I see chaos everywhere.
So I am paid as a professional observer. Essentially one of my roles is, observe, identify weakness, failures, aspirations, successes. Typically this aligns to business process management in the educational technology space. Some of the most formally secular educated minds of this world and vocationally educated in technology look to me for information I have gathered, witnessed, used, amid failures and success. Me! They look to me! How humbling it is. I underestimate and under-appreciate myself a lot. BUt professionally I am compensated for this equation – Observe -> Inform -> Instruct.
Observe for context
I have observed since the opening ceremony at the 2024 Olympics. Most of the noise is fashioned from the tooling of the ‘father’ of modern public relations and I have added the titles of gamification and dopamine seeking algorithmic induced addictions. Look!
I am resenting the lack of empathy in several that broadly or authentically claim Christian as an identity. I lean into my discipline to love what I’m hoping is a real deity with all my heart mind and strength and also loving my neighbor as myself. What do I observe – self righteous indignation and judgment cast -almost always on another – there are motes being demanded of others while beams of hypocrisy scream in choirs and choruses that are deafening from the demanders. All of that noise leads to hatred and enmity of other humans. By their fruits ye shall know them – if the fruit is enmity and hatred – it is difficult to remain in the pews of post biblical and modern neo Christendom.
Don’t worry I’m not at the airport announcing my imminent departure – but I struggle with the internal conflict, the disambiguation, and contentious noise that applies at a density never before seen. THese are engineered and fueled by algorithms prompting humans via channels like machine learning and artificial intelligence and other tools. THese are often used by those less than apt and often under qualified and under trained to wield such tools. Often, like Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius say – these things are going to occur, they are uncontrollable, so I focus on me and what I can control. Ever seeking my ever changing aspirations through often brutal failures and meaningful lessons learned and successes.
Inform Using Discovered Context
I often speak as a voice, because of empathy wells I have either created myself or thru wisdom observed through others, and represent the oft-times voiceless when I identify it as necessary. Sure I make mistakes and have misreads- but for humanity’s sake – “pump the brakes” America. We are not ok! I am not fine.
In the USA we have mental health issues. We persitist to apathetically allow a small loud swath to represent partial truths in behalf of those that have become even lesser than peasantry. We are turned against the other by simple word choice by fanatical “genital chasers” ! I am a parent raising 4 kiddos and too many adults are most interested in what’s between my kiddos legs than their acquisition of knowledge and mental health. Whiskey tango foxtrot. As a youth I learned that one of the strongest feats of nature is the molecular composition of a snowflake. Now snowflakes are parroted around as some crony pejorative. Don’t worry, I’ll eventually “bag the fries” and get moving along.
Instruct using context
To my closest friends – please join me in the four cardinal virtues
- courage
- wisdom
- temperance
- justice.
Seek wonder and awe and not just “happy” – Happiness, I keep finding is quite “quid pro quo” and everytime I arrive there it demands more. But like many Utah minors seeking satisfaction, I’d rather soak in wonder and awe and joy (see what I did there?) and ruminate and soak in that space as long as possible. Really I bet no one will listen as I say this to the great void.
Here’s some food for thought. The boxer that a few vocal folks are screaming about – in the USA would use a female bathroom – why you ask? In her country of birth, Algeria in North Africa, she was identified as cis female.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Let’s add to the embarrassing assertions:
- Gojira isn’t Satanic
- the leotard tear did not show a nutsack
- Bacchus and Jesus are not the same
- The bloodbath was representative of Marie Antoinette’s bloodbath on her country
- The beautiful rendition of IMAGINE being ignored
On the world stage, I now see why so many of my international friends keep asking if I am ok. This is nucking futz – and no – FWIW, a male should not be in the ring with a female but this is exactly what the pro power curating narratives are stipulating as we march toward agenda 47 and the heritage foundation’s project 2025. Did I say that loud enough for the short bus and those in the back of the long bus. Holy Nelson, maybe we do need snoop to light that blunt and have Willie Nelson pass it around. What’s weird is why these particular adults are so fascinated by chasing the genitals of another and often the kiddos. Bigger fish to fry folks. Pump the damn brakes. And an interesting read is found here — Olympic female boxers are being attacked. Let’s just slow down and look at the facts. (Click here)
I see lunacy and fanaticism in the two mainstream political religions rampantly degrading to intellectual piety like the often cited Sadducees and Pharisees by Christian apologists. All the while, justifying war crimes for interest group funding to help them (team red/blue) purchase votes. I yearn to see my kiddos have more than me. I yearn to know this is just a torrid development phase or cycle. I hope for intelligence to land in humans over 13 and stick until they inevitably die. I imagine. The best word I learned as a young missionary in France circa 1994 – 1996 was to imagine, not assume. I see so many call for absolutes when they are often just power curated perceptions that eventually rot away under stress much like rocks degrade into sand. The beautiful rendition of imagine is seemingly overlooked and forgotten in these genital seekers loud toddler like tantrums that are akin to the demands of those that create martyrs. Am I ok, I sure hope so, because what I observe, definitely is not.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gold-medaling-in-the-culture-war