One of the pursuits of philosophy has been
pursuit of the basic principle of the universe…
what is the driving, basic principle that makes up our universe?
that basic, driving force is energy/matter…….
we have answered one of the primary questions in early philosophy…
the universal that is everything is energy/matter…… that is the basic
principle of the universe…….
for their is nothing on the other side of energy/matter…
it cannot be reduced into something else… this conversion
of energy into matter and matter into energy is the most basic
and fundamental principle of the universe… everything begins
and ends here……
now the question becomes, does energy have a goal?
does matter have a goal to achieve or is energy/matter directionless?
if we look at the forces of the universe, gravitation, electromagnetism,
weak interaction and the strong interaction… we see that they are not directed.
they simple act without foresight or understanding of cause or effect……
they simple are…
to assume that the energy/matter in the universe is directed is to assume
something that we cannot know…… how do we connect this directionless
energy of the four forces in the universe into our understanding of what it means
to be human?
as evolution is a force, just as gravity is a force, we see that evolution has
harnessed energy into us… we have energy because we are living matter…
and to be living matter is to be energy… evolution simply took that energy
and did something with it… evolution is directionless but it always uses
energy to maintain the forms that matter takes…to study evolution is
really the study of historical form living matter took…dinosaurs
are just energy taking form and all that life that existed before humans…
that was simply energy taking form…… and there was no design or purpose
to the form that energy took… it simply is nothing more then a formula…
take time, billions of years and add energy/matter and
and life will take hold…even inhospitable environment’s can
support some form of life even if it is a single cell organism.
it took over 4 billions years for human beings to be created on planet earth…
it is not a fast process… and given its nature, it is not an efficient process…
for energy by not being directed is not a efficient process…… but we can direct
our energy… and that separates us from the animals, we can direct what
we spend our energy to and we understand how energy works…it is this
question of energy that separates us from all other life…… we can combine
our energy and achieve goals such as the building of houses or the creation
of ART or whatever…
the question of the state, of government is a simple one, how are we going to
direct our collective energy? on what are we going to use our energy for?
here comes the question of values… for values direct the use of our energy…………
are we to use our energy to gain positive goals or are we going to use our energy
on negative goals? love is a positive energy and hate is a negative energy
and greed is an negative energy……. and hope is a positive energy………
our values helps us decide on what goals we shall achieve using our energy……
so the question of life is simply a question of what are we spending our energy on?
so the Kantian/Kropotkin questions of, what am I to do? What shall I hope for?
what may I hope for? what values should we hold? are really questions of
how are we to use our energy… to what purpose are we going to use our personal
and collective energy on?
and energy has a personal and a collective usage…… so how are we going to
collectively use our collective energy… is really the question the state faces.
upon what are we going to use our energy on?
and the list is open, far and wide… we can expend energy on
eliminating poverty or going into space or we can use our energy on wasteful,
inefficient projects like war or hate………the choice we have as human
beings is really a question of what are we spending our energy on…
Kropotkin