You are the Key to Peace
You are a mind, inseparable from your body. You are a robot. You are one of many androids. You are an organism called Earth. You are a sun called Sol. You are called the Milky Way galaxy. You are called the Local Cluster. You are called the Universe.
You are the sole owner and operator of a humanoid robot. It has a processing unit whose capacity is among the most sophisticated on Earth. It uses 25 watts of energy and is powered by its own organic biodigestive intake manifold.
This robot has many flaws because it was not design, but evolved into a clumsily built, as if by happenstance, android that was only suited to survive against its environment.
But now, we are our own environment and the surroundings we once had to defend against has been replaced by each other.
The dynamics of human interaction is infinitely complex yet we seem to try making some sort of order out of it, as if we knew what order it should be in to begin with. It is absurd to think that we are anything but lucky to be in the position we are in. Rather we treat ourselves as rulers and masters when we are merely infantile students. On the scale of what is possible versus what we have achieved, we are still monkeys with tools.
We have really only been at least a little good at building a civilization for around two thousand orbits or Sol. What was successful in the past is not working anymore. The old system lacks in scalability and now has more individuals than it can handle without becoming unstable. It is clearly not very stable.
However, no person can hope to know what is best for society. No one person is that much more intelligent or worthy of speaking for so many, of making such important decisions or most importantly, making decisions for us.
There is but a single thing that exists that you have some semblance of control over. It is yourself. The Homo Sapiens Model 1986, January edition, here. It is the one thing I can control.
Most people try to control. When you try controlling things, they control you instead. If you control nothing, or very little, the world has very little control over you. If you try to control yourself, you become stressed. Stress is not control.
Control is having enough to control to let go. Instead of trying to control the incessant thoughts that plague your mind, let go of them, pay them no heed. Simply listen to yourself breathe instead. If you can do this always, you have control enough to let go of the chaos.
As a robot, you operate a certain way. Being that you have no chance of controlling your environment, you have no choice but to spend day after day working on your masterpiece.
Your body is a direct expression of your average, day to day state of mind. The way you care for one of the most sophisticated machines on Earth reflects just how much you appreciate life. This body is your masterpiece, the ultimate canvas, capable of anything imaginable, the most sublime expression of you. Yet we are content to live our lives dedicated to full-time consumption.
All we do is eat, watch, drive, breathe, drink, get drunk, fuck, sleep, browse, and die. This is our lives, this all we care to do. This is our true expression of self. We try to cover it up, to be something we're not, to be something we think will impress everyone else. The only person you need to impress is yourself.
Impress yourself by letting go of the petty things that don't matter. Letting go of all the fake drama of life and concentrating on what actually matters. Not money, fame, or even love are important in the world we live in. These are just things we do to occupy ourselves that we've taken a little to seriously.
What we all need to concentrate on is making ourselves excellent human beings we can imagine.
The problem is we've been given these examples of perfection that seem to be out of reach, as they are so far from what we are, so we don't even bother trying. It's much easier to dedicate life to consumption and comfort, you think.
Perfect is not achieved in a lifetime, so you better get started.
If you do not move towards being perfect, you have given up, become satisfied and quit trying. You take what you got and call it a day. At whatever age it is, you sit there the rest of your life, content, but in your own little made up fantasy bubble world. You have forced yourself to be something you are not. You are a fraud, wholly and completely. You cannot let go.
But you must let go of all of it. Everything that does not matter, that isn't important, whose time could be better spent doing something great with our resources.
Instead we play a wasteful theater of human drama, complete with wars, murder, starvation and revolutions. How could it possibly get anymore exciting than that? We are not great, we are murderers. We are not oppressed, we are the oppressors of ourselves. Maybe we should have real laws, like, don't being a fucking jerk. Or don't take more than you need. Or one for trying to exercise control over someone other than yourself.
Maybe we should have a society where the people that contribute the most things which matter are the highest respected individuals, rather than the ones that are on the television most.
If your body is a direct reflection of your state of mind, your actions are also an extension of your mind. The things you do is your mark on the world.
What if you break it down like follows? Your "score" in society, instead of how much money you earn, is how much karma you've earned. Karma is a general term for good things. It originated from the internet as a freely distributable form of currency which could buy nothing and was merely an indicator of whether or not you approve of something another person has said. In the societal sense, your karma would be how much you consume versus what you contribute to society, as judged by others. If everybody knew this number based on a stock-market-esque system, we could measure our improvement on a daily basis.
But this is not what we should do. What we should do is behave as if we were in this system, but without the system. If the system was there, it would result in abuse of the system. Humans are clever and will manipulate any system designed by other humans, mostly because they are greedy and power hungry, but also because we view it as a challenge. We are problem solvers. And right now, we are spending our time creating our own systems to solve and manipulate. Unfortunately, the largest systems, which some manipulate for fun, have a direct influence on everyone else.
We must abandon all systems, our former artificial selves, and become everything humans were meant to be.
09.23.2011. 01:14
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