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They control the levers<\/span>
\nOf a vast machinery<\/span>
\nOf business, politics, education<\/span>
\nThey know no equals<\/span>
\nFusing work and ploy<\/span>
\nBlind to their match<\/span>
\nGame and set<\/span>
\nUnable even to follow their own ruse<\/span>
\nOur future<\/span>
\nRemains<\/span>
\nIncalculable<\/span>
\nThough we be out numbered<\/span>
\nWhat we have they can not possess<\/span>
\nThat which we share freely<\/span>
\nWill be their undoing<\/span><\/p>\n

The powers that be is simply a term for what levers exist at any given time to control worldly power.\u00a0 These rules of the game, like any other set of physical rules, has inertia, a predisposition to continue of the path it is headed.\u00a0 Without human volition or choice outside these rules, these rules will continue on their present course.\u00a0 With human choice, these rules can be changed.\u00a0 Unfortunately, making choices outside the reward system present at any given time comes with costs that are not incurred by just going and getting along with the status quo.\u00a0 Of course, some courses, some cultural conditions, are less stable than others, and just like a physical object running into some natural limit, cultural realities will shift even without human volition.\u00a0 The widespread hypocrisy in politics and business, making one set of rules for oneself and other rules for others, make such a culture less stable, less sustainable.\u00a0 In every case, the rules farther from reality will be disciplined by natural limits, even if not met with particular courage and effort from humans.\u00a0 Human choice is about shaping ourselves and our culture into a desired state.\u00a0 Stability and sustainability are about harmonizing ourselves and human culture with natural limits, which is basically reality.\u00a0 The hypocrisy of trying to maintain or manipulate two separate realities, one to your own selfish advantage, and another reality for others, is both inherently dangerous and stupid.<\/p>\n

This poem refers to several forms of undoing.\u00a0 The cowardly choice to follow a culture’s existing rules despite evidence that it is a vote for a lesser reality, is a danger to stability and sustainability.\u00a0 This sort of default non-choice is actually the easiest (laziest) to justify based on present cultural conditions, demanding no changes.\u00a0 This is the first form of undoing, the sheepish version.\u00a0 Of course, many actively work for their own selfish advantage, an evil which puts us all at risk for the retribution or push-back from natural limits overrun, the undoing of evil.<\/p>\n

The positively human form of undoing is actually an intentional undoing of dangerous “unrealities” in a culture.\u00a0 This involves persons freely accepting a cost or sanction (or forgone reward) to better harmonize oneself and one’s culture with natural limits, to undo the status quo.\u00a0 This is in tandem with other natural limits molding lesser realities into a more harmonious whole.<\/p>\n

Freedom is not free.\u00a0 Reality is perpetually shifting, in a a dynamism that can never be fully pinned down.\u00a0 Exercising freedom demands effort to assess the changing conditions of outer reality, as well as disciplined self-awareness and courage to nurture peace and harmony from within.\u00a0 The powers that be has a negative connotation because it reflects an all-too-common, lazy, and biased mode of being: using inequalities in our culture simply for our own advantage, not the advantage of all, which requires much more effort and work.\u00a0 Our freedom has a purpose: to harmonize ourselves and our culture with ever larger realities or natural limits.\u00a0 We are free to choose to get real, in a harmonious shared reality, or fight reality for some narrower, short-term gain, selfishly carving out lesser realities as our own little fiefdoms.<\/p>\n

As cause for hope, reality will have its way!\u00a0 The higher powers present in reality are powerful allies with which to align oneself.\u00a0 History is full of the high and mighty forces of any given day lining the dustbins of history.\u00a0 The struggle continues but has the promise of a more sustainable and stable future built on a foundation of higher and deeper realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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