Amazing, heartbreaking humans

People generally are a wonderful phenomenon.  Our ability to “consider” stuff is amazing!

What's tough is that oft times we choose to not consider our vulnerabilities:  We're extremely vulnerable to fear and its many incarnations.  We're vulnerable to greed; and to what some might call the “deadly sins”.  But when we hear talk like "sins" we stop our considerations because of our learned prejudice to anything that reminds us of “religion.”  Generally. 

In my estimation we are “good enough” to be here; we are not an accident, and even if we are some accident of evolution the matrix of life has seen fit to allow us to have a space here for a while.  And, importantly we have plenty of room and potential for growth:  do we want to grow in sustainability for posterity; or do we want to burn bright and burn out?

If it's sustainability and long term survival in this place that we want, I think we need to live among ourselves and in our bio-psycho-social environments better.  Again if that is our desire. 

Our  landscape is far more than just nature!    

And "Life" is not so concerned with how cleverly we justify our philosophies of nihilism, competition, winner take all, laissez faire economic systems, corruptions, war, etc.  Nor about how we justify being altruistic and benevolent with one another.  But concerned with what we do.   With that which is sustainable in the life system, or what must give way in the life system to other sustainable forms of life.  Humans have the unique ability to consider this and make changes to their modus operandi as they/we invent new ways to live with or against each other and the life system on this planet.  In this respect, living up to our full potential as humans can become akin to "human actualization" on the hierarchy of needs pyramid:  Self actualization could be considered human actualization when we tune in to collective sustainability in the system.

If this is true and the life system is fair in only considering what is sustainable and what is not in the system;  And if humans have the ability to consider their sustainability in the systems they inhabit both natural and human made (ecological, social, biological, psychological, economic, political and what have you systems) as a species; then as a species we are short sighted when we don’t consider that our vulnerabilities to greed, corruption, and even fear will always be purged inevitably by their natural instability.

Humans/we have the unique ability to consider these things and choose our path; That’s all. 

And we are saddened collectively when in our heart of hearts we maintain systems and philosophies that we know are not sustainable, such as greed infused capitalistic competition, imperialism, consumptionism, ethnocentrism. 

People are not “stupid.” 
We are amazing in our perceptions and ability to consider these things!

And it breaks many hearts when we use our amazingness to manipulate each other:   some people who are good at navigating the man-made systems we put in place manipulate the fears and vulnerabilities inherent in all of us.  This is just an historical fact.   These masters of the human systems manipulate emotions and fears to which we are vulnerable for the short-sighted gain of a few, is opposed to helping the many master our vulnerabilities, and therefore striving to build real sustainability on this planet with each other in nature.

These masters of the human systems are often courageous and bold; and at the same time victims of the same unchecked vulnerabilities that like a sickness poison ourselves and our man-made systems, causing the larger life system to inevitably seek to purge itself of the sickness.

And we all so easily manifest symptoms of the sickness called fear:  manipulation; corruption; greed.   Not from the life system itself.  But by that part of human nature that, ruled by fear and its incarnations of greed and corruption, compels many to satisfy their basic and human needs for food, safety, belonging, esteem, and validation at the expense of others as opposed considering that only when the needs of all are met sustainably in one area can we move through them in sustainable ways to the next.

We watch this pageant play itself out over and over again.  We learn about it in history books.  We witness it in our generations.  And in our sadness as we watch each other suffer from these human vulnerabilities to fear and its symptoms of emotional manipulation, greed, corruption, etc., we call each other “stupid” for getting sick or being vulnerable to the sickness, forgetting that we all have the same vulnerability to fear and manifest the symptoms of the sickness at any given time, whither rich or poor, and from whichever region of the planet we are from.   

Only when we strive to meet the needs of the many, in the environment, are we working toward the sustainability of all.