Culture and the Winds of Chaos

All culture is performative, and these "performances" are the naturally emerging signifiers that glue together groups of every stripe: protecting the ordered satisfaction of creaturely needs from the winds of chaos.

Equalibrium

Pristine Awareness has one natural state: "Contentment". Disturbance of the field of "Contentment" gives rise to "The Spirit of Inquiry" and all behavior rises from this foundation.

Equilibrium is the essence of achievement.

Othering

I was reading an article today about "Othering". The article concerned the natural human division of "Us" and "Them" in communities and cultures.

But it made me think of humanity in general and the inconceivably varied voice of life its self

The Legacy of the Imbeciles

Though now popular terms of disparagement, Idiot, Imbecile, and Moron started life as diagnostics terms.

The idiot has the intellectual capacity of a normal human age two or three.

Your imbecile rises to the level expected of a four to seven year old.

And the moron tops out age ten.

It tears ones heart to encounter a creature bearing such challenges in the complex world in which we find ourselves.

It tears at ones mind to find them in positions of great responsibility.

Substance and Form

Pristine Awareness is substance, consciousness is form.