People Don't Have To Be Perfect

People don't have to be perfect, to stop talking each other into screwing everything up.

The second half of that isn't less important then the first either.

The idea that we can't, because we're not perfect, is just complete nonsense.

Its not even that hard. It doesn't even take more effort at all.

If anything, it actually takes less.


Why do people want cities?

When we have all the technology we need to have everything they have to offer without them,
and without harming the natural environment to do so either?

Some goes for cars, which are the greatest trojan horse for indentured servitude ever invented.


Why do people prefer the idea of money, and of trying to impress each other,
to the reality of living in a world everyone could actually enjoy living in?


Why do people want their fantasies to be about swords and guns and horses, when there are so much more stranger and more gratifying things and worlds they could be dreaming about?


Why do people think you have to be super smart or super rich to think of and about the kinds of things I think of and about? I can absolutely positively guarantee, i'm neighther one.

For that matter, why do so many people seem to think you have to be either one to have something to say that might be worth considering? I can understand if you're really just saying the same things they've heard uncountable many times before. But what if, at leas occasionally, you're actually not.

Why do people not want to hear what they're NOT familiar with?
Seems to me, its hearing what they already know that would be a waste of their time,
not what isn't.

 

People do not need to be perfect as perfect is often someone else's view of what is perfect.

There is a mirror in this thought process that is not pretty.

 

Would Dentured servitude be when you have a really old butler that has none of his own teeth?

 

Yawn

 

it may be the yawning of the age of aquarius, but is that an answer? and if so, to what?

 

I like cities and I am not concerned with the concept of perfection what so ever.

 

Even more, I like money and the things you can do with it.

 

that's cool, but how is herding everyone who isn't willing to indenture themselves to everything they don't like into them, any different any different then forcing anything else onto everyone?

 

that's fine too, but where is the gratification in trying to impress anyone with anything we don't create ourselves?

 

Perfection is the act of acceptance. If I accept something then there is perfection. If someone else accepts something, ......I dunno, maybe this isn't perfect!

 

I think I just like the things I can do with it.

Sometimes it may be a subtile difference but there's a difference. You can't eradicate people infringing on other peoples rights, only regulate/manage it.

 

Spending money isn't the same as conspicuous consumption. All of the activities I enjoy - traveling, backcountry skiing, ice hockey, climbing, fishing - all cost a lot of money. With more money I can do more of them and am therefore happier.

 

true, its a statistical thing. the cultural values people are surrounded by and take for granted have more to do with it then the imposition of regulation. laws are like a bandaid. its the cultural values (that people live by, often without realizing that they do) that are the health or the disease.

(your approach to money is more logical then most people too. you seem to understand what it is and isn't. it makes a fine tool, if one uses it as one, but a pretty crummy god, if one insists on worshiping it.)

 

that's how its set up in most of the world now. but there's nothing intrinsic about it having to be. i'm not suggesting it has to not be either. only trying to point out that other approaches, at the cultural level, if not at the individual, are not only very possible, but were it not for the accidents of history as it happened, its a complete roll of the dice as to whether we would every have had to go the route we have at all.

(symbolic value is a fine, though far from intrinsic, tool, but the symbol is never the value it represents. some people don't seem to 'get' this, or have a hard time understanding it.)