Entrapment or Intelligence?
In
some cases one might consider having a bunch of letters behind their
name a sign of accomplishment. In others it only validates an old adage
of 'the more I know the more I realize I don't know.' At times the
letters create more boundaries to knowledge than they share, limiting
the mind's peering into further depths because of the constraints of the
'degrees' that separate. How separate we get before we begin to learn
how to come together for a common purpose is an aspect of intelligence.
Is
there a potential of bridging boundaries or of finding some harmony in
the chaos we witness in the world today? Certainly we can agree that our
planetary civilization is evolving, even though it may only appear as
pockets of progress currently.
Man
surely is realizing there is much more to our nature than has been
nurtured by and through our intellectual and spiritual development. The
two often create vastly different approaches to resolving common issues
we all face. We look out into the cosmos and can confirm there is indeed
one creation that we can all witness, yet there are a plethora of
postulates and projections as to how it operates and who is in charge.
Some have no desire to explore such matters and focus on doing what is
deemed 'best' for the daily activities of supporting their family and
performing their job, Others obsess over conspiracy theories about
control and dominance of the human race and loose sight of what matters
in the moment.
Sometimes
the advantage of intelligence keeps one dancing around the circle of
perspective and exploring each of the points along the line to the point
of entrapment. The observer gets caught up in the process and stifles
the ability of the participant to engage life. This seems to happen
across the gamut of human experience from personal to professional,
community to corporate. Now it is easy to see this when one remains in
the eye of the storm. However, life is spinning around the observer in
the storm itself.
An
old favorite, Aurobindo Ghose, presented the notion that it is easier
to enter the chaos and find one's center, then to choose when and where
to re-enter with a sense of direction and/or purpose. In today's world
the deeper one looks into the nature of his/her life and the purposeful
direction of it, the more one is confronted with the conflicting notions
of dominance and submission to a variety of 'wills' and the management
of attention to them.
Can we find balance and/or harmony within the dominant culture or do we need a shift to the submissive side?
As
we begin to realize there are some natural patterns the appear
throughout creation, maybe there is good cause to pause and reflect on
the mathematical precision present in them. It would seem to make sense
that the pendulum would begin to swing toward finding ways to become
aligned with these patterns instead of dominate our environment and
society through forced behaviors.
Just
how is our intelligence going to release us from the entrapment of our
ill-fated dominance and near destruction of our planet?
In
the author's opinion, we have to first agree collectively that there is
a need. Decades of data-driven decisions (depending on who's data) have
driven us to the brink of global annihilation, not because of weapons
of mass destruction but because of poor planetary resource management
and use. Like it or not, we're driven by a fossil fuel economy.
Good or
bad isn't the point now as it seems apparent we need a change. How we
engage that change will determine how quickly we move beyond the
entrapment and demonstrate intelligence as a human specie instead of a
human race.
