How we live in response to the vicissitudes of life tells the tale. IS the tale. Life happens and we respond. And that is all there is. We generally respond in light of what we want to happen. Wanting and wanting-not lead the way in determining how we live. We want life to be like we want life to be and are always trying to arrange things according to how we think things ought to be.
What determines how things ought to be? Who says so? Who knows for sure? But/And we respond to what happens in light of how we prefer things to happen, in light of how we think things ought to happen, and that forms the context and direction of our life–trying to get things to be the way we think they ought to be, the way we want things to be.
Get rid of wanting and what guides the way we live? How would our life be if we did not care how things were/are? What would we do if it did not matter to us what we do?
MAGA wants to get rid of immigrants because immigrants are more likely to vote for Democrat candidates than Republican candidates and Republican MAGA’s want to tilt the table in their favor and that means reducing the number of people likely to vote for Democrats.
This is where we live. Democrat or Republican? How we answer the question tells the tale. Seals the future. Make things be what things will be. How good is the good we call good? Who says so? How do they know so? How do we know so?
We live in light of the good we call good but how do we know that is accurate? How do we know it is actually good for all concerned and not just the wealthy? Who is in charge of where we go from here as a nation? Whose best interests do they serve? Majority vote no longer means what is good for the majority of the people. What becomes of democracy then?
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