I have over the years, laid out various philosophical problems
we “modern” have faced…not answered but faced…
this is the next problem we face… connection…
if there was one trait that all, ALL human beings have it is this,
we seek connection to people, places, things…
we seek to connect to “whatever” it is we try to connect to…
many seek and find connection within family… for that is the first
place we often find connection within… then because of our
indoctrinations, we find connections within more abstract things…
the state, religion and other ism’s…
I am a huge sport fan, I will watch all kinds of sports…
anything from baseball to football to golf to track and field
and just about any sport, (not car racing… that is truly boring)
but I love the Olympics, winter or summer, doesn’t matter to me…
but I love watching obscure sports like curling and bobsleigh in the winter
Olympics and just about anything in the summer Olympics…
sports is one way I can feel a connection as is religion
is another way to feel a connection as is ART or literature or
any activity that we can do… we can feel a connection by reading
or watching TV… the important thing is that we are human beings
and what we do as human beings is try to feel a connection to something…
those who worship IQ45 do so because they feel a connection to him…
all religions exists because they create connections within us…
if there was one thing that existed for all human beings, I would
say it was this need for a connection from us to something else…
let us look at some people… they have rejected the last election as being
fraudulent and “stolen” and they believe there is some sort of “deep state”
that has and is committing crimes… and these people distrust the government
and distrust vaccines and distrust society in general… so I ask you, what
are they connected to? there point of connection is via there vast and multitudes
of conspiracies…they have a conspiracy for everything…the moon landing was
fake, there is some vast conspiracy to rule the world… among the favorite
targets of these conspiracy theories is the “trilateral commission” the “Jews”
the “illuminati” the 9/11 conspiracy, sandy hook conspiracy, and the whole body
of work involving the Clintons or George Soros or both together…
the need for these conspiracy is still a basic one, the need to connect…
and their point of connection is within insane and unprovable conspiracy
theories… that cannot ever be proven or have any evidence for…
and that is the beauty of conspiracy theories… they exists outside of
facts or evidence… they are unprovable… and that is the point…
the conspiracy theory connects one to a theory of existence…
we live in a universe full of conspiracies… and that connects people
to the world…it doesn’t matter that those who hold conspiracy theories
exists outside of the normal… they connect by existing outside of the normal…
outside of those they consider to be “sheep” who listen to “corrupting” or “fake”
influences like CNN or MSNBC or the regular media… they have disdain for
people who do not hold their conspiracy theories… that is their connection…
they are “above” us…
so, we all, ALL seek some sort of connection…
that is the connection we human beings seek…
the connection itself… for others, for religions,
for the love of ISM’S and ideologies… we hope to find ourselves
connected to some ism or ideology like conspiracy theories or
communism or capitalism or catholicism or hinduism…or whatever
ism one finds oneself in…
but I hold a radical belief… until we hold a connection to each other, we
shall be seeking and searching… for what lies right in front of us…
I can go outside of my marriage and seek a connection to another, but
the fact is, the fact is that which is right before me, that connection I hold
to my wife is enough… I just need to hold that fact to be true… and I am saved…
we quite often seek something that is outside of us and ignore that which is right in front of us
because we don’t have enough faith in that which lies right in front of us…
trust in yourself that you already hold the keys to the kingdom and ye
shall not seek anymore…the connections you seek are already deep inside
of you or better yet, right in front of you… you just have to open your eyes and
see…the connections of the human experience is already right in front of us…
even that most alone of us has that connection before us… you just have to
open your eyes and see… even someone as lonely as Nietzsche still had
the connection before him, he just didn’t have the vision to see…
that connection I refer to is the connection of every single human being
has with another… even if that connection feels invisible or non-existent…
it is there…even here with people I have never seen and couldn’t pick out
of a police lineup, you and I, both have connections to… why?
because we are human beings and that is a deep enough connection
to overcome all our loneliness… you just have to take a chance and attempt
to connect… even if no one seems to be out there…
so the philosophical problem is this…
do you have the courage to believe that you are part of something,
something very deep and profound… we call it the human race…
do you have the courage to believe in being part of the human race?
if so, you have found a deep connection… if not, you are alone…
what is your choice in this philosophical problem?
Kropotkin