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| We first must choose our Values |
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I am always amazed by the notion that the "Path of Change" [social or biological] is following along a course that one can prejudge as acceptable or unacceptable, as if there is a preordained 'right way'. All things are random within settings that do not violate the forces of matter & energy. There is no preconceived 'Right Outcome'.
We are Sentient Beings and each can make choices about behavior and values . Even so. the random dynamics of the Universe itself can make all those choices & values mute in a wink of time. The number of close calls the survival of life has endured over the passage of geological time should convince us of the fact that we live in the Now.
We can make rational choices based on our ability to understand some of the objective reality of the "NOW". We must also understand that other Sentient Beings can and will make other choices that are in conflict with choices we make.
My posts are mainly written about choices that I have made. They are often a call to action for others who have made similar choices. It carry's no authority outside of ourselves and our actions. It is the very essence of Free Will and the ability to influence the environment in which we live. I advocate for no absolutes. I advocate instead for a Human Community that values cooperative action as highly as it values competitive action.
The survival of any Human Community over time depends in large part on how broadly and how inclusive it is to the members that make up the Community. It depends on sufficient food, adequate shelter, effective medical care and life skills training for every citizen with no regard for his economic status.
This post illustrates the inclusiveness that I choose to honor. It is a promotion of exercising the imperatives of democratic action in a cooperative community. It has nothing to do with a natural curve of progress. It is predicated on the principal making choices and adopting values. The sustainment of those values is effected by our individual & collective willingness to promote the establishment those values as the "conventional Wisdom" that motivated how we grow as a Community.
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