Everything Refers to Everything. #E2E
(This is a bottom level post.)
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See, when you click on that phrase, it proves that everything refers to everything. Because you got referred here somehow as a result of a randomly occurring set of references of everything referring to everything weaving itself into a cultural framework that brought you to this moment in space-time. To this website. To the circumstances that created the reality that has computers and websites and wires and radio frequencies. That is complexity! That is connection! That is curiosity!
Is that what it means to be human? To be complex, connected, curious? And when we are curious, we connect and understand that complexity of every moment we perceive in some limited way in space-time? Because it is the infinite cycle of everything referring to everything in some literal or metaphorical way?
It is yours to choose. To be literal. To be metaphorical. To be non-binary. To be on a spectrum. To be what has yet to be imagined in terms of experiential reality that we humans try to describe.
There are a million things to be!
You know that there are!
You know that there are!
Basically, you have the choice to decide your perspective, your vantage point, from which you view how everything refers to everything.
You have gotten to the bottom of it. How everything refers to everything. The choice is yours as to how to make sense of what all this is. All that you have been clicking around on here. All that you have been doing since you started breathing. Both. No, everything (avoiding dualistic thinking)! Everything! We always take shortcuts and pare literally everything down to this or that. Total binary. Total oversimplification. Total reductionism. (And yet I am oversimplifying and reducing as I criticize our tendency to do these things.) That is why we fail to see beyond our blindspots. Our tendencies toward shortcuts that evolution programmed in us, along with the context processing limitations of our hardware and battery life prevent us from fully comprehending what we call our reality, but enable us to survive its staggering complexity. Is it a dual curse? Or, is it? Yet, with our many blindspots, we try our best to navigate the complex connected foggy maze that we have wandered into by being born.
Yes, that is advocacy for taking it easy on each other, on our fellow earthly travelers. That is advocacy for humility, humanity, heart. For acting like Ted Lasso when we can and suppressing our inner Led Tasso to the best of our ability. For caring when we approach the world, the universe that sustains us, that created us. For recognizing that we cannot comprehend all that it means or all that anything means, and neither can anyone else.
If it has to be a binary for humans to believe it or listen to it, then it is
HUMILITY and CARE
Those are the moral ideas that could save us. We approach everyone, everything, every moment with the humility in understanding our limitations in being able to understand everything. Essentially, we know our perspective is limited and we are curious to learn about others’ perspectives. Understanding our limitations and allowing for the possibility of differing perspectives, we approach everyone, everything, every moment with utmost care, so that we don’t create harm. We all know that no one likes to feel harm. Because we have all felt harm. So we exercise care to avoid causing harm. We exercise care as an act of humility. .
Those are two fundamental elements of my argument about how we need to be towards each other and the earth (inclusive of everything on it), if we want IT to survive. If WE want to survive. Because our survival is one strand in the web metaphor of everything referring to everything, of interconnection and interdependence, of all the social experiments. If we exist, it exists. If it exists, we exist. It is the universe, it is you, it is all the same. We are all part of the same entity and we need to learn to work together to survive. We have done it before, in our ancient wisdom. It is what got us here. We just to need to relearn through HUMILITY and CARE. But, I could be completely wrong.
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