Transient
There was it
Again
Growing in me
Distracting me
As if
Warming up my body
The dove wanders
Comes closer
Upon the connection
Too close
Thought is in the way
Connecting the dots
He wanders always in his mind. When walking the same path, the arrogant does not move away. We collide. Thinking long and deep for the way to revenge defeats me many times. Then in a brave spurt I follow him. Quickly start in his opposite direction, then I do not move away. We collide. Planned revenge.
When rationality has no answers, social dominance has power. And the powerful, never has enough, is always taking. The social dominant invests less in knowledge and thereby tries to starve it. Starving and weak we fight with the sword of science. But if philosophy of science itself sees sciences as a belief system, then dominance takes over the discussion. When the light of relativity hits the facts of science it reveals its hollow inside. As hollow as that social dominance. Intellect is losing it’s playing field and we see change coming up.
Society is in evolution. Social media takes part. Social dominance is getting traction again, freeing itself from its ban by the rational. Rationality starts losing our attention now. No bite sized facts have the colour to attracts us any longer. Those lines of code that translate to the internet of things do. The have the magnetism to attract our eyes and our mind so much that we can not help but bump into our fellow humans in the street. The technology that fits perfectly in our hand and starts using the science of psychology to make us into the severely addicted. There is a new player in the field. I want to scream this out loud.
Are we blind? Even the people that break loose for a moment or two, get sucked in by that force again. That is it! No more social dominance, no more intellectual dominance. Now power lies with that invisible force that we have helped creating, that we clearly feel, that we gossip about and where we speculate about its future. If we can even call it ‘IT’. Pun intended. Break lose!
Help yourself first. Then those sitting next to you. That slide into water after opening the emergency exit will surely kill ‘it’ for a while. But the who is to save us? We are part of a system now, so big, so dynamic and powerful, it has started to be an organism in itself. And we can CHANGE. Again. Keep changing. There Obama would certainly agree that buddhism is still relevant. Change. Awareness of impermanence. Giving discipline to both mind and feeling. Then peace is what is left.
It grasps me
Weak as I am
We obey to it
Weak as we are
One wanders in confusion
Confused as one is
As lost as that force
That does all this
Good as it feels
Unreal as it is
Erupts
When uncontrolled
Fertile may it seem
For that seeker of power
Evolves to be good
Continuity arises
When the humble strongmen retreats.
What are we working against where we find our value? And where does this uncontrollable force finds it’s value? We ourselves steer away for that in which we suffer and we call it beauty, truth and values. It this force suffering? It must have a lead. Steering away from the suffering, leading us somewhere anew. To where it’s own values lie.
Could it survive, and thus evolve, if we remove ourselves from the equation? Will it still thrive? For now: no. We need each other. Like the flower and the bee need each other. We know this know, we feel it too. So we must be one step ahead. One step a phenomenon like this can not reach yet, the fact that we are aware of the problem. ‘It’ can not. Can it? We are still thinking within the human frame of knowledge now and can not judge on this, like we can at this point not judge what another organism is experiencing. Subjectivity is one major struggle never to be overcome by the rational human. Still no answer.
Let’s watch it evolve.