Intellectuals along with the political and religious leaders they advise, gain their status in principle through the accumulation of knowledge within a particular area. Although this knowledge may be restricted to a niche scope it does not refrain them from adopting a tone of authority in excess of it.

As a society we seem to have taken if for granted that these people are knowledgeable in all areas within which they speak. Dangerously we promote them into the highest positions of power commanding authority over every part of our lives. History will remind us time and time again, as to the foolishness of this notion.

Those who act as intellectuals or authorities within defined scopes of study, are in most parts abstracted from the totalities of the real world, and its factual issues. Take for example any of the methods implemented for social-order, be it democracy, socialism, fascism, communism, whatever the flavor, the empirical validity of them all have proven to be non-beneficial to the human species as a whole. Why? Well this is easily answered when we understand that the underlying economic structure in each one has fundamentally remained same.

The reasons for this economic morphing while preserving the systemic problem can be understood if we acknowledge the psychological nature of ourselves. The label of an intellectual, be it leader, teacher etc, in itself promotes a figure of authority, in being an authority the individual gains social validation, all human beings have a need for validation.

There is then a paradoxical situation that exists within the human condition. We are prepared to make change, in so much as that change continues to preserves the beliefs and images we hold of ourselves, and our image within society. In the case of social cohesion, intellectuals have and will continue to promote ideas and reforms, only in-so-much as it continues to provide validation to their own being. The validation we use within todays modern societies is exactly the same as it has been for generations, "power". Predominately power is represented by wealth, however power is also represented by elevation of status within a society, ie, how others acknowledge to you.

There is then no incentive for intellectuals to radically change a system that could possibly negate their own social status. This is why we continue to see the preservation of an economic system that has proven over and over to be detrimental to our being, holding back our evolution with disastrous consequences to our environment.

If we truly wish to make functional positive change within our societies, we must first make that change within ourselves. For the same egotistical barriers that exists within our leaders also exist within ourselves. There is no messiah that can place us on a global path to peace and co-operation, we must first cultivate this peace and co-operation within ourselves, in our families and in our communities. By doing so we remove our dependency and outgrow the systems of old.

To achieve this we must become responsible and understand who we truly are. Only by letting go of the materialistic desires, the illusion and distractions can we begin to see our own individual truth. Through acceptance of this simplistic truth can our a actions be made manifest and something new may then emerge.


Peace, love and truth



Pace

All human being have questions, we ask these on all matter of things. In asking we are, in general seeking a resolution in answers. Some can be answered with a level of certainty, there are others of course, no matter how hard we try, seem to be impossible to resolve. They seem to continue to generate but more questions. The more we ask the more convoluted they become, it can feel like running on a hamster wheel, every new inquiry causing a new divergence, yet another path to stumble down, another twist in the maze of confusion taking us further away from the resolution we so dearly desire.

The questions to which I refer to are not generated through education, religion, or even of current affairs, for they are not questions of tangible things. The ones to which I refer come from a place deep inside the human soul. They are inherently natural and they that scratch away at the layers of ones reality. They boil-up from under the skin, an irritation, growing, spreading within the being.

Left alone these can become of great irritation, so much so, that they may interfere with everyday life. How can a natural-person continue to focus on being a normal, effective, member of society with this unknowing, clawing at the back of the mind, the source hidden behind a thick fog of nonconformity and challenging the status-quo of social acceptance.

We can of course find ways to avoid this miserable state of affairs, humans have become very good at it, as a matter of fact. There are all manner of ways to numb out this crippling condition.

Some may find solitude in religion, offering a quick fix in the form of faith and following. Others may turn to science, for it has an array of pills, chemicals and brightly colored cocktails in all flavors of avoidance. There are of course alternatives like the pursuit for power, dominance, sex, or for the avid collector simply the drive for attaining yet more material possessions.

Whatever the choice, one may have peace of mind in knowing, they are not alone in this affliction of the human species, rest assured there have been many before you, mapping out ways to follow, thus easing the burden of individual responsibility.

There is of course an alternative route to which a sufferer may take, I mention it only for the sake of completeness. Of course it is an absurd direction as it involves heading towards that which knowingly causes pain. In taking this approach we may become left with a paradox. Choosing to follow the unresolvable, furiously spinning the hamster-wheel, devoting entire energy to something with no ultimate resolution. What can this ever achieve.....?


What can it achieve....?


Can it achieve....?


If we can allow ourselves to accept a world without fixed resolution, then maybe just maybe we attach to that which is constant motion.




Peace, love and truth (which ever truth you may follow).



Pace

Those who choose to see the world through the eyes of truth are truly the courageous, for they know of the struggle, of the loneliness and of the sadness that truth invariably brings.  In these people resides a resolve like no other.  It is an acceptance of self, of knowing, of letting go of the illusions and make believe. 

These are the people to whom I admire, though they may not be rich, famous nor educated in social institutions, I consider them true leaders of our species. Though they may fall many times, it is in their ability to raise again that truly inspires. 

To each and every one of you I give my thanks, stay strong, keep your faith, you will achieve the impossible.