I had pondered long on what to write for this particular post. Finally, it hits me. Why not write about the situation that humanity is facing today. Yes, that will be a good topic to write about.
So, here goes:
(1) Intelligence: (a) the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason; (b) : the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests)
(2) Conscience: the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good
(3) Wisdom: (a) characterized by wisdom : marked by deep understanding, keen discernment, and a capacity for sound judgment; (b) exercising or showing sound judgment.
Wisdom is intelligence informed by conscience.
There are only two types of people in this world, namely:
(1) People with a conscience.
(2) People without a conscience.
Only the first type of people could gain wisdom, if they worked at it.
The second type of people do not and will not have any wisdom. Now, if only more people will see humanity in this way.
No, we can't choose which type we are while we are already born into this world. Either a person has it or they don't.
The first group- people with conscience- do not follow anyone. They follow only their conscience.
But there's another social phenomena that the second type of people, those with power, creates. Followers of their psychopathic traits and personality. Authoritarian Followers may have a conscience but they need to find it in themselves. And no other person can help them on this.
Albert Einstein once said, "a foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." No where is this statement more true today when society has been enmeshed in a big matrix of lies that surrounds us everywhere..
We elect the worst among ourselves because we want to deny the painful truth, we like to not get involve or god forbids be accountable for our actions, we love the comfort that life seems to provide in our insulated existence.
And who is to blame for this? Yes, the person who stares at me every time i looked into the mirror.
In short, we don't much like responsibility and so in our collective irresponsibility the world has become as it is today.
Electing someone else to solve my problems is only an excuse to avoid solving them myself. It is just an excuse to avoid facing myself. If every one can acknowledge the truth of this, then perhaps the world will become a better place to lived in.
But there is a problem. The world has become as it is today because we do not understand this truth. The time is getting late to change this. Maybe it is even too late to change anything now.
Perhaps we are born into a certain age to learn certain lessons.
Perhaps we are born into this age to learn about basal pleasures, greed, and the accompanying pain that must come from them.
A buddhist teaching i used to follow mentioned this is the age of the "Latter Day of the Law". Reading Silber's account of man's inhumanity to another human is heart-rending, to say the least.
To know that these cruelties do happened and they happened in other parts of the world does not me feel better that it doesn't happen here. The totality of this human tragedy could never be grasped by you and me who are not suffering the pain of this existence.
It could have easily happen here but for some twist of fate. It is just that this country does not have the kind of resources that is coveted by the aggressors. Or it is easily a little luck that played a role in where i am born.
Yes, for those of us who are not part of the elite, just ordinary,decent people, we have to live our lives in an almost constant state of desperation.
What we called 'good times' is when we are not trampled underfoot by the boot of injustice, war and poverty in our little corner of the world. Other people's suffering are not a concern of you and me. They are just having a bad day perhaps.
We have lost our respect for the natural law of the universe and instead follow man-made laws that are not only unjust but barbaric.
Truth is going to catch up with us sooner than we think. But have we prepare ourselves for it? More importantly, have we prepare our next generation for it?
i am no wise man. But how could anyone be in a world that has gone mad.
The day will never come when we ask ourselves "why the fuck are we even here today?"
So be it.
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