New Year's Revolutions

Let Love in...
...bring Love out...

Mankind is One

They came first for the Communists.
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

And then they came for the trade unionists.
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

And then they came for the Jews.
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

And then... They came for me...
And by that time there was no one left to speak up...

Enter the Matrix

"I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it since I got here:
Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?...

...Ignorance is bliss!"

-Cypher

The Fifth Element (1997)

The second good thing in this film was a phrase, told by a Mondoshawan (while it was being crushed):

"Time not important. Only life important. "

This statement is so true, that I regularly remind it to myself.

Time is the frame in which we're allowed to be, to experience, to act. But, Life is the force that allows us to do all these. If something doesn't happen now, or even in our lifetime, the essential thing is to preserve life, to keep existing, thus creating new opportunities for our dreams to take place...

And in a different aspect, Time -what has or will happen- is not so important as living, experiencing Life...

OK, there were other cool things in the movie, also...

...something to be

"As soon as you're born, they make you feel small
by giving you no time, instead of it all..."

-John Lennon, "Working Class Hero"

The Primary Principle of Mankind

I'm back, albeit, not with good intentions...

After hundreds of thousands of years as sentient beings, Mankind has failed, as a whole, to succeed in our most basic functions:

Embrace Humanity (as attitude)

Ensure Survival and

Achieve Prosperity (as species)

Day by day we become crueler to each other, we endanger our survival and the wealth disparity becomes greater...

Therefore, I'm in the unfortunate position to conclude in the Primary Principle of Mankind, which is:

We are a failed Structure

(or experiment, for the religious ones...)




The question asked to any worthwhile Villain would be:

"What do you intent to do about it?"

Well, the answer, of course, is not a killing spree. That, Mankind is more than capable of doing by itself...

In case there's any disagreement about the aforementioned Principle, then I ask you: "Is your way of life countering this conclusion?... Are our ways Humane, our actions securing our survival and our initiatives towards general prosperity?"


Personally speaking, I have already expressed my sole aspect of Hope...

Terribly Sorry...

I'm terribly sorry that due to lack of the necessary time, I'm unable to keep up with commenting on current events...

I hope I'll be back soon!...

Yours,
SR

If we DESERVED a better world...

...That's who the Americans would vote for...

www.mckinney2008.com

The Great Dictator

On a day like this, 68 years ago one of the greatest films of all time was released to the theatres...

It was Charles Chaplin's "The Great Dictator", a satire that directly attacked racial and social injustice...

The best, by far, moment of the film was his famous speech at the end... which unfortunately, is extremely valid and in need of realisation even today...

"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business - I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men's souls - has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair".

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish...

Soldiers - don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate - only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers - don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty.

In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written " the kingdom of God is within man " - not one man, nor a group of men - but in all men - in you, the people.

You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let's use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfil their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfil that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers - in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"

Principles Part 2, Definitions Part 6-The Principle of the Two Joys - Inheritors and Creators

The Universe has been created based on the so-called "Principle of the Two Joys".

There are two kinds of Joys in the World; the one is carefree, innocent, the childish joy. The other is the mature, the knowing, the toil-born.

Why is the World created thusly? I guess it is necessary for the evolution of the Structures. For change and progress to take place. The "childish" Joy is the force of renewal, the promise of future. The "mature" Joy is the one that builds, the one that gives meaning.

We people, as we are born, grow up and then grow old, we pass through a blend of the Two Joys, first being children and then adults, but, in truth, always partaking in both of them.


Through these two kinds of Joys, emerge two kinds of people: The "Inheritors" and the "Creators".

The Inheritors are the people who are content enough with the World they live in and they thrive in it... they inherit the World... and are more connected with the "childish" Joy.

The Creators are those who cannot find solace in the World they live in, so they are compelled to create new things that express them and make them feel they belong. The Joy they feel more is the "mature" one.

Of course, no-one is solely an Inheritor or just a Creator. We all have our roots, our "yeast" and we all contribute something new to the World we live in.
Still, some people are more happy with the way things are and others constantly envision something new...

I, for one, feel more like a Creator, in case you haven't guessed it already...