" ... due to the dueling forces in the human psyche of authoritarian vs. egalitarian sentiments." - Glen Brunner. Thanks for sharing such a concise and thought-provoking analysis.
Human nature is infinitely complex and expanding exponentially, much like the universe itself -- staggering proportions, astonishingly violent, forever unknowab…
" ... due to the dueling forces in the human psyche of authoritarian vs. egalitarian sentiments." - Glen Brunner. Thanks for sharing such a concise and thought-provoking analysis.
Human nature is infinitely complex and expanding exponentially, much like the universe itself -- staggering proportions, astonishingly violent, forever unknowable, opposing forces of gravity and energy that somehow have produced the most delicate yet tenacious of all things: life! Our very existence is the deepest (and most wonderful) of mysteries.
...And death, our constant companion, the flip side. But when we're alive, why not just give in to it fully, the energy flowing all around us, the "brighter future" that's here right now, this instant, if we would only pull back the curtain in our minds, individually and collectively? The possibilities are endless.
Maybe it just takes about eighty years for Homo sapiens to come to the big forks in the long road of evolution: psychologically, to either follow the path of death or take a chance with life, a risky gamble to say the least. But really, that choice is also our constant companion.
One of my favorite bumper stickers is an image of Buddha that says, "Let that shit go." Another one is, "I'm going to hell in every religion." (The latter has nothing to do with anything -- just thought it was funny }:--))
" ... due to the dueling forces in the human psyche of authoritarian vs. egalitarian sentiments." - Glen Brunner. Thanks for sharing such a concise and thought-provoking analysis.
Human nature is infinitely complex and expanding exponentially, much like the universe itself -- staggering proportions, astonishingly violent, forever unknowable, opposing forces of gravity and energy that somehow have produced the most delicate yet tenacious of all things: life! Our very existence is the deepest (and most wonderful) of mysteries.
...And death, our constant companion, the flip side. But when we're alive, why not just give in to it fully, the energy flowing all around us, the "brighter future" that's here right now, this instant, if we would only pull back the curtain in our minds, individually and collectively? The possibilities are endless.
Maybe it just takes about eighty years for Homo sapiens to come to the big forks in the long road of evolution: psychologically, to either follow the path of death or take a chance with life, a risky gamble to say the least. But really, that choice is also our constant companion.
One of my favorite bumper stickers is an image of Buddha that says, "Let that shit go." Another one is, "I'm going to hell in every religion." (The latter has nothing to do with anything -- just thought it was funny }:--))