Friday Thinking - 8-16-2024 -

 Friday Thinking, is a playful reflection of the week's pondering moments. 

It is dedicated to illuminating that the next tomorrow won't be like today's yesterday. 

A Time to Un-veil - Original-Debt 

and pondering -

how conditions are shaped -

such that -

in them -

a person -

would be willing -

to give their life-for -

changing -

and-or preserving -

social-conditions -

and what conditions  -

would shape -

the measures -

of our calculus -

#micropoem

I am playing with with a stream of reasoning - an Ode to life. My reasoning thus far is inspired by Rawls ‘A Theory of Justice’ and Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' and a passage about evolution and metabolism by Frederick Turner. And Gregory Bateson. And Stuart Kauffman. And moore.

And of course David Graeber for his explanation that - Sin=Guilt=Debt and the entailing logic that original sin IS original debt.

And thus forgive me my debts and I am redeemed.

I think Rawls's notion of an Ideal of Liberalism, may allow many secular folk an approximation of a secular spirit a sort of religious life-on-earth. More than an obligation of citizens - an ideal that guides a social quest for all citizens of any society. 

Octavia awakened me, with a re-cognition, that we humans, may be best enabled to come together and collaborate - if we can share a positive sense of 'destiny'.

Yes, often this 'sense' is harnessed for war or conflict - the shared sacrifices for surviving and overcoming adversity. For a bringing of ‘us’ together - against a ‘them’ of other. 

And yes, it is also the pride of sacrifice, for larger common goals - landing on the moon - universal suffrage and literacy - moore. 

Sustainability - survival,  is definitely a necessity - survival enables living for another day - but it not enough. Survival comes with the question of why - we want to live another day - of why life-itself enables evolution.

We the earth-bound, need a bigger vision. A vision that encompasses us all - and encompasses all life - and life itself. Such a vision is often the hidden enticement in the 'life-after-death' of many religious visions and the eternity of a greater glory of (insert the noun of choice - we, life, god).  

And the unveiling? It's unveiling the austerity of the neoliberal shadow of gaslighting. How it incan'ts a misdirection of our collective power toward our individual limits - a re-casting of a political-economy behind the veil of ignorance of our collective power of self-governance - to figure with only individual properties. What Thatcher blustered - there is no such thing as society there are only individuals.

It's like a smoke-screen for capitalism, for its colonization of public wealth, to extract rent from the many for the few.

Rawls and Butler (among others), hint at a more secular way to re-cast a spirit of destiny, one that is more evolutionary - more open to continued expansion of ecologies and complexities - more open to the intensifications of knowledge niches - and the inevitable entangled mycelial cohering of wholes - and open to the sacred all the way down and up. 

So here is a stream of reasoning I'm playing with these days.

Ode to life - our original-debt - our veil of ignorance

everything that touches us - that touches life - changes us - changes life

everything that we touch - that life touches - we change - life changes

life is change - god is change - and change, is mostly - the dying - the transformations - we call metabolism

the metabolism of life - of life begetting life - of living that changes the conditions of living

and a natural consequence of metabolism - is that survival is not the end or an end-in-itself - it is always a beginning

fore living begets more living - change begets more change - and we call that flourishing

and flourishing is the redemption - of life - of living - of the original debt of all the living metabolism that came before

it is the ground that figures - the enablement of living now - and the flourishing of life - fore flourishing the possibility-spaces - beyond our limit-horizons - fore flourishing throughout the universe and everywhere - fore-flourishing an evolution of afford-dances for-of-by living

all the way down - all the way up

and it's collaboration in public - in all the public-spaces (like in the gene-pool's public infrastructure of amino-acids) - that is the currency and fabric - of the flourishing of our common and public wealth

we are earth-seed - living of-for-by living - evolving metabolism for-of-by generative flourishing change

change that begets the possibles of changing - exploring the afford-dances - of our redemption for the gift of living

it is the flourishing of-for-by - a giving-acceptance of a sacred destiny - fore-shaping change - fore-evolving the conditions of change - of change in the conditions of change - of shaping more possibility-ecologies of niches - of-for-by life - and begetting life -

and begetting life in an eternal play - for our redemption - of the gifts of the past - the gifts at hand - for the gifts of moore-new life tomorrow

mhm