An Unprecedented Future

If you sink your mind into the pages and the screen images and words of the standard political media and locate your mind's center-of-gravity there, you will fail to innovate the higher possibilities about the future for human beings.

It will seem that all thoughts of wonder and enchantment were only the fantasies of childhood.

For 'seriousness' is the adult stance.

This is how the 'intelligent' and the 'successful' proceed - from adult 'responsibility' and the necessities of material survival.

The Basque people of today are from the
standard academic narrative
perspective, likely an iron age-origin
group of humans.
They are, from other people's
points-of-view, very possibly a
remnant grouping from the very large
ancient Empire of 'Atlantis.'
 PHOTO BY LEON PETROSYAN.

This is a thing which can be looked at through the wine expertise metaphor.

Yes you can 'learn' to use jargon when speaking about wine, and you can do that in complete conformity to people who have grabbed the platform when it comes to all matters of the vine and of bottles and cellars and so on.

And those other people will have usurped your own role inside of yourself - which is the one to do with who decides what you like and what you enjoy.

Of course, in Singapore you are told what you can 'enjoy...'

The whole direction of tyrannical forces, is to disallow the individual any personal rights, and only permit them to have highly-controlled access to personal enjoyments.

The individual cannot be responsible as the agent of their own affairs. According to any tyrannical rule.

The logical problem with this however, is the uncertainty over whether the 'ruling' agent genuinely possesses any sound knowledge - or is simply lording it over everyone else and mixing arrogance with ignorance alongside a constant threat of violence in order to assert their will.

But you cannot live another person's life for them... And therefore you are the expert of the experiences that you have - for instance - drinking various wines.

A new 'Golden Age' is a time
in the future; it is not now.
We are definitely not
living in a Golden Age right now.

There's not much point if you desire to maintain a personal right to validate your own experiences - but then hand over the power to make such decisions, to a panel of wine judges, for example!

The recent European movie 'Perfumes' shows us the situation of one authentic expert of fragrances, who suffered a bout of anosmia, but was able to use their advanced technical knowledge to fabricate to others that they were still able to smell perfumes.

What's the guarantee that you have, that some third party who is said to be 'an expert' has all of their sense faculties intact at all times?

The truth is, the real expert of wine, is you yourself, since you are the one who must end up knowing which wine you really enjoy.

And you are an expert if you know what wine you love.

When looking at the future for human society, it is you that must know what is entirely good for you and it is you that must be able to say what kind of society will provide the human social ingredients that will fit with your nature.

But then, there is also the question of being able to discern what will be good for your inner being - and from that foresight apply determination and strength to mold your own character so as it can meet the standards of what is necessary to be a unit part of some truly elevated form of society.

To hold such 'prospectives' in one's mind, it is necessary to have creativity, vision, imagination - in short, the ability to see things that have not (yet) been; rather than merely to have second-hand visions and to always only adopt the ideas of others.