to make things better… Ad Meliora… to the better things…
Can we possibly make this a paradigm? a path into the future…
let us examine some actions and see if we can make some
sense of it via Ad Meliora?
does turning America into a dictatorship, is that turning things
into the better? I don’t see how…There is no positive to be found
in turning America into a dictatorship…for at its heart, a dictatorship
is really another form of violence against the people…how does
taking away rights from people turn into ''better things?"
How does putting people into jail because of the words they
use, how does that make us or America better? How does
taking away the rights of gays or trans people, how does
that make things better? How does claiming that half the
country is ‘‘un-American’’ because they don’t hold your viewpoint,
how is that making things better? How does deporting immigrants,
make things better? the basis for deporting people is allegedly
the crime/crimes they have committed, and yet, it is being
selectively enforced… IQ45 committed 35 felonies, and yet,
and yet, he got elected president… is now immune from
punishment for ANY crime he has or will have committed…
how is this making anything better? Selective Enforcment of
crimes isn’t the path to making anything better…
and in fact, I would suggest that selective enforcement of
crimes is making America worse, much, much worse, not better…
I can’t see how any action taken by the IQ45 administration,
is making us better… and it is, making us and America worse…
much worse, not better…how does sending troops into cities,
making America better? It is a failure because it doesn’t
address the real problems within the cities… it isn’t crime
that is the problem within cities… it is the lack of hope
and the inability to create hope and possibilities within the cities
that create any problems the cities have…
How does putting troops into democratic cities, as
the IQ45 administration has done, how does that solve any of
the problems of crime, housing, drugs, pollution, that exists
within the cities? It isn’t making anything better, it is in fact,
making life within cities worse, and that isn’t positive,
but negative, it is nihilism… nothing more…
if we return to an old theme of mine, that the pursuit
of the trinkets of existence, that of power, money,
fame, material possessions, and titles… isn’t making one’s
live better, so, how does the state, as defined by IQ45
administration, how does the pursuit of power, as this
administration is doing, how is that making anything better?
for the pursuit of power has no positive within it… it leads us
nowhere and gains us nothing… individually or collectively…
the only goals that has a positive effect, are goals that
improve, make things better are the goals of love, hope,
charity, the goal of Ad Meliora are positive goals, not
negative goals… for negative goals are, by their very
nature, nihilism…
But Kropotkin, what you are advocating is a utopia?
no, not at all… I am saying we should engage with
making things better… not worse, as the GOP/MAGA
party is doing… and making things better doesn’t mean
we all turn into saints, not at all… it means we examine
who we are and then overcome what is negative, nihilistic…
it means every single day, become a little bit better…
that is all it means… we can’t remake the world overnight,
but we can begin that remaking by making the small
change within us that is negative… by overcoming the
nihilism that is so prevalent in our modern age…
seeking out Ad Meliora… every day, in every way…
that is the beginning of the overcoming of the
nihilism that is the world today… taking the small steps
to being better…
Kropotkin
