so, let us examine what it means to be animal…
then what it means to be animal/human, then what it means
to be human, fully human…
animal… an engagement with a simple pursuit of our basic needs,
food, water, shelter, warmth, education………
all we do is seek out what our bodies need… the simple pursuit of
our animal needs…and nothing more…we don’t seek out our
possibilities because to be animal is to be without any possibilities…
if we are animal, we cannot, cannot become anything else…
we have fully encompass what it means to be animal…
we cannot become something else… that are no possibilities we can
reach…
animal/human… to be animal/human means we have some possibilities…
we see this in us today…we can become some things, not all things, but
some things… we do engage in the animal aspects of existence by
spending our days in futile attempts to met our daily needs of food, water,
shelter…….but because of the current political and economic system,
we cannot rise above such a petty search for our daily bread……
human… to become human means we rise above our daily search for
our animal needs of food, water, shelter… we no longer spend our days
in pursuit of those daily needs… we spend our days in pursuit of what it
means to become human…we have… we are possibilities incarnate…
the road to becoming human is full of possibilities… and the path of
going from animal to animal/human to human is the path of increased
possibilities for us………. the greater possibilities we can pursue is
the path to becoming more human…I can become a poet, a writer, a thinker,
a priest, a farmer, a lawyer… with each possibility come the higher possibility
of becoming human…… to become human means to engage with all our possibilities,
not just with the basic drive to procure our daily bread, but to become all
that is possible in being human…
the road to becoming human is the road to following our various
paths of possibilities of what it means to be human…
to be human means to engage with our possibilities…
and to be human is possibilities… animals have no possibilities…
animal/human have some possibilities… to be human is to have
all the possibilities available to us…
to explore what is possible for you… is to explore what it means
to be human… possibilities are what it means to be human…
and our current political/economic systems deny and destroy
our possibilities by making what is possible for us, is to be
mindless drones that simply exists to make money…
and that is our sole and defining reason for existence…
and that is denying what it means to be human…
to become something more then just animal/human, you must
begin by making life as something more then just making money…
making life to explore the possibilities within you…
by exploring the values which define us as human beings…
the path is…
the unexamined life isn’t worth living…
know thyself…
a reevaluation of values which means reexamine the values you have
and the values you should have…
to become who you are… by an reexamination of values, you see that
the values you hold are the values you were indoctrinated with as an child,
and an reexamination of your values will lead you to the real values that are you…
and then become those reexamine values… to become who you are…
by becoming those values which you can totally embrace and become…
I was raised in America… America embraces values like martial values…
and values of injustice and inequality and I was raised with those values…
indoctrinated with those values…
after a reexamination of my values, I discovered I didn’t hold those values
I hold values of justice and equality and love and peace…
I am now becoming my values… I want to exist as values of justice
and equality and peace…
this is the path of becoming who you are…
Kropotkin