Where delusion and fear reside, so does suffering. Delusion for the purpose of benefit and expansion is called imagination. Delusion for the purpose of destruction is called death. We are such fragile creatures. So full of fear. Fear of death, fear of shame, fear of indolence. Perfection as we define it is the master of will. To gain the respect of all, to get the control of all men and women. To receive every comfort and desire in existence. To be praised and worshipped. The expansion of self, and the extinguishing of all others in subservience. Our minds structured for the function of this purpose with no regard to self or others. To be trained to endorse one set of emotions and suppress the other, to live in a constant hell one’s own creation. When one suppresses another he suppresses his own facilities. This is the megalomaniac. What are the benefits of this torture of self and the extinguishing of others? Slaves to provide you with your subsistence, and women to bare and raise your children. To spare your race, and subjugate another to take on these tasks. This is done when one over takes their own carrying capacity. So, they take another’s. The cycle is no different than the grey goo scenario. We pillage, consume, suppress, and repeat. This way has been called war since the very beginning of human civilization. Called different names: royalty, feudalism, emperors, lords, kings, imperialism, capitalism, industrialism, thieves, murders, rapists. When the state kills for its nation it’s called war. When an individual kills another it is called murder. I see no difference in these clever semantics. We cannot heap together in a pyramid; selectively stifling ourselves in subjection. Each one us must be a fully enlightened purpose, and know that we are powerful not by a sword or gun, but by the mind that creates our reality.
The imagination is infinite. Carrying capacity is not. Balance is will always be restored, regardless of the winners and losers. When we plunder, we destroy this balance and hang on by a thin a string. We disturb this enough, and we receive the karma that we have brought upon ourselves. Nothing is forever yours, only borrowed. The study of life must be taken from the classroom and be among life; and allow it to be the teacher. This is where the study of biology and ecology must be done. This is where the land will speak, and minds will be connected. Away from life, we forget what we ourselves are and how it works. Insolation only leads to ignorance and destruction. Insolation leads to indoctrination and self-delusion. Rather than isolation, the net must be widened greater. The “inter-net”. The connection of minds and realities.
How to raise a child? Raise them where life in all of its diversity exists. Introduce them to life in all of its manifestations, and how that he or she is just another life form. And that the medium and composition are the same, yet the structure is all that differs. Indulge and involve them in the complexity of reality; that which we blind ourselves from reality to pursue our pleasure and escape our fears.
And how do we take the blinders away from the adults? How do we relieve them of their fears? We give them mercy, understanding, empathy, sympathy, listening, a hand to hold, a hug to give, a place to rest, a stronghold of weakness. We be compassionate to the nature of all suffering.
What is objective reality? It is replicable reality. Yet, even this reality is the simple result of overwhelming complexity. Objective reality is the acceptance and understanding of complex systems, not independent parts. When one rests on the simple reality of subjectivity, there will always be fear and megalomania in quest for the peace that one will never receive. Embracing complexity means embracing peace. The picture turns from several forces contrived to fighting one another, to a single coherence.