Why things have always happened the way they have

A modern perspective that has achieved wide adoption is to separate religion from spirituality. There is a certain amount of sense in this. Religion is another big business, there are spiritual crimes committed by religions just as there are environmental crimes committed by big business. Then, there is religion and government, where the separation of religion and government is less modern, but also relatively modern. Finally, further divisions in government between instruments that are the will of the ruler, the will of the people, and the operation of the legal system.

The abstraction of all of these layers and the separation of concerns lends itself to a certain purity of function in each area. In some countries/states, there are layers that are weak and almost non-existent, and others that are strong and overwhelming.

Governments throughout the Bible and most famously in the Book of Revelations have been referred to as "beasts", This is a profound observation, and because it is often revealed in visions, we see that it is the sort of observation that one has in a dream when one is objectively processing one's accumulated information. 

The past year has been full of troubling news. Extremism abounds: extreme weather, extreme acts of violence, hints of extreme shifts in geopolitics. "Wars and rumors of war" and all the rest. "The birth pangs" and all of that other stuff of religion, the big business.

That religion should use certain methods, "gimmicks", to get people to join their business is seen as reprehensible, especially because on the other hand the conditions that make those gimmicks effective don't seem to diminish. The atheist would scoff: if more souls than ever are being continually accrued and committed to a Biblical god, then why don't we see an improvement in things? 

The answer to most atheist's questions is "no man can know the mind of Gods, bu which of course does not necessarily move the debate forward but this author would posit that if the obligatory cleaning of one's sandals of the dust of atheism would occur more often, then people of faith would been seen as having more integrity.

There is a saying from somewhere that states "Earth's security is human integrity". The source eludes the author, my apologies, but it is a very sound statement. Integrity is actions that in are in accord with one's stated beliefs. It is often confused with a sense of morality, but it is not that. 

Individuals and organizations who lay claim to having a sense of morality are expected to have integrity. Individuals and organizations who do not claim to be moral at all are not necessarily expected to have integrity other than those instances in which they agree to have integrity 

But back to the beasts: of late, we have some new beasts running around the planet, and they have caused considerable grief. After a thorough wintry drubbing we enter into a new spring season in the northern hemisphere, and the blistering heat of the southern summer is cooling. A good time to take stock. 

It is the new year, actually, right about now. Why is it the new year? Because of the months, the moon. Oct is eight, Nov is nine, September is the seventh month, not the 9th. August the sixth, not the eighth. March is first, not third. This is the natural order which has been "improved" and regulated, but it really feels more like a new year about now. We take stock in the new year, because livestock is born: you see? 

This blog has concerned itself with big things and small. Conspiracy theories, always a favorite subject of the blog-o-sphere. As of late, a huge conspiracy has in fact been revealed, and as usually it is the conspiracy of the power of money versus the power of integrity.

Why things have always happened, according to many religions, is the struggle between dark and light. Darkness in people causes them to be morally weak, lightness in people causes them to be morally strong, so the story goes. But morality is less the issue, particularly with the non-faithful population. It is integrity: doing as you say you will do.

As you move through your day, you move through a web of commitments. If you walk on the street, you are obligated to abide by certain rules. If you open your window, you are obligated to abide by certain rules. If you cross a border, consume power, use services, tools or other items ruled by agreements, you are obligated to abide by those agreements. These agreements are intended to constrain people who do not have integrity to act as if they integrity in those instances in which the operation of society requires it.

Operational concerns very often outweigh other concerns. For the individual, corporeal concerns outweigh other concerns: when your corporeal/operational well being is threatened, you can act in ways that would otherwise be a serious breach of that invasive web of operational agreements. That is, extreme acts become justified.

This "right to extremity" is a loophole that is more and more exploited. A person/organization/nation is in danger of operational disintegration and therefore must act extremely. The exploit occurs when entities wanting to act extremely work to create a plausible condition in which their operational continuance appears to be in danger, thereby justifying their actions. We can name a dozen different instances of this engaged in by a dozen different entities, "beasts", in recent history and throughout history millions of murders in self-defense.

But why beasts, wherefore beasts? Beasts are creatures, creatures of habit and instinct, and not of lofty humanitarian action. What a fitting label for all the various brutish empires throughout history! This may seem to be a wonderful creation of some ancient author, but it is the creation of the human unconscious that renders it fitting because it resonates. Resonance is important, it is a tool used by beasts and humanitarians alike.

This post leads up to the next post, because a great movement is afoot by certain beasts that threatens humanity. The next post will stand alone as a bit of social commentary, but this post underlies it.

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