Dec 13, 2022Liked by THE CROW IS A MESSENGER, NEVERMORE MEDIA
The indisputable truth I find most compelling in your essay is the following. Perhaps it is not "objective" in the narrow sense, but certainly I would call it "essential":
"We need to stop focusing on our differences and focus on what we have in common. We are all human beings, part of the Great Circle of Life, and we can choose to create a different type of reality if we so choose. If our rulers want to divide and conquer us, we should respond with a conscious effort to unify and ally ourselves with one another, on the basis of shared interest as well as altruism. This is what I can enlightened self-interest. We are happy and better off when the people around us are happy, healthy, and prosperous. Let us never forget that what we want is a more joyful world."
"I would define essence as: the defining quality of a thing, especially of an idea."
Now that reminds me of Robert Pirsig who spent his entire life trying to define "quality" and failed. Try not to walk into that trap, some things are best left undefined.
Yet all good people understand and recognise quality. But I wonder, do the illuminated evil bastards for who "truth does not matter" perceive quality the way we do?
Wow..that’s a lot of words saying “not to much” reminds me of my psych days 60 yrs ago...I think I’m on the wrong bus🤓
The indisputable truth I find most compelling in your essay is the following. Perhaps it is not "objective" in the narrow sense, but certainly I would call it "essential":
"We need to stop focusing on our differences and focus on what we have in common. We are all human beings, part of the Great Circle of Life, and we can choose to create a different type of reality if we so choose. If our rulers want to divide and conquer us, we should respond with a conscious effort to unify and ally ourselves with one another, on the basis of shared interest as well as altruism. This is what I can enlightened self-interest. We are happy and better off when the people around us are happy, healthy, and prosperous. Let us never forget that what we want is a more joyful world."
"I would define essence as: the defining quality of a thing, especially of an idea."
Now that reminds me of Robert Pirsig who spent his entire life trying to define "quality" and failed. Try not to walk into that trap, some things are best left undefined.
Yet all good people understand and recognise quality. But I wonder, do the illuminated evil bastards for who "truth does not matter" perceive quality the way we do?