Logan 6 or Luke Skywalker?

Humans... awaken! Before us stands the pseudo intellectual front. A wall of corrosion closes in like a battalion of Imperial star cruisers. Heroes hold off the front assault. Alas, deep at the heart of this fight is a quiet battle of souls, the pinnacle of trials of a silent son seeking the salvation of his father, and the removal of the Emperor's power. It is truly a battle between these forces, those of harmonious order and oppressive rule.

For many with tunnel vision who care for nothing outside of the scope with which they view their world, I am reminded of the circumstances facing the would be heroes in the film Logan's Run. Jessica 5 is approached by a sandman or assassin, Logan 6, who then asks her for help. Logan 6 begins to care once his own life is on the line. And for many people this is what it takes to show them the bigger picture.

I remember heroes in alternative media too busy chasing after big names seven years ago, so that my ramblings of the days of early childhood and school were like diddly squat next to major stories across yellow journalists. Yet, my words in the past have spelled out the very tools and methods of our tormentors. The dream precognition s nonetheless imperative to mark.

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Some of our friends fighting out there have a tendency to underestimate the dark side of the force. Truth has power only so long as people remember or are reminded of it. People confuse the truth with the facts. There are many loopholes for the wyrm seeking to dismantle our sense of sanity.

I am reminded of the three at the well in Norse lore, or of the spirit Mia coming unto Gautama in the form of three women in Buddhism. This is, I believe, an inward imprint, as I have seen the sisters of trinity myself. What would it take to dismay, amaze, or seduce man's mind away from respect and responsibility? Is it not already written of in fairytales, mythology, and lore? Must we be reminded in popular space drama's like Star Wars? Or shall we reflect back to older films, like Logan's Run? Or is it a ward to us the messages inscribed and printed on conventional items, a hint in commodities, a flickering image caught up in a glimpse of our peripheral vision, delivered to us through an artificial reality or by the dreams of God? I am reminded of the images of nuns launching bibles airborne and striking parochial students dumb in the back of the head. Such are the stories I heard as a child.
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The Variables and Virtues of Mankind

Humanity's strength, and its weakness is one in the same. The artist knows this, for the artist lives in the midst of this threshold. It is at the crossroad where fortune or misfortune is decided. Yet the factors which shape our destiny are often elusive to the ordinary man.

Our religions tend to teach virtues, which are values that are intended to stay the same and ever unchanging. Such trains of thought can be compared to certain values in programming languages. Take for instance variables vs literals. The latter does not change. The former is a place holder for data which is subject to change. Both tools are valuable to the wise. But one must first be made wise. Wisdom, like compassion, however, is not necessarily one of man's greatest attributes on a wide playing field.

Speaking of change, it is the potential for improvement which is humanity's great strength... potentially. It is often the case, however, that our greatest strength is also our great weakness. For while we can consciously improve our conditions in life, unlike animals which must rely solely upon evolutionary components, we come into conflict with change when it is aimed toward progress simply for the sake of progress.

So, why bother with a distinction between progress and prosperity?

Simply, stated, progress does not shed a tear for the loss of prosperity. It feels nothing. It knows nothing. In ancient times we can take example of the great losses to great peoples who chose quick progress of some kind over prosperity.

At the fork in the road between prosperity and progress resides with us those who are insane, and while they appear to look as we do, they feel nothing for our species, nothing for humanity. It is these monsters who take advantage of our weak points, dressing up our weaknesses as strength, usually following through the group mindedness method().

This loophole for the wicked is why I state that our great strength is also our great weakness. Guidance is a continuous task. It is something like piloting a ship in rough waters for what seems a lifetime, whereby all humans must make consistent effort to maintain the stability of the vessel we are all riding on. Thus, responsibility is the first thing the insane monsters will try to unhinge from our awareness, and teach us instead to spit upon our values which have allowed us to survive hitherto. We are a gregarious species, and although this nature has held us together through the thick and thin of our time on this planet, our very strength is turned against us by the psychological predators among us.

We have always lived among monsters.

In the days of old the only way to address such burdens of the belittled man under the rule of tyrants was in the form of fairytales, and possibly other arts. As sensible and deep thinking, sophisticated human beings it is our duty to look at the history of our world, and understand ourselves independently of external and forceful  interpretation.

Think of what it must of been like, whether literally true or not, when mighty Hercules drove off the giants from now Greece, and sent their hordes fleeing to the northern realms of what is named Sweden. Consider the painful wars of the Irish who staved off the necromancers, the Druids, and the Danes in the early years of ancient Erin.

So. What are we now? Are we like the Spartans? Do we hold some kind of Troth true to our people's? Have we a kindred spirit at all? Or, are we merely the reprogrammable ever changing variables of our master control program?

Greetings, Program?

Life is very confusing. It is important to make the connection with that which has created you. Your source from which you came upon entering the world. Call this what you may.

This factor distinguishes you from those who are simply used or those who are soulless. Our great prosperity is our conscience, and our consciousness is a continuously developing component which links us directly back to our master and creator, whatever one wishes to name this source is not the issue. Strife and conflict arise from an anxiety to have absolute answers to an infinite and wondrous universe which is forever in a state of constant evolution.

We must become masterful rangers in this multiverse of thresholds, whereat all change must be measured for variable of progress against the literal of prosperity.