Rise above

Rise above

Humanity is Nature's attempt to rise above the sordid details of earlier forms of life.  

    We know it.  We know what it means to rise above.  We sought noble qualities long ago.  We put words to them but it takes more than that.  We just didn't know how to get there.  

    It's not something to pursue.  It is a state of mind, just like retaining the noble qualities.  It's not an intellectual pursuit.  It is a state of being for a sentient race.  That is precisely what all of the noble qualities that we have defined are all about.  The natural state of being for a race that Nature has equipped with awesome potential that will never be released until the noble qualities manifest.    There is only one way for them to manifest.

We knew what to strive for  (self-respect, essentially) three or four millennia before we could figure out how to get there.  Words won't do.  Pursuing the noble qualities is a fool's errand.  Pursuing the state of clarity, that has been put through the wringer for three millennia, has been necessary in order to achieve a noble state.  Loving coitus is where the blinders reside.  We have not admitted that it is mostly missing.

It's like Nature (or existence or something) made us so aware of the noble qualities that we were forced into putting them into words in desperation to comprehend.  As The Tao might be said to predict.  We learned nothing.  Where are those qualities that we defined so long ago?  I certainly don't see them displayed in the headlines.

We have yet to differentiate between what is only animal and what is wholly human.  Loving coitus is wholly human.  The answer to the puzzle begins in the physical domain and branches out into every other aspect of our lives.  Very fractal of it.  Only once coitus takes its place as the original, fulfilled, sharing of love will we ever get a good handle on all of the alternative ways in which to share love.  I couldn't even take a guess today and everybody has an opinion on the subject.  We just have to see what shakes out.  In a sane world, it has to be the choice of the individual.  In fact, the more I think about it, rebellion of any kind is never again an option.  We are always rebelling against the awful state of our sentience.  Spoiler alert: it never works.  Surprise, we had to think it through instead of pandering to the animal.  Once we gain our sentience in full measure, there will be nothing to rebel against.

The noble qualities are something that Nature only grants to those sentient races that solve the puzzle of love.  How can a sentient race live with itself without fully embodying the state of nobility?  Not just putting on an act but living it.  It doesn't take money to achieve nobility, it takes the capability of love.  The capability to love has been quashed by our inability to understand that loving coitus is central to a human, sentient way of life. (I can no longer shy away from the word 'love' just because it is a massive trigger for misunderstanding)

Elsewise, we are only gazing in through a window.  Kind of like watching it on tv.  Pretty sights in which we cannot indulge fully without loving coitus.  Everybody interprets what they see through the window without ever understanding.  The noble qualities are part of the natural state of a sentient being that has reason to feel noble and no reason to feel ignoble.  

    Naming a trait is one thing.  It is a far shot from incorporating it into our existence.  That's been the joker in the deck all along.  It is not a matter of effort, just as it is no real effort to learn to love.  Just as it is no real effort to love.  Human mastery precludes the effort.  It is only human, not contortions of some sort.  We have been blinded.  And it still pisses me off.  I'll make an easy prediction.  The generation that wakes up with no rebellion in their heart and anger in their soul, feeling as if they have been cheated, will be the first fully human generation.

It is conceptually difficult to attain sentience.  The practice is as easy as living.

Well, maybe that didn't come out too mystic, after all.