That’s not my logic.
I have learned that sometimes we need to burn on the crosses of our making - that is facing up to our mistakes, being open and humble enough to learn, striving to understand the dynamics at work.
Well if you want to be that way about it.
For instance, when I say we are all guilty, I do include myself.
Failure is a part of a dynamic life, but so is success.
For me and myself I know that looking at civilization’s history of empires, (which has brought about many true marvels, no doubt) they show the same failings and horrendous self-destructive behaviors, as so aptly outlined by Machiavelli, (regardless of his motivations or goal).
It comes back to the Cosmic challenge that the universe handed humanity during ~ 1950s - 1960s.
Watch out kids!
You have acquired the powers and tricks of Gods.
But you are forgetting something!
Earth is finite!!!
Earth cannot support endless increasing populations, read—vanity and gluttony.There are limits to growth—global warming, ocean acidification, deforestation have cascading consequences, and they are all bad for our complex, highly interwoven and interdependent infrastructure.
We may by nature be Self-absorbed and Self-serving, it was time to start feeling guilty about it and changing our ways.
The time had come to face facts, tamp down our fires,
or we would destroy our own society
and turn Earth’s biosphere into a wasteland.
Instead business and political leaders today are as vicious and without regard for the general populous as ever. And USA just trashed its hollowed Constitution.
Somehow we needed to figure out how to wholeheartedly take Earth’s complex systems (biosphere + global heat and moisture distribution engine) and other creatures seriously - into our hearts, thoughts, budgets and yes into our business thinking.
But who was listening?
WE can’t even be brothered to get to know ourselves,
too busy trying to achieve endless potential,
to appreciate what we have right here and now.`
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Philosophy is wonderful stuff, asks great questions - but its language is in ideals, within a ‘what if…’ framing. The mind can do anything it wants within its thoughts. Appreciating that divide between your dreamy mind and your pragmatic physical body - is a worthy goal. That opens whole vistas of deeper self awareness.
None of it offers, “infinite potential”, what it offers is a more coherent understanding, leading to a real foundation under oneself.
I’m quite fortunate, living in the natural world in a way few get to (these 40 interesting acres amongst 4 adults and 2 kids and my Maddy has me walking miles every day, it’s this world I identify with, watching critters, tracks and burrows, and so on.
I can look into my body and into time in a way few are interested in - it’s no woo, it’s doing the homework. Keeping up on scientific advances in evidence and understanding standing. Being capable of relating it back to the world I experience.
Having an deepening awareness of the relationship between my body as something different, smarter and with an agenda and awareness beyond my thoughts, something unimaginable to me, but that I know goes back a half billions years worth of unbroken generations. That isn’t simply a factoid or hangover, it is who we are.
Scoff at the term ‘having a relationship’ with my body, I know sounds weird, but then I think of my “relationship” with this Maddy dog, we’ve learned to communicate amazingly well, but how we do it, is a mystery, she doesn’t understand my words, I never learned hand signals or formal training. We just tuned into each other. (Like the Supreme Court justice about pornography, I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it 
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Science visualization has enabled laypeople tremendous insights that help understanding along. Like I may not be able to picture spelled letters in my mind’s eye. But let me watch video of my insides, that I can visualize in my thoughts and it fits into a coherent knowledge base that I’ve already achieved.
No superpower, simply personal curiosity, interest. It’s been helpful in various ways, pragmatic and philosophical. The information is there but there needs be an interest, along with a story to provide folks with a framework over which pieces of information can be assembled into a coherent whole.
The biological information is out there for anyone to digest and process.
Without this sort of biological/evolutionary self-awareness that I’ve developed over the past 7 decades, well particularly the past half dozen years, I fear I’d be a basket case in today’s meltdown into dystopia.
But in the end, I only have one death to die, and one life to live, and mine is feeling pretty good, and I know that now matters the most, so be present to it.
Feeling good about living in one’s own skin, leads to something as simple as
“I am a filament in the fabric of Earth’s Evolution” -
which for me says it all.
Much better than, Jesus Saves.
I also figure I may as well share, still looking for some interesting constructive conversation with someone who can relate to some of this.
All we do is fencing.