{"id":1212,"date":"2013-11-13T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2013-11-13T14:26:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:26:25","slug":"poem-certifiable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/poem-certifiable\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Certifiable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>Certifiable<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Respectability is the currency of the establishment<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">A religion of red carpets and relics<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Propriety is its only denomination<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Holding sway with all that moves<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Trafficking in status<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">A multitude of sins covered in fine veneers<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Indulgences purchased by another&#8217;s blood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Endless memorials to the dead<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Crass facades for the living<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Taken by mausoleums<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">As easy cache for what remains<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Bequeathing scant prospects<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\">Save those certifiable<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom is, well, conventional.\u00a0 Wisdom, however, exceeds the merely conventional.\u00a0 A fuller wisdom operates at a transcendent level, more than triangulating conventional wisdom in ever finer ways, with ever more data collection and ever better statistical models.\u00a0 Wisdom sees beyond conventional wisdom, beyond mere facts, beyond mere statistics.\u00a0 Wisdom sees beyond.\u00a0 Respectability and status are the conventional ways to &#8220;succeed&#8221; in a given culture, intently focusing on existing landmarks or maps, and taking advantage of existing power structures.\u00a0 A higher wisdom envisions new and better conditions and ways of being, and works in a way that transforms power structures to be fairer and more accessible by all, not merely privileged classes.\u00a0 Most simply put, and perhaps most radically, true wisdom seeks a new and better world for all, for more.\u00a0 Conventional wisdom settles for adroitly manipulating current realities to harness the status quo to one&#8217;s in-group&#8217;s advantage.\u00a0 Generally, this is called winning or succeeding.\u00a0 True wisdom necessarily crosses the boundaries of current conventional thinking and the status quo.\u00a0 This is dangerous as it pioneers new territory, crossing the powers that be.\u00a0 Nevertheless, such wise living is powered by the faith of fuller living and the hope of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>This poem strikes at the lack of heart of conventional wisdom.\u00a0 Still, this poem is not intended to negate conventionality, but rather to breathe life into, to give it heart.\u00a0 True wisdom functions at a higher level, recognizing a higher order.\u00a0 This brings order, or perhaps more aptly put, harmony.\u00a0 The higher orders the lower.\u00a0 Otherwise, we will live backwards lives, necessarily disordered.\u00a0 Without hearts overflowing into the faith and hope of a better reality, life stagnates.\u00a0 By only mastering what is, we confine ourselves, and others, by voting for hopelessness, not putting faith in the possibility of betterment for all.\u00a0 There is probably nothing more dangerous to life&#8217;s vitality than hopelessness.\u00a0 Such cynicism is a form of death.\u00a0 Cynics, who often prefer to be called realists, may memorialize the dead but settle for building crass facades for the living on foundations purchased with the blood of others.<\/p>\n<p>Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmilburn.ca\/2009\/06\/15\/the-mystics-and-realists-of-quantum-physics\/\" target=\"_blank\">eminent physicist and less well-known mystic, Niels Bohr<\/a> said, &#8220;Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.&#8221;\u00a0 There is at least one thing certain: there is no mathematical model that can predict the future merely from the present.\u00a0 If you try to predict the future based solely on the mountain of past facts and thin present, then you will be certainly wrong!\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to start living in the future, not the past!\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to start living into the fullness of life that is our present!\u00a0 Our present state can be taken as unbearably thin somehow requiring us to accept only this emaciated reality; or, our present state can be taken as a launchpad of our robust hopes and generous dreams.\u00a0 Life invites us to more, ever more.\u00a0 The cynic may be right on occasion, as all of our hopes and dreams do not come to pass.\u00a0 Nevertheless, wise and hopeful people cannot deny their hopes and dreams regardless of the probability of being right that the world is wrong, in knead of betterment.\u00a0 Cynics are destined to be right in certain ways and wrong in ways they cannot predict.\u00a0 Either way, they are predictably less happy.\u00a0 The wise are destined to be right in some ways, the ways that right the world.\u00a0 Any way, they predictably have greater happiness.<\/p>\n<p>The wise bring hope, a dangerous hope, that invites us into a better future.\u00a0 The possibilities are endless and somewhat less certain.\u00a0 Hope is a game that must be played in order to be won.\u00a0 More often than not, the odds are favored, and when not, rock on, leading in the light of possibilities more than cowering before dark probabilities.\u00a0 The cynics vainly attempt to follow an even path that cannot be the future.\u00a0 Cynics invite the danger of no hope.\u00a0 And all of the difference lies in 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