Put In the Effort Here (to the end of Two)
I. One.
It's time to take an interest in our children's world down the line, our "legacy" it's been called. Why is the doing of things for virtue/integrity {questioning ourselves on the path we are living, and then acting according to those truths which are revealed}, for lasting good of this world {donating/dedicating our time and assets to environment, to justice, to addressing suffering}, for restraining gluttonous indulgences {not lackadaisically filling and let fill all of the spaces, gaps for humanity, and life-energy on gadgets, trash-media-reality-tv on the couch} and all those "for our community" acts such a foreign concept for more and more of us newbies to the working world in the 21st century? Is it because the average life span has been pushed farther down, so now during the working/running the world twenties and thirties we still feel entitled to role of kid, death being so far off, mortality a thing of those "elderly folks, not I," and so the thought of what happens to planet earth after you are gone is a thought that has not occurred, has not received weight, not yet been electric shocked to a reality, life is too busy for that.
But we are running things and will be more so 10 years from now, as new people retire, die, new people come in fresh. And we lead the world, we lead these fresh young people--in which way? And pretty soon, our kids, and theirs, and which world, crisis, cool?
II. Two.
The more you know all the different ways and how you fit into this world and it sees you, the more agency and willingness to act as a participant more than an observer. The first-day employee always goes in there timid, wondering what the bosses and those already there think of him, trying to frame himself, what shoes am I filling, gosh I have no business saying my piece yet, changing things, deciding, opining.
How can one have confidence to get in there make a difference--as any other of the quadzillion changes in time have come about: by people going in there to make the difference--more than simply claiming to act as a keen observer, and only so, if one is first of all not sure yet how he fits into his own picture, how others receive him? How could anyone ever say any opinion or advocate in confidence, because a probable threat is always a retaliatory question of: Well, what about yourself, who are you? Personal, a life in this world: One must go back to roots, extricate the stalk, dig it out, examine--since one has never seen roots because they were always in the ground--, sniff, lick, taste, feel, so as to know what the roots are, and then one can bury them back patly, and proceed on forward finally in life without having some threat of someone cross-examining you and being humiliated to pieces since if I don't know myself academically, historically, personally, how did I claim to opine about something/someone else? because then you will finally know you more than anyone in the world, as it should be, and it'd be a strength to go on to external topics.
That is why minority (discrimiated races; gender; sexual orientation; historical underdogs) movements are so often termed "empowerment" processes.
If a dominant group wanted to effectively subjugate another group perpetually, one strategy would be keep the subjugated group guessing on how to frame themselves, muddle the minority's history, continually confuse the subjugated persons on how others perceive them. Flip side: understand where the different pieces of you came from and where you stand in the narrative of things (not to say obide by them), and you move forward with traction of confidence and force in knowing what you are meant to do by your gut, and having the foundation to do so.
It's time to take an interest in our children's world down the line, our "legacy" it's been called. Why is the doing of things for virtue/integrity {questioning ourselves on the path we are living, and then acting according to those truths which are revealed}, for lasting good of this world {donating/dedicating our time and assets to environment, to justice, to addressing suffering}, for restraining gluttonous indulgences {not lackadaisically filling and let fill all of the spaces, gaps for humanity, and life-energy on gadgets, trash-media-reality-tv on the couch} and all those "for our community" acts such a foreign concept for more and more of us newbies to the working world in the 21st century? Is it because the average life span has been pushed farther down, so now during the working/running the world twenties and thirties we still feel entitled to role of kid, death being so far off, mortality a thing of those "elderly folks, not I," and so the thought of what happens to planet earth after you are gone is a thought that has not occurred, has not received weight, not yet been electric shocked to a reality, life is too busy for that.
But we are running things and will be more so 10 years from now, as new people retire, die, new people come in fresh. And we lead the world, we lead these fresh young people--in which way? And pretty soon, our kids, and theirs, and which world, crisis, cool?
II. Two.
The more you know all the different ways and how you fit into this world and it sees you, the more agency and willingness to act as a participant more than an observer. The first-day employee always goes in there timid, wondering what the bosses and those already there think of him, trying to frame himself, what shoes am I filling, gosh I have no business saying my piece yet, changing things, deciding, opining.
How can one have confidence to get in there make a difference--as any other of the quadzillion changes in time have come about: by people going in there to make the difference--more than simply claiming to act as a keen observer, and only so, if one is first of all not sure yet how he fits into his own picture, how others receive him? How could anyone ever say any opinion or advocate in confidence, because a probable threat is always a retaliatory question of: Well, what about yourself, who are you? Personal, a life in this world: One must go back to roots, extricate the stalk, dig it out, examine--since one has never seen roots because they were always in the ground--, sniff, lick, taste, feel, so as to know what the roots are, and then one can bury them back patly, and proceed on forward finally in life without having some threat of someone cross-examining you and being humiliated to pieces since if I don't know myself academically, historically, personally, how did I claim to opine about something/someone else? because then you will finally know you more than anyone in the world, as it should be, and it'd be a strength to go on to external topics.
That is why minority (discrimiated races; gender; sexual orientation; historical underdogs) movements are so often termed "empowerment" processes.
If a dominant group wanted to effectively subjugate another group perpetually, one strategy would be keep the subjugated group guessing on how to frame themselves, muddle the minority's history, continually confuse the subjugated persons on how others perceive them. Flip side: understand where the different pieces of you came from and where you stand in the narrative of things (not to say obide by them), and you move forward with traction of confidence and force in knowing what you are meant to do by your gut, and having the foundation to do so.
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