I mean, it’s programming. Of course it is. But we’re going to do it anyway, we’re already doing it, we’re built to do it. If we didn’t do it nothing would work. The least we can do is admit that we’re doing it, and be up front about it.”
In our daily lives, as we go about ordinary daily things, we don’t always recognise that everything we do is a choice. Everything. Every time your hands touch something, it’s an opportunity to make something right, something better, something perfect or at least as good as can be made by our hands. The Shakers understood this. The point of doing it right isn’t just to do it right and improve the world; getting it right improves us, and that’s how we get the world we want. It’s the glorious consequence of action: action changes us. Exercise begets strength, work begets result, and we become altered according to how we’ve done our daily lives.
My little sister came to me with a complaint about post-modernism, which she was being taught about in high school.
“It hurts,” she said.
I couldn’t agree more. She talked about how the breaking down of boundaries leaves very little to work with, and how it failed to replace them with anything that she could use. Since [...]
I stand before you as an independent agent, autonomous and responsible for myself and my actions. Every thinking being is a world, unique and alive, and I am responsible for the maintenance of the world that I contain. Each of us is whole, unique, and possessed of limitless potential and our own quirks and limitations, and are responsible for the choices we make and the people we become.