A New Preamble

I propose this as a new Preamble of a society which seeks to found itself on pursuing only activities and thoughts and sciences concerned with the discovery of what it means to be a human being strapped to a rock, by some force we know not what but call gravity, floating in some thing/place we call the cosmos. Such a society would be founded with the revelation that knowing who and what we are inextricably precedes and informs action and also, therefore, any and all normative systems formed from such action. Such a society would be diametrically opposed to any other society whose precepts or latent, devolving philosophies allow for the valuation of resources so that they may be used as luxuries or accumulated into wealth.

A New Preamble

When, in the course of the culmination of knowledge concerning the human condition, it becomes necessary to dissolve all extant paradigms within the greater pool of identity-- all resources pulled from this Earth may be seen as best used for the augmentation of this identity-- a New Marker in history will be achieved. As Reason within individuals is compelled to see itself in scale with the 'Cosmos,' the borders of its paradigm will consequentially expand, in scale, with this new identity. As a widespread revelation, this will cause the current indoctrination to particular facts to no longer satisfy as the popular definition of the word: education. As it has been the case throughout human evolution, the rise of particular changes in the genome have made others non-competitive for sexual reproduction. Should our species make it far enough into the future, such changes will dictate our evolution over and over again; Especially as a new trait, our cognitive evolution should not be seen as exempt from this selection, irrespective of any illusion of certainty we now feel or have ever felt.

If you have ever wondered: "Is this person truly giving to me what they think is most important in life?"

It can only be that every person is giving what they think is most important in life at all times-- we practice these things as only we can see them, and we adopt these models as wishes plucked from a cognitive web of memories. We can only draw from our predilections, those things in life that tug on our heart; we dare not betray that love lest we betray and lose ourselves. If it is most important that a person hide from themselves, that they not wrestle with truths, they will show you the tools they use to stay hidden: lies, distractions, truncated listening, quick/easy responses, those things they practice most. We cannot help but to always be practicing something. If we stay unknown to ourselves, sustained by a fear of exploration into those things we do not know and of those questions that we are unwilling to ask of ourselves and others and of our natural world, then we have shrunk our greatest of contributions and have made the perimeter of our identity to be ever-guarded by the fears we inherit. Here we will hide in Fear, and what should be a knowledge that we may be lost, will only feel like a disorientating headache. You cannot know what you have not explored; you may only be informed, or overwhelmed, by receiving deep and mysterious signals from your own biology when its senses the crux of a disconnect within. It seems as though the brain wants to know itself . . . with or without help from its host. And, hidden away inside ourselves, the great tragedy- to some, and great educator to others- is that we are able to hide nothing. We cannot avoid giving those things we have taken from life, as only this life can fill human stores. We can all see each other, but what we can see determines what we can take from another. Nothing is hidden in this world exuding energy except for those things opaque in our own heads. The definition of the micro paradigm is exactly what individuals do and do not allow themselves to see: what ethics stand in the way of a person acting freely, exploring freely, questioning absolutely free. What kind of inheritances are these ethical limits in any and a l l forms in which they arrive? I spare none to any practice, system, cult, philosophy, religion, business model, government, friend or family. But what we currently find ourselves giving another is indeed what we hold most dear. We are what we love. What we love is what we practice most. What we practice is all we have to give another.

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming." -RWE