A person’s actions are the consequence of his or her training or education:
A person enters an environment that shapes his or her inherited inclinations through various processes that we know or do not know. At first he enters an environment of at least one or two people who allow him to survive and whose example he still unconsciously absorbs from both parties – these people in turn are inserted in a broader society and also transmit their forms to him. Afterwards, he enters a “formal” education for at least a few years that more or less transmits the attitude that will allow him to somehow insert himself into the broader society.
These forms enter a person until he considers them part of himself. And after a while, it is very rare for him to question them – it becomes equivalent to questioning “himself.”
And those who for some reason retain the questioning, very soon learn that it is better to “reserve” it for themselves. When a majority feels uncomfortable, they automatically “agree” – even unconsciously and without words – to “submit” that which makes them uncomfortable.
Those who for some reason are excluded but do not lose their “form” and develop it, usually end up being “exceptional and outstanding” cases. But the “exception” is always associated with and serves the attitude and development of the masses – one does not exist without the other.
The key question would be development towards what?
With what objective do we develop?
How can we “educate ourselves”… without knowing it?
Actually, if we talk about education, what is the most practical knowledge that we can learn and that will shape us? We would have to define: what is the final objective for existence? If that exists.
It is something we do not yet possess. In the absence of a “universal” final objective – which can be desired and achieved by absolutely all people – we have objectives that vary from person to person and are presented in certain categories – one category seems to “dominate” or “use” the other :
The most obvious objective is to survive and reproduce like any organism, but if this were the objective then neither civilisation nor mass production nor any of the things and processes that make us “different” from other animals are necessary. If that is the goal, it would be better to return to being a “herd of primates” taking what is necessary from the environment around us. Furthermore, with each reproduction and generation, there seem to be changes in mentality and inclinations that we do not know where they are headed – we have even studied the evolution in the physical traits of organisms, but that “evolution” seems to have reached a “limit” , where it begins to transform into the evolution of the perception of those parameters – and perhaps the discovery of others.
If that is not the goal, then the goal must be something more than simple survival: the next possible goal is to accumulate resources and possessions in greater quantities than those around us, to put in our name what surrounds us and what is generated from that, as far as we can…however, we see in practice that this cannot be the “universal objective”, it creates “unimaginable” accumulations on one side and deficiencies of even the most basic things on the other – making the lives of people “worse” than that of an animal. We do not know exactly by what process someone can begin to accumulate – it is not entirely about intellectual abilities or “analysis” or “concentration” or “effort”, there are people with high “wealth” and without those abilities, the opposite also exists, apart from other factors that we do not know and call – very appropriately – “fortune” – and ultimately, it is not a definitive objective – the people who “achieve” it never “achieve” it: they always want more and die “dissatisfied.”
So the “objective” must be the consequence of accumulating possessions: to be able to dispose of them and have “control” over people, thus ensuring the future and being satisfied and calm at least for our “offspring”… but that “objective” is not accessible to everyone and is not “definitive”. No one retains their sense of “power” for long, and the sense of “power” accessible to people is often a compensation for a broader sphere where they are “humiliated” – like someone who is a “tyrant” at the club on Sundays, and a “servant” during the week in a job or the other way around and that happens in all spheres – and we also know that globally possessions and power are sustained based on the capacity to exert violence. Therefore, a world in which everyone advances towards the goal of feeling like “Napoléon” at least for a few moments, is a world that advances towards an open, global war with all possible weapons – denying it is equivalent to covering your ears and shouting “I don’t hear”…that doesn’t stop the process.
Therefore, the objective must “lean” on all of these forms but be something “higher” than that. The closest thing would be the objective that arises from wanting to exert control over “everything”: the knowledge of everything and how “everything” works. From which, the frontier of knowledge recognises that it is very far away, in addition to being subjected – and apparently limited – by the forms of “power” – recognition and justification – and of “money” that “sustain” it while it is “pleasant” or at least it doesn’t “bother” them – and we all have the natural obligation to “survive” as long as possible.
But also, in the end, it seems to be an obligation to find the final goal for that survival: Can we really say that a global society that has developed without really knowing where to, simply following its impulses and lust for money, power and recognition, is a “mature” society?
On the other hand, when we have wanted to “plan history”- or with the current education as a way if planning it- what has happened is “Stalin” and Hitler” and etc. – one more demonstration of the need to seek the objective beyond our “automatic impulses”, to which, involuntarily, “we serve” and even our “mistakes” direct us – down a painful path – towards it.
Therefore, each “shock” or “interruption” or massive “pain” will aim to discover that objective, until one places oneself, through experiences that “correct the path”, as the most “elevated”, “elegant”, “worthy” and “responsible” and “meritorious” and “exalted” or whatever “value” that “resonates” within our pursuits.
And every “direct” step toward it, toward His attitude and likeness to His purpose, will smooth the path and make it less “painful” and “uncertain.”
Only an education that includes this single and final objective and practices it, would be a solution to all our “problems” or questions. Since it is at the “service” of the objective that all our actions serve – even against it.
To such a degree that even by “burning” and “excluding” and “killing” – not in the “best” way – but we are also serving the advancement towards that goal.
Snakeeskin 