August 25, 2024 – A

We have to do our own work,
live our own lives,
assisting one another
with our work and our life
as we are able
in light of the corporate good
and see what happens
and what we do about it
in service to our sense
of what is called for,
and see where things go over time.

Conversations regarding the corporate good
are essential to the cooperation 
of each other toward that end,
and that's where it gets sticky.

Groups and individuals will tend 
to develop wealth and power
that is disproportionate to that of the whole,
and will tend to run things in their best interests,
to the disadvantage of those with less wealth and power,
and the corporate good will be lost
in the service of individual/personal good,
and here we are.

Equality, equanimity, justice, freedom, well-being,
and the best interest of all concerned,
where everyone has what they need
and no one amasses more than they need
is the ongoing effort in the cause of balance and harmony
that has been lost in the production
of massive wealth over the past 150 +/- years.
And no one is in charge of evening out the scales.
Individual honor, restraint and service to others
is an easy casualty in the contest for wealth and privilege,
and there are none to right the wrongs in society and culture.

We are left with "circumstances begetting circumstances,"
and things having to work themselves out through wars and 
power struggles with environmental necessity limiting
what can be done and not done over time.

Welcome to the kingdom of greed in the land of the blind
generating conditions requiring individuals to find their 
own way and shape their own life within the givens and requirements they are handed as best they can.

It is up to us to find communities of like-minded people who support and encourage one another through the options and choices of our lives toward peace, serenity, tranquility, balance and harmony in light of our original nature, our inherent virtues (What we do best and enjoy doing most) and our intrinsic intuition for the good of ourselves and each other all our life long.

We are seeking communities in the service of the common good, and the internet is the most likely place to start looking--or to begin creating one "just like that" out of the ether.