I am thinking about labels and its content, their actual expression, application, and implementation. They are both reasonable, logical in existing. Labels being a dream or map of where to go—its reality, what to do with it, what to bring with you in directing the self to reach out from the present no matter what its condition or circumstance of the present.
When this functioning of image is given to many it brings collective effort to bear on movement, unification and synthesis in a joining together of resources, universal understanding, and cohesive identification of oneself as part of a community, organization and life itself.
This is all a simplistic psychological visioning and can be understood by some as a social/political necessity.
Its cohesion and dissolution is accepted and rejected in the rise and fall of social orders—identification, change in the enlightenment or tyranny of social and cultural awareness—as it awakens. This has always existed in the organic core and dynamic of social and cultural history in its evolution of knowledge, circumstance and experience. One will, most likely, always find oneself fighting in the past, defending itself from the new, or in fighting to change the past. Both are two parts of the same story.
The changing of past events imposes on social and cultural images so as to bring a constant challenge to established values and goals in present life that need change and revision, as knowledge and dimensions in the social/cultural dynamic seeks to keep pace, alter and/or sacrifice the “Old”, the traditional, in order to keep up with the “New”.
The “Old” and “New” may or may not be enlightened—which is better or worse?
Not only is the modern pace and character of change—in dimension and volume—multi-layered and complex, the collective social organism is not able to keep up with it. The character, and perhaps the luxury of consistency, changes in the hold on time and space, but life exists in a state of continuous change in almost every breath it takes.
This creates a feeling of movement and progress for some, but it also generates a sense of disturbance and disruption on all levels of expression regarding social stress.
Interestingly it polarizes into a disproportionate separation of the few from the many—domination and rebellion . . .
The few may benefit for a while by obstructing and delaying change, especially in the area of political inertia and the domain of their personal grip on wealth and power—in the grip of tyranny.
The many, on the other hand, are disrupted, unsettled, and violated. Their image of their society is uncertain. They have no clarity as to where they fit, and have little or no confidence in the fair and just, nor in the stability of their social place and identity. All this undermines trust, generates anxiety, judgment, suspicion, etc. This is the smoldering of the fires of rebellion and social disturbance. This always leads to the collapse of the prevailing social structure.
This is natural and normal—historically the life and death of human social orders. But, it seems like something that could be managed, except it is also embedded in subconscious neural levels where dreams and nightmares are generated. When adjusting is needed, the willingness, the positive outlook, just isn’t there to provide the grace for the tranquil opening of mind and body needed for change. The result is what you see all around you as disruption, anger, anxiety and knowing. It seems we are unable to accept this dynamic collectively as the nature and character of social existence.
Our current problem is exacerbated because the forces of change are so immense, frightening and dangerous, that few are able to free themselves from the anxiety it inherently produces—it’s kind of like keeping calm while you are falling to your death.
It becomes difficult, if not impossible, to know what is true, what is false, and what can be done that actually motivates us in the actions of necessity for the well being of all.
Can WE free ourselves? Can I free myself from the burdens of the past and carry their meaning and benefit into the present?