We ourselves must walk the path
These days the world is exposed, like a nerve, to a series of harsh truths, that nothing is permanent, there is no certainty, our governments are mostly formed by the “old” and the “blind” and that our democracies are deeply corrupted by demagogy. Of course not all truths are equal or even deserve to be placed in that same sentence, but their validity remains the same and here will serve as base for a lesson that I consider to be important for the years to follow.
Our brain wants to live in a world of certainties and of safety, thus he takes the elements from our life that have been there for a long time and considers them as universal truths or at least as rights. And this is one of our greatest sin that we all are guilty of but by no fault of our own and I believe the source of all our modern troubles. We believe that our way of life is a right that somehow the universe itself should be obliged to respect, that is not just an illusion that we created for ourselves to feel safe and most of the time not worry for the next day. However we have no universal right, only that which we can give to next person and hopefully the chain will lead back to you. It strikes a remarkably similarity with today’s issue of wearing a mask when in closed spaces, we do that to protect the others and if they do the same, protect you. This respect and trust in others is severely missing from our communities mainly because almost all governments have proved for a long time that are incapable of making good decisions that will carry their value and validity over time and not just short term ones to please the citizens and allow them to rule a little bit longer. This is just an effect of a wrongly created democratic system that is based on a trust and respect that no one is willing to give, we want to live in the illusion of safety and the elected are more than willing to provide it, that is until they cannot, welcome to the present.
This illusion breaking is actually the norm in our history, when the leaders cannot provide the safety that they promised a revolutionary movement starts to gain traction in the hope that they will be able to create a new system better than the last, but nevertheless doomed to fail, a new tick in the cycle of ignorance. The good news is that we live in the age of information where we have a broader view of that past and the present than never before and this should in theory allow us to create a better model of our world that we can use the make remarkable decisions by predicting their effects and make true long term decisions, a “golden path” if you may. This time there should be a revolution of the mind and of the soul, to claim a freedom that we already have:
“the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” — Viktor Frankl
Thank you for your time!
