this question of needs, wants and desires are place into
context when understood in our current, 2019, time…
we see what our unfettered attempts to feed our needs, wants and
desires have done… we have seen both the large scale damage,
climate change and world wide pollution and the massive extinction
event that has occurred during our watch…….to our small scale damage
done to our souls…we cannot however much we try answer or fulfill
our wants, needs or desires…I just filled a need by eating dinner, steak
actually, but that need will need to be filled again in the morning and again
during lunch and again and again and again, for the duration of my life…
Have you ever heard of a person who had sex once and said, yep, I’m good,
my needs and desires have been filled?
nope, the desires of food, fame, fortune, booze are never filled or sated…
for people, filling a need or want or desire is not a one time thing, it is an ongoing
lifetime thing…just as we need to evaluate our quest to become who we are,
we need to evaluate our needs and wants and desires… why do I want
that person or why do I “need” to attempt to make as much money as I possibly
can… why do I want to be a millionaire or why do I want to be famous?
we can only begin to understand ourselves if we not only become aware
of ourselves intellectually but within our needs and wants and desires…
we are driven by our needs and wants and desires and perhaps it is time we
understand that driven behavior of needs, wants and desires…
It is not enough to say, “evolution made me do it” for we are the sole
creatures of matter and energy that can override our evolutionary
demands within us…….we can act outside of our evolutionary DNA, the
code that dictates who we are and what is possible for us… we can say no to
the evolutionary demand or we can say yes to becoming something new…
that is the true nature of being human… we can rise above our evolutionary
coding and be something else besides our coding…….
no other animal, that we know of, can do that…….a dog must act like
a dog and a cat can only act like a cat and cows must be cows but human
beings, we can override our coding and become something else……
all animals have a fight or flight coding in them… it is evolutionary coding
that allows animals to survive another day but we humans, if we are strong
enough, we can override our fight or flight coding and do something different…
we can overcome who we are, within our genetic coding, and become more human…
which means we can overcome our coding… we can rise above our coding……
that is what it means to overcome our coding…… we are determined by evolution
to be a creature we call human beings… our coding determines who we are
but we can overcome that coding……. we can rise above the coding of
hate, anger, greed, lust…… we can recode ourselves to hold as our values
love, peace, justice, hope……………it is hard to rewrite our coding, but the
people who have counted for something, Gandhi and Jesus and MLK
and Mohammed have all given us the tools to overcome our evolutionary coding…
it is easy to just say, no, I can’t overcome my genetic coding and I will simply
be what my codes say I am to be… but the great ones have shown us
the way to overcome our base coding, the way to be more then just a
another determined (genetically) animal…to be human, to be fully human
we have to rise above our genetic and evolutionary coding………
that is the path to being human… rising above our genetic coding……
and we see by following our genetic coding of greed and lust and anger,
we have damage both ourselves and our environment… to overcome the
damage we have done to both ourselves and our environment, we must
rise above our coding and become who we are, not just animals that follow
our genetic coding, but human beings that is matter and energy and all that
that means… which is we accept our place in the universe as part of the
great universe, not as beings with ownership of the universe, but as
fellow participants with our brothers and sisters of matter and energy which
is everything in the universe……. we are not above or below the universe
of matter and energy, but we stand part of and united with the universe of
matter and energy…
Kropotkin