have lost the
security of those childhood myths, ism’s, habits, prejudices and superstitions
and we are adrift with the freedom of a atom…………… and that freedom
requires we must become responsible for our actions……
and we human beings fear becoming or taking responsibility
for our actions…………… as a kid, when I broke something
and my mom ask, Kropotkin, did you break that lamp?
and of course, of course I answered, no, not me…
maybe one of my sisters or the dog or the cat broke that lamp…
but it wasn’t me…… we try to evade responsibility for our actions
for fear of the consequences………for fear of the consequences………
maybe the answer to the question of being human exists
around this question of responsibility and our fear of consequences……….
we tell little children that they must be good or god will punish them…
we tell children if they aren’t good, that Santa Claus won’t bring them
toys………
we make hell the worst thing in the universe and if you don’t obey
god, you will spend all of eternity in this worst place in the universe…
in our attempt to create good, compliant, obedient citizens
we also separate children from who they are…
we atomtize them, which means we begin the process of turning children
into separate atoms, apart from their fellow man, apart from all that
make us truly human…………we atomitize man when we preach such
ism’s that turn man into atoms and that is what capitalism does…
it turns us into individual and separate atoms………… instead of
connecting us and bringing us together… ism’s like capitalism divides us
and separate us into atoms…
maybe this is the legacy of the industrial revolution and
the ensuing ism’s that came out of the industrial revolution,
capitalism……. it has divided us into individual and competing
atoms… atoms that fight over the small amount of scraps of paper that
our corporate overlords has starved us with over these last 100 years…….
capitalism has turned us into separate and individual atoms…
with no link to each other outside of money changing hands……
but we can be more, so much more then just individual atoms
that only produce and consume individually…………
what have I done here?
I have defined the modern man… fearful of the consequences,
having lost the link with our fellow human outside of our
economic link with our fellow human beings…
and afraid of taking responsibility for our own actions for fear of
the consequences……………….
Kropotkin