I am not ignoring you Iambiguous, I just have limited amount
of time today…
As existence creates its own questions, who am I? what am I to do?
what should I believe in? what should I hope for?..……
we understand life as a question of becoming…… in other words, I
am born a baby, what is my next becoming? why infant, then toddler,
the child, then teenager, then young adult…you see the ever present
becoming in growing up…
Today we are… tomorrow we will be…
but what will we be?
and that is the question of possibilities… every single human being is in
a state of flux, from being one thing to another, every minute is another
movement of being to becoming… to finding our possibilities…
but the problem in our going from being to becoming is we think in terms
of economics, of what should we do, in terms of a job or career or profession…
but that becoming is a small part of who we are… our possibilities are far
greater then simply what job should we have?..how do we support ourselves
has less significance then what should I become? the values we have and then
values we should have is another question of possibilities, of being to becoming…
we have these values, should we hold other values and why?
I am and I am becoming…….should be part of the question of existence
and the question of values is partly about this becoming…
what are my possibilities? I can become a doctor or a lawyer or
a cop or a politician or a checker in a grocery store but what other
possibilities exists for me, outside of what my job is?
for example, does being a checker preclude me from being a nice person,
a mean person, a loving person, a funny person…the search for
profits has devalued human values like justice, truth, love, peace and
hope… it doesn’t matter in my job if I am nice or kind or smart or
evil… as long as I make profits, that is my only value at work…
there are no other possibilities inherent in my job…
but how do I engage in finding my possibilities if my worth is
measured in terms of making profit? Let us take the political…
one man, one vote is the basic, fundamental principle of democracy,
but that principle has been subverted by money which has bought
our elected officials from main street to Pennsylvania ave in Washington DC…
Money has corrupted our entire electoral process, so how can I find my possibilities
given money has corrupted our entire political process?
and economically, the lie that anyone can “make” it given they work hard,
there is millions upon millions of people working hard, very, very hard and
they are still making minimal amount of money… for most Americans,
they are three paychecks from being homeless… how is that square with this
idea of working hard and “making it”? the average median income was $56,516…
and these people work very hard for that money… the mean household income
was roughly $79 thousand dollars a year…
(the median means the amount
which divides the income groups into two groups, half above that number
and half is below that number and the mean income is the amount
obtained by dividing the total aggregate income of a group by the number
of units within that group… so in the median income group… half of America
is below $56,516 and half is above that number, so roughly the monthly income
of those who are at $56,516 is $4,709… or roughly $1,200 a week and missing
three paychecks is roughly $3500… and that is the breaking point of most
Americans)
but there are other possibilities besides economically, what job should I have?
we can discover our possibilities in sports, ARTS, reading, writing, imagination,
and fantasy…what is needed is less focus on making our lives about
the creation of wealth/profits that never go to us, but go to those who
own the means of production…
there is nothing to be gained by the average person to engage in the
the economic system of America, capitalism… unless a lifetime of
working until the body collapses and the soul is crushed, really floats
your boat… then rock on…….
our possibilities isn’t found in the pursuit of wealth or profits,
our possibilities is found engaging in some action or event that
allows us to answer this question of being to becoming… we are
and what should we be… working 40 hours a week for 40 years
isn’t going to answer the question of becoming…what should we become…
the engagement with work only solves the question of, how am I going to eat?
How can I support my family? and that answer can be found in other ways,
other possibilities that lie outside of capitalism… for capitalism has
proven itself to be a failure and we must rethink our economic system…
which is another form of engaging in being to becoming…
what is more important, the GDP… the Gross domestic product or
finding the answer to the question, what are my possibilities?
and if you have to ask which one is more important, then
you are in clear need of an reevaluation of values…….
why is the need for goods we don’t need to survive outweighs
the question of what is really important in our lives?
we don’t need TV’s or fancy cars or nice couches for our fat asses to
survive, the basics necessities of life is really quite minimal,
and we can get to understanding what is our possibilities
without the lifetime engagement with capitalism that
destroys our soul and body………
that is why ART is so important because it tells us what possibilities exists
for us… we can become brave or strong or smart or loving, values that mean
something far greater then just our engagement with our job/work and
we can become those values through our engagement with ART…
we can see what is possible through ART… and we can see what is
possible through sports, where we can see how strong we are or how brave
we are or how we face adversity in sports tell us much about how we face
adversity in life…….
we must engage in those activities like ART and sports and travel
and learning because they push the being in us into becoming…
and we must, must make ART and sports and learning and travel to
a much higher level of our engagement in life… much more then
just work/the pursuit of profits… which doesn’t engage in
finding our possibilities that we must engage in…
what about our other possibilities, such as religion, philosophy,
history? more about that boys and girls later…
I must get ready to go to that body destroying/ soul crushing
job…
Kropotkin