Shine or Burn

 

 

People find their entire identity in others.  Like a set of mirrors—instead of shining on their own—and being attracted to the brightness.  And those who do shine on their own—as opposed to stealing other people’s shine; or blotting it out for their own spark, find each other and all the gifts of the world—while the blotters are busy stealing other people’s shine—actually burning them to reflect themselves.

 

Some have so many metaphors and mental constructs to describe being taken care of--or being oppressed; to describe there being an interdependence (as opposed to an interconnectedness); a social reality, for example; of there being some system or container or god or devil--which there is. People do this everywhere from the study of astrophysics at university to the streets of the hood and everywhere in between.  

 

But god wants each of us to do it ourselves--and together. The devil is the one who wants us to be dependents, for lack of a better way of saying it. We are looking at things the wrong way.  We are looking up for answers or to blame.  When we should be looking inside and straight ahead.  No one seems to aspire to be autonomous—to be all they can be; and then connect.  

 

It seems many have been taught to steal from others as a modus operandi.  That we are a social group; that there is some overarching principle that determines our wealth—our shine; and that we need to share the light.  But you cant divide and redistribute light—and all its manifestations and variations.  But you can burn the people and institutions and entities and incorporations that shine very brightly—as firewood to bask in.  that is what socialist and communist and social philosophy and psychology is.  

 

Some think it’s for community or connection, but if you look at your motives—or the motives of those who taught you—it is for love or money or power: things which people who shine don’t need to rearrange you or your world to acquire or find or have.

 

Some have made as free a world as they could which facilitates or allows everyone to succeed and shine.  Some have created a world where theft and destruction are enabled where only the vanguard acquire at the expense of everyone else; of anyone else.

 

If you are an idealist and you really want there to be more community and philanthropy facilitated, you would try to reach and empower individuals and teach them—not rearrange a society politically.  Politically means through force.  And it also means immorally.  It is coincidental that the moral and the utilitarian coincide.