Chaos needs to be universally accepted as the global current, in order to organise acceptable ways out of it. That probably won’t be as easy as many ‘want’. It is true, in my opinion made strong by my observations that, we all ‘need’ to build determination, fortitude, strengths, and better understandings of any part we play in causing or maintaining chaos. This in order, to accommodate recognition of our own personal duty in life as it is among others very much alive, and so expose our ability or inability to display better organisation of the ways forward and out of chaos. Not backwards, sideways or any other ways but forwards onto whatever is not causing chaos for others and or our selves.
I suggest all ‘wants’ be ‘parked’ in order for all ‘needs’ to be met. At the very least until all ‘needs’ are honestly recognised and catered better for, for inclusion into better options of better freedoms to choose from.
Tolerance of ‘wants’ ‘needs’ to take stock of the costly price of the intolerant ‘wants’ of those who have no desire to know what chaos, destruction, ‘needs’ and harm, their own ‘wants’ or indeed, unjustifiable to the sane mind, ‘demands’ directly and indirectly, cause others.
It is apparent, to me, that many justify their ‘wants’ by declaring that they are not responsible for the birth and life choices of others. Might I suggest that, each one of us more honestly and seriously consider that all ‘others’ are not responsible, nor necessarily desiring our own birth and life choices? Yet here we all are, in our societies and communities. Has one’s own choice adversely reduced anothers’ options and forced upon them, no true free and palatable options to choose from? This while flaunting many self advantages that were handed on a silver platter via ignorance and generally unjustifiable, harmful desires and thoughtless wants.
All very well saying love is the answer, when love of situations or activities that, albeit often unwittingly, cause chaos, are destroying this planet and all on it, without exception, some, more eventually destroyed than others.
Complacency about this is positively and ignorantly encouraged. It is currently being done by those intolerant of opposing observations and opinions.
There are still isolated beauty spots, abundant in things for a few to enjoy and things that assist a few in their own life’s and advantaged lifestyles. Those places maintained doggedly, regardless of the costs, much of it shifted to the sacrifices of and choices for, any fair and justified lifestyle of ‘others’. Many of those places are captured by profiteers and their fellows. They now exist only for a few to enjoy without thought of those involuntarily made to sacrifice their own life or the life of loved ones. Often in same dogged arrogance, many are refused the free options of the profiteers and those they favour. Most of those profiteering and their favoured, are protected by hateful or worse, murderous thoughts, backed by threat of weaponry use, proven by design, manufacture and use of weapons, at even more cost to life. How is that acceptable? How is that right? Control of those places and weapons is passed from one generation to another or, from one kindred ‘type’ of person to another. How is that not gross ignorance and denial of harmful intent? How did those attitudes even develop beyond passing, then dismissed as wrong, thoughts?
The desire to carry on, as has been done before, simply because it has been done before, is not conducive to true progress.
The way of ignorance is harmful. The encouragement of ignorance is evil. The dissipation of ignorance depends on realisation of it and desire to overcome it and yes, overwhelm it with better understandings of a fuller nature. Importantly, with diligence and honesty about universally acceptable aspects of minds. With positive, purposeful encouragement and development of truer, thoughtful, purposeful, caring natures. A capacity the brain of man and woman has but, little uses to benefit this planet and all on it. The situation we are in tends to prove my points. Is it possible to do so without stirring emotions? I think not but, to then use emotions to advantage the doers of wrongs? Hmmm…to me, that is certainly wrong added to wrong and has seemed to become a habit or worse a demand of and among the wrong doing advantaged, in all classes and communities of all our societies.
Of course there’s unpalatable content for many, in the truth and works involved in applying all that is universally considered rightly justifiable. At present we have justifiable as defined by a few, who themselves are not behaving in a manner that they could justify to most who are, let’s be honest, not in as privileged, or as advantaged positions. Positive actions and, encouragement of actions in the direction of dissipating the harm caused by ignorance, gives birth to better understandings and then contributes to positive promotions of them. A little emotional or physical discomfort along the way is nothing compared to the horrendous harms and involuntary sacrifices already endured and imposed, actually forced unjustly, upon far too many persons and places and, other inhabitants abroad on this planet.
While there is still natural beauty and treasures in this world, man ‘wants’ but doesn’t ‘need’ to practice or invite avarice. He doesn’t ‘need’ to covet, invade or destroy anyone or any thing. Man doesn’t ‘need’ then to ignore the destruction he causes by his actions. Which directly and indirectly harms natural beauty elsewhere and kind people in his own midst and elsewhere. Making those beauties and kind people a rare or unusual sight and encounter.
The sorrow I feel is that there seems to be acceptance, indeed much global leadership encouraging others to ignore and, are giving endorsement as well, by example of ignoring that which leading man or woman plans to destroy and to cause destruction of. As much as ignoring what has already been destroyed. As long as it isn’t in their immediate vicinity or, is for their own luxuriating or profit. To deny others the freedom of their reasonable options, for the sake of that, is without doubt in my mind, obscene.
Man too often uses insistence on forgiveness. whether or not he truly applies, believes in or, fully understands true forgiveness himself. Often planting insistence that in order to apply forgiveness, others must apply belief in his belief or ideal god or gods, if not truly believing or fully knowing about that himself. Always accommodating that harm is acceptable to that man because of his own forgiveness insistence. He then doesn’t purposely practice behaviour that doesn’t need forgiveness, as his norm. That the “Judgements of God” or “plan of god” are known or shall be revealed…later…or “Karma” will deal with it seems to excuse the lack of proper purposeful considerations and actions towards not ‘needing’ forgiveness from any. These doctrines have consistently with persistence, excused many harmful actions by persons in much need of attitude change and some are unforgivable in their repetition of harmful actions or intention to harm. There is also unspoken (perhaps only hinted at or whispered) neglect of personal duty to selves, personal duty and responsibility to others. Which has, by my observations, unjustifiably self-elevated some men and women into situations they and their fellows alone, believe to be justified. Yet, they display scant or no proof, or respect of the justification necessary to understood, agree and then respect their status, from those affected ‘others’.
This has become rife among work and business places, the same neglect and widespread ignorance of jobs. Too many job titles belie the actual works done under such titles. Many works have become harmful in unacceptable manner. Other works undervalued even though they’re essentially vital for life to be ‘easier’ and more convenient for everyone. Leaders seem to question the discontentment, often belittling it and the persons who feel the effects of, in my opinion, their own truly unjustifiable behaviour and actions. Instead of dealing properly and appropriately with it, they allow it to divide entire communities or societies and then profit from it, causing even more destruction, discontentment and harm.
Those volunteering their knowledge to assist in the true healing and non chaotic or divisive organisation procedures necessary now, are mercilessly harassed, mocked, persecuted and too often ruined. Then, born of ignored and unbroken habitual ‘want’, harmful actions are further denied or ignored, in order to continue to pursue and add to, the profitable chaos which is a result of ignorance and mindless, harmful desires for thoughtless profiteering. Profiteering not just of monetary gain but of ‘preferred’ idealistic, ways of life that already have blatantly disadvantaged and worse, made sacrifices of the actual lives, of others. This accommodated by establishments and their preferred, costly, established, exclusive to them, education systems.
I love that you will, possibly, consider my words applicable food for your thoughts and thoughts for those you personally birthed. I believe that, as long as we think in the earnest belief we can improve life, perhaps not only ours, we will at least gain better understandings that improve our own attitudes and the frankly necessary freedoms in life, for others. Perhaps gaining less tolerance of the intolerable attitudes of closed and, ignorantly established as justified, minds.
It is positive and possible though not necessarily easy, to at least make a beginning, to understand the consequences, there are many, both good and, I’m sad to say, horrendous, of our own life and lifestyles, on others. Many have found no justifiable reason to tolerate our ignorant ‘wants’ that, no doubt overshadow and contribute to the dire and not so dire ‘needs’ of others.
Unacceptably destructive ways are something I cannot endorse, yet, am surely guilty of indirectly, if not directly contributing to, just by buying clothing or food that I don’t know the true source of but have trusted sellers to do nothing immoral or unethical. It has been proven to be, misplaced trust. This, while living my own physically ‘disabled’ life, having my own ‘needs’ both physical and of a mental health nature. I have few freedoms or options available to me, that my fellow citizens, with able bodies and minds have…in this England. With today’s communication outlets, flaunting it’s ill-gotten wealth and harmful expectations about it’s own, costly to others, lifestyle. Rife with complacent attitudes towards arrogant assumptions, harms, involuntary sacrifices and, often it seems to me, deliberate misleading or misunderstandings, at point of and thereafter from, birth. Then, added to by compliant, some blatant, lies to selves and from others as well as those in leading positions that it beggars belief in me and, on a daily basis shocks if not, surprises me. I hope for changes in leadership, either in their own attitudes and behaviours or, from people who can grasp the concepts of changes for betterment of our ruined reputations and thoughtless behaviours, because I alone have no power to change my options. Options previously established though limited, imposed on me by leaders and their supporters. All allowing wrongful profiteering to ruin responsible provision of product and services. I do write emails to relevant authorities in moments my disabilities don’t prevent it.
Revelations of truths may not always be ‘wanted’ but they are ‘needed’ in order to progress in truthful and best manner. I constantly attempt to discern between want and need.
Maybe you could too. When asking your child what they ‘want’ as a gift, to wear or for food to eat, remember to disclose the consequences of their object of desire. Which if you don’t know, needs to be disclosed at point of purchase or discovered. Do our desires incur harm or unjustifiable sacrifices of freedoms on and options of others? Perhaps change one word in the question from ‘want’ to ‘need’. For example, “what do you need for your birthday?” Then as the providing adult find sustainable options for their needs before asking, “what of these options, would you like to eat?” It is a thing I believe we can begin to make widespread, by practicing it our selves. It doesn’t happen overnight but it really should to prevent any more harm. When we begin asking ourselves what we and others truly need, things begin to change for better understandings, in our selves and among those who love us, if not immediate betterment of harsh worldly situations. All dependent on the sense of urgency to change any imposed situation brought about by our own truly unjustifiable ideals and wants. As long as we don’t want to keep ourselves in ignorant enjoyment and profit by imposing unnecessary suffering on others, we are an improvement on when we didn’t care or notice. I observe and understand there are many habitually harmful behaviours to recognise and then purposefully stop. That, I believe will be a huge contribution to the beginning of the organisation of ways out of the chaotic and often deadly situations, prevalent on this Earth.
Some things to consider there. Cheerio, with love and best wishes on your quest for harming less by betterment of self and those you might birth.
Whether that be the birth of more truth, widely justifiable and practicable ideas or, birthing good hearted persons, honest and purposefully considerate of other persons, already living near or far, with practicable ideas of their own.
Good luck!
R.A.S. May 28th 2020
Ruth’s Place 