Nothing Has Meaning

My idea inspired by Michael Freemire.

Quantum physics or mechanics. Atomic level reality. Interconnectedness. Nothing really exists without the apparatus that defines it. Things aren’t real, no thing is real. (And nothing to get hung about. John Lennon, Strawberry Fields Forever) The nature of reality.

As I ponder some of the revelatory modern thinking coming out of the physics arena I still can’t help but look out my door and see the world. There it is, solid, real, and apparently consistent.

The irony of this is that physically speaking there is no physical, philosophically speaking the is is what you want it to be yet we all agree the sky is blue and the sun is yellow. I dealt with that quandary in the classic Devin Castles favorite Is the sun green? by Off Every Day. Yes, we all perceive differently. Yes, the sun may in fact be green, or are we all color blind?

Here is what I am getting at, if we all create our own reality, yet we are all interconnected, yet we are all individual, yet we all agree on the same reality, yet we all create our own reality, you see where I am going, the dichotomy of that thinking becomes nearly hypocritical and rationalistic. Get on with it. Live life. Ponder later.

I look up, raindrop in my eye.

Ah yes. The greatest country in the history of the world.

Built on freedom, tolerance and self governing through agitation and opposition to tyranny.

How far we have come.

As we tenuously cling to all of the above and the people are lulled ever deeper into a sense of helplessness the cycle prepares to repeat. Will the US survive? Absolutely.

The very core of our identity (I am a natural born US Citizen, literally not just constitutionally) gives us the tools, the power, to renew ourselves, our country, our identity and wash ourselves clean of corruption and plutocracy.

Why mobilize?

Why not?

Well let’s see. Eat. Breath. Sleep.

Create. Recreate. Okay, those don’t necessarily make a living depending on your point of view but hey, we’re philosophical here.

The reality and the perception are two different things as insanity and nived seem to have grasped.

Just another example. Shall I reiterate?

Humans make a living in the most fundamental way, yet believe a profession or job or career is how they make a living. This is out of touch with reality, the way of things.

Get in touch.

Define defining. Something that sets a trend? Something that indicates a paradigm shift?

Here in the US we are on our way.

Check it.

Yes indeed.

The thought of many things is not necessarily the way of things, in fact, rarely. The way of things is what one comes to grip with or not. When one does get a grip on the way of things, then, one can move in other directions and change the way of things, albeit slowly, but surely, or not.

Is this contradictory? Does achievement as identified by the individual come at the expense of the way of things? Or is achievement the way of things?

Still, hope springs eternal, that one will become what one is not, or do what one does not, until the day when one can let it all go.

You have to let it all go, Neo.

Well, promised to address this.

Be whatever you want to be.

Now really, defining oneself is not as simple as it seems. If I were a mechanic, or carpenter, or musician, or beautician, no wait, I am, well, suspend that for a second, if I were a physicist, is that what I am?

No, literally I am whatever I, or the group defines. Say, human being. Take it out of the biologically literal and we usually wind up at craft, or career, or work of choice, or work of force as the victims would proclaim, so we are Doctors and Lawyers and so on.

Be whatever you want to be? Another touchstone of the insane, we measure ourselves by our daily work, and yet, any given meaning (where there is none inherently of course) usually has an underpinning of emotional, ethical, values, love, joy, contentment, peace. So what am I?

I am honest.

“Oh, if there’s an original thought out there I could sure use it now” Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded Album

Ever feel that way? Ever feel that your thoughts are endlessly repeating? Girl, girl, rock and roll, bike, gun, girl, the meaning of the universe, girl, soil health, girl, math, girl, responsibility, girl, music, rock and roll, girl, rock and roll, girl, rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll, rock and roll, girl, you get it, rock and roll.

So it goes with my brain. (Love “and so it goes” by Kenneth Patchen. Judy is a big fan. I never have read much but what I have is all that and more. . . and so it goes. Gotta read that junk soon.)

Now that I realize that my readers need really concise language that cuts right to the point, with no brain exercise required, no thought, no effort, instant comprehension. . instant comprehension’s gonna get you. . . gonna knock you off your feet, I will make no effort whatsoever to accommodate that ridiculous request or implication or contradiction or criticism.

What does it mean? It means a lot. Keith Richards – funny tune about. . girls, rock and roll, girls, rock and roll

So lets stop pointing fingers for a second and talk a little bit about responsibility.

What is that? What is taking responsibility. I just read a Carol Burnett quote, of all people, Carol the great philosopher, in Ecological Home Ideas, along the lines that only she can change herself, no one else can. Just thought of it. It didn’t inspire this post, Insanity did, of course, but now that I am off and running on the responsibility gig again I remembered the quote. Somebody out there likes me – David Bowie

Taking responsibility is to realize the truth that all our thoughts and actions derive from us, intentionally, by us and due to us. I know, I know, who wants that? How can I go on if I can’t say “it’s not my fault”. Easy, actually. No subconscious, no unintentional, no accidental.

If you accept that for a moment, think about it, reflect upon it, there comes the idea of freedom from manipulation and pain, by recognizing control of us is ours.

We can control ourselves if but we would. Manipulation, derivation, obfuscation, lazination, crazy Nation, will cause reactions, but, we can also learn to act, only act, never react. Each movement carefully and instantly produced from a life time of disciplined study and inward visits.

Yuck.

The idea of reaching an end while still adhering to principle and law, is the opposite of the common usage of this slogan itself. Typically means to an end refers either to a convenient mean, or an unethical mean, but rarely to a valid common mean, like a hammer for instance, a mean to driving a nail. 6/29/07.

That is the idea I present here. The means to an end does not literally have to mean (pun intended) a bad method, unscrupulous method or immoral method though we do usually reserve the phrase for at least a sort of blasé nonchalant attitude toward the means if not when considering the means to be unscrupulous.

So what I am floating here is a means to an end literally, nothing groundbreaking or original of course, but simply food for thought regarding the “what” versus the “how” and how (pun again intended) we get hung up on the means or how and base the what or end on ridiculous limitations.

Well, the means to an end is a necessary evil, or in this case normal every day occurrence, the end however is ours to make.

This is the day for all of us to really think about what the United States was founded upon, is and will be into the future. This is the day to read and reread the Declaration of Independence, a document heard round the world, and an excellent guideline for all citizens to take responsibility for their governing. Reading the works of John Locke can shed even more light on why and how the United States of America came into being.

Today is the day to be reminded and to educate ourselves.

And to think about freedom.

What make this country great is its birth from an inherent opposition to imperialism.
What makes this country great is tolerance and understanding.
What makes this country great is its ownership by the people.
What makes this country great is a balance between social policy and free markets.
What makes this country great is personal responsibility to our country and ourselves.
What makes this country great is the opportunity to grow, or not grow.

What makes this country great is remembering what makes this country great.

Let’s make sure our United States stays true to itself.