It's just coming together so much.
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In child care, the thing that gets drilled for all the early childcare educators, and social workers, and parents classes and helpers . . .
"Give them simple choices."
Just the red shoes or blue shoes. Outside or inside right now?
Why? Because they might not at first be very receptive to broad choices. They usually just get confused, random, chaotic.
But is that the only reason we're taught that? What a marvellous conditioning. From the earliest age . . . the idea of choice must be simplified.
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During adult life. Work makes us free.
You can't eat if you don't till the land. Sure it's true. But it's incidental. It's like saying you can't lift off the ground using your muscles if you don't jump. Switches don't really change if they don't get switched. Red is not the same as green.
This gets codified as a philosophy. School becomes work, and work becomes mission. And when we struggle, we have inner work. When we die . . . more work must follow.
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At near stages of life?
Routine is everything. When's breakfast, when's supper, when you shower, when you sleep. Because routine is survival. What makes the plan work is the schedule.
But those at the end of life, still showing some cognizance of the matter . . . they themselves contemplate the meaningless of the whole order. They show frustration, and is it really because they're old and grumpy? Are they finally leaking anger from some broken realization that all of this is incorrect?
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What if kids are introduced early with the difficult but inviting concept: "You can think of your own choices. What would you like to do?"
What if adults are given the ongoing message: "There's nothing you really have to do. But this is how to breathe. This is how to eat. What's next for you?"
What if elders are given: "Well you could die. But do you could still have something here? What is it you will do now?"
What if popular digital interfaces functioned more like operating systems than like video games? "We don't really have a set of options listed. But you can type things in and find out what it does"
And imagine . . . an entire human life in this format . . . in death . . . "you've died. But like your life, there was no mechanical set of choices. You simply choose, and start going"
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The entire script has been flipped. Inverted, in the image of health and wellness.
When you actually see it. All around you, in your simple day everywhere you go . . .
it's really f*cking scarry! You have to really think about it for a moment as you look around, and you too might after reading this, suddenly feel the spark. It's not subtle. If it hits you, you'll know.