Law of the jungle | nicichiarasa

And the LORD God said,
Behold,
the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil:

We live in a world of our own making.
We build it by talking ourselves into shaping it one way or another.
If not careful, we end up building a lie!

Competition has nothing to do with what’s going on in the jungle!

The jungle is about eat or be eaten!
Competition is about rules. Follow the rule or you’re kicked out before you get to the end!
The competition stops being true the moment you break the rule and your co-competitors do not throw you out.
By not throwing you out, those in attendance have just transformed that particular pitch into a jungle!

“Cooperation is the law of the civilization!“
This part is true. But incomplete!
As I explained before, to compete implies to cooperate. Those involved in a competition want to know who amongst them is better in a particular field. And COOPERATE in order to find that answer. By doing that they also build what we currently call ‘civilization’.

Kropotkin might be forgiven for what he had said.
He didn’t get to witness the Chinese Cultural Revolution. That was the true pinnacle of ‘cooperation’! Not civilized by any measure…

We really need to be more careful with words.
With what we say and with what we end up holding to be true!

The world is nothing but change.
Our life is nothing but perception.
Marcus Aurelius.

Killing is the most definitive thing available to man.
To humans in general and to men in particular.

We cannot create life!
We can make love, our wives can give birth but other than that…

Yet we can kill!

You see, most animals feed on other living organisms.
We describe the process as ‘the law of the jungle’ but for them it’s only natural. That’s how they feed. That’s how they get their sustenance.
None of them gives much thought about it. When hungry, they do what they have to do. And then they stop.

We are the ones who get to choose. To kill or not to kill…
We are the ones who, once aware, have introduced thinking into all these.
We are the ones who, through our awareness, have transformed sensation into perception.
We are the ones who, in our attempt to create/maintain congruence – to keep things together, have attached meaning to sensation.

We are the ones who, once we have learned the difference between good and bad, have invented the notion of evil.

We are the ones who, once we have learned the difference between good and bad, have tried to separate them.
To separate what we have perceived as good from what we have perceived as bad. And called it evil…

And now, that we’ve reached the stage where we currently are, we’ve set our minds to determine which had come first.
The egg or the chicken…
The Good or the Bad?!?
Matter or Spirit?

When we’ll grow up, when we will have caught up with Marcus Aurelius, we’ll remember that there’s no clapping with one hand.
That while it may be natural to feed on other animals, there’s no escaping the consequences of our killings.

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