Labor day

Being lost is the only way to be. If you're not lost Feeling lost is Being lost is the only way to be. How can we avoid it, being humans as we are? Our collective memory is an afterthought of the universe. In four generations, where will you be? In forty-thousand generations, will there be any of us left? In 40 million generations, what will we have left to say? Is 40 As we worry about the rat race, our spark of consciousness remains short and frg fragile. To what end do we work? Our creation has been successful We've already won. We're here.

So now what? The universe provides little answers. History tells us that we are going to die, that people will forget who we are, and continue to struggle, as they live focused on their lives. What we have are our lives; perhaps all we can do is celebrate that, and confront those who and work to limit its destruction. Of course, I am referring to all of us our lives, not merely the few who are reading these words. Where do we want to live? We can make that place – that is the task of the modern person, to be deliberate, because it is an option now.

And then we'll leave, whether or not we do what we set out to do. It is our destiny to struggle with this world and these brains, and that is all. Whether we have a choice to be lost is not in our hands, we simply are.

As we attempt to conquer a universe that has already conquered us, we search for constants that help us forget our enslavement; and this is who we are all we can find is what the universe has given us – our morality, our drive to live one more day.

And so, do what you want. The universe has us, and owes us nothing. Most of the people we meet don't tend to think in those terms I propose we do what we can to end suffering. , starting with its worst forms We will not succeed. but we will live, So what.

What politics gives us

It is almost foolish to argue directly with culture. To solve a cultural problem within a generation, or even within a lifetime, is a daunting task. Perhaps our challenge, then, is how to use culture to our advantage, to flip a situation.

Perhaps hard, cultural problems can be addressed through our moral foundations, helping us move forward.

An idea must be accepted locally if it is to become a long-term change, but it does not need to begin there. The government can use our moral foundation of authority to help an idea take root. Yet, the path taken by our government is an unsteady, sometimes backwards one.

Out of a frustration with the government, apolitical movements are born. We try to ignore the authority of the government, but we will set up a new authority, as it is our moral nature as people, and nothing has changed.

Being apolitical in itself is not wrong, but it might be helpful to recognize the authority dynamics that are taking place, and what process rules the group. That is, when we form a group, we need to ask ourselves, what is driving the culture? How is the culture defined, and under what authority?

It is important to understand what politics gives us – moral authority – and how it operates, depending on the system of government. I suggest that without a moral authority in place in our groups, nothing can happen.

To explore this idea of authority, think of policies. What do policies do for our companies? They try to communicate what's important to our leaders, what our priorities are. Without them, a smart individual can get by, even flourish, but a group without a policy slowly becomes bogged down with the overhead of getting on the same page, so to speak.

Getting on the same page requires a finding a common authority, whoever or whatever that may be.

To explore this idea further, replace "government" with "religion," above.