Surface issues & superficial solutions

Surface issues & superficial solutions

Maybe this will explain it.  I have had such trouble pinning down surface issues in a coherent manner because there are no feedback loops.  So, let me try, again.

I have to start with an Eleanor Roosevelt quote, " “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”  I doubt you will see the point I am trying to make.

I was just thinking about a really, really bad surface issue.  Wars being waged by nuclear powers on countries that don't have nuclear weapons ... 

Scratch that.  I decided to look through my earlier books.  I was right.  It is another aspect that I explained very well long, long, long ago.

I can't decide which book's insights chime through the best.  You choose.

This one is from Millennium.  Modified to some extent.

Tell me how economics, politics, governments, religions, economic models, or any other preposterous proposed basis for improving our predicament (all surface issues) can possibly compare in any way to something so fundamental to our existence, something so crucial to the basis on which we live as correcting the state of coitus to suit a sentient race that is aware of its lack?

Coitus is not some superfluous issue used as only a distraction from the real issue.  This goes to who we are and the detritus of the animal that we still maintain after thousands of years.  

The brute force effect of laws, religious dictates, regulations, mores, and ethics have no real effect other than to contain the madness to the slightest degree.  They are forced on the individual from the outside.  It doesn't really work.  Nothing changes.  The pressure builds and the pressure cooker bursts apart regularly.  It gets worse each time the pressure cooker explodes.

        The necessary change comes from within by facing the issue that has distorted our existence for three millennia.  While I am extremely confident that any man can learn to make coitus a loving event, even if it weren't, we have to face the facts and men need to accept it openly! 

All of those feeble efforts to tweak the surface issues or force conformity (think herd behaviour) have never improved the situation one iota and never will.  It does not get us closer to being Human.  It only gets us closer to completing the absurd mimicry of Humanity. 

We cannot become Human by relying on outside influences to force change.  It cannot happen.  The attempt to do so is an animal mimicking what it thinks it means to be Human, while completely ignoring the internal struggle.  

We are no closer to our Humanity than we were three thousand years ago and, yet, we can get there in a virtual instant.  It has all been mind games of imbeciles.

Do you really think that a law should be required for a man not to rape a woman?  Do you really think that little of men and humanity in general? 

I know. That's just the way it's always been.  Right?  Sigh.  "We are only human."  Sigh.

How about a man's own self-respect impeding him from such a heinous act?  You can hardly even comprehend the concept, right?  All of the other acts of abuse against women and a great lot of our troubles come from the same pool of men's lack of self-respect.  There is only one reason for their lack of self-respect.

This one is from Book 6.

The Trouble With Troubles

There is something disturbing humanity at a fundamental level.  That disturbance keeps all of the nonsense in motion.

If you inspect closely, what we have tried to do regarding our predicament is focus on each little individual trouble that humanity causes and stamp it out, in order to avoid the real issue.  

    We have tried to contain the chaos in only two ways: laws and religion.  They only attempt to contain the havoc, never eliminate it.  Learning to be Human is not an intellectual prospect that can be taught.  We need to educate the heart.

Attacking surface issues is like playing the game Whack-A-Mole.  More idiocy will always pop up.  Worse yet, it is always in a more virulent form than the previous attempts.

Our whole approach starts with the assumption that we are irretrievably screwed up.

We spend our time on surface issues & superficial solutions because we have not been willing to look at humanity itself and ponder what is wrong with the human race.  I have been explaining for fifteen years what the real problem is.  The real question is can you face it?