There is no mathematically demonstrable path by which an individual or society can best seek the unfolding of non-trivial meaningfulness. Meaningfulness unfolds with the communication of assimilated and inspired myths of a culture. The myths and parables of a culture become part of its logos. What best accounts for good assimilation and inspiration, if not empiricism discernible in logic and math? Answer: Respect for the empathetic intuition of individual minds, within a collective realm availed for the decent expression of individual freedom and dignity. Question: What avails that realm? Answer: An unfolding of wisdom that avails the fabric with which the collective web is spun, within which individuals communicate themselves to their fellow collectives. Neither Individualism nor Collectivism should reign to the exclusion of the other. Rather, meaningfulness best unfolds with a two-step dance of apprehension and appreciation between both. This dance cannot reasonably be separated from a cosmic web, field, or Holism --- which gives expression to consciousness-substance-information. Consciousness-substance-information is not a syncretic duplicate of the Holism. Rather --- consciousness, substance, and information are alternating masks behind which the Holism presents and dances with each of our particular perspectives of it. Nor can any mere perspective of it measure any dance with it, except through alternating, fluxing masks of consciousness, substance, and information. Summary: Meaningfulness necessitates capacity for --- indirectly, intuitively, and empathetically --- both (1) Individually apprehending and appreciating the Holism, as well as (2) Collectively apprehending and appreciating our dependence upon it. Liberty within a culture necessitates collective respect for the Individuality of its members, contemporaneously with individual respect for the Collective ethos of the culture. Individual freedom abides only within the law availed by the collective. Neither pure anarchy nor pure socialism can avail meaningful sense. Pure Individualism, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism are lies that only and always cover crony abuses and deceptions, which often go international when cronies become adept at playing off one another in order to milk their useful idiots and homies. The purpose of the collective should be to avail individual liberty. The work of the individual should be to defend the collective that avails liberty for him and his progeny. To accomplish this, people who would be free must crumple the curtain that covers the cold calculus of the cronies!
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It's hard to fathom how meaningfulness could be pursued, absent intuitive, empathetic capacity for Individually appreciating the Holism, as well as capacity for Collectively appreciating our dependence upon it. Individual freedom abides within the law availed by the collective. Neither pure anarchy nor pure socialism can avail meaningful sense. Manmade pure Isms --- such as Individualism, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism --- always cover crony abuses and deceptions. Now, the cronies have gone international. They have become adept at playing off one another in order to milk their useful homies. The Pilgrims tried to get away, and now the cronies are drawing us back. The purpose of the collective should be to avail INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY. The work of the individual should be to defend the collective that avails liberty for him and his progeny. To accomplish this, people who would be free must vigilantly pull down the curtains that cover the disloyal works of cronies. The outcome of the challenge now before us has become as uncertain as that faced by the Pilgrims. If we restore their faith and thanks, we may yet find guidance to return to the American dream of a new beginning --- and liberty.
Affinity for my ideas is not enough. It seems some mix of opportunity and privation is also needed.
There abides too much counter attraction to nihilistic nirvana: fill up your senses with diversions under an assumption of ever thereafter resting in consciousless peace. The idea of eternal consciousness is not necessarily an appealing one. To some, it is apalling. To me, it is mainly merely intuitive and not inconsistent with logic or empiricism. The here and now problem of going without such ideas is that it tends to hamper efforts to establish and preserve a civilization of decent liberty of thought and conscience, as it tends to rationalize a permanent law of concealed tooth and claw.
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