Problems?

Depending on who you ask, there is always a particular ‘enemy’, a representative of ‘the problem’.

…global warming/‘climate crisis’ and sea-levels rising

…gerrymandering and the filibuster

…’biotech’ and ‘big tech’

…monocropping/monocultures and ‘Big Ag’

…being too ‘in your head’ or too ‘in your heart’

…’wokeism’/‘wokeness’, ‘C.R.T.’

…eating meat, and, hell

…the ‘spiritual’ and/or ‘the rich’.

What if ‘it’ is all of this, though, and none of this?

AND more…

A friend of mine just recently tried to define wisdom. He chose to word it as the capacity to see based upon understanding reality and respecting context, with grace.

Or: caring, balance, and truth.

Sounds good, eh?

Sure. But it’s also just words.

So, again, what if the problem is all of this and none of this? These “words”/“referents.”

In other these, these are problems, but maybe they aren’t “the” problem.

…

Consider this: Have we ever agreed on “the problem”? Do we all even agree that there IS a problem?

Does there HAVE to be a problem?

Is a problem actually a “problem”?

This is not a riddle, it just gets to the heart of the matter: if there is ONE singular problem, it is OUR’s. It’s not his, nor her’s, nor theirs, and no blaming or scapegoating is truly going to help, at least not long term.

It is a thinking problem, and until we can agree on THIS, we are wasting our time playing primitive chest-thumping, pissing-contest-like childish war games.

It is a thinking problem, and the most obvious representation of this fact is that we have now PRIORITIZED the capacity to believe WHATEVER we want to, not because it is right or wrong, but because, quite simply, we can.

Indeed, we can, and this excessive individualizing of our perspective, this individualism, makes sense, and it has value, as does everything else.

Perhaps, now, though, after pushing our “sovereignty” to the max, we are ready to see what we as humans are truly capable: co-creating, with WISDOM, an absolutely divine awareness of ourselves, of each other, and of our actual existence, not because we are unique independent individuals, but because we are unique individuals in an interdependent relationship with each other and with all of existence, always.

This really is the only option, unless WE want more “problems.”

Really, this is good! Really, we have never agreed on “the problem”, even when there was an explicit “demon” to fight, an actual “monster” to kill.

But we can agree!

If we are to learn anything, it is that we do not actually NEED an enemy, not really. We can keep pretending, but we don’t have to…

We have a choice, and that’s cool. That seems wise.