Containers of Containers -- A pamphlet on the Notion of Cosmolosophy and the Need For Change: If You Are Born Half Woman And Half Something Else

And then you are brought up in this society? Are you kidding me? Of course you need therapy!

And let's be clear about something else. Empathy is absolutely essential for a society to work properly. The really interesting thing about empathy, however, is that it really doesn't come from either side of my primary duality relationship; that is to say that neither Father Fortress, or Mother Earth have it come to them naturally. No, this is something that results only when the two sides cooperate in a balanced way.

Because empathy is both an act of imagination, as well as a disciplined way of confronting the world. The always to be exercised act of trying to see things from the other person's point of view; of trying to imagine the full scope of a reality from that point of view. putting yourself into the shoes of the other person, so you can consider, in as real a fashion as you can, what everyday life would be like if you had to make the choices the other person has been faced with, in the circumstances they have to deal with,

For some reason we have a real problem with this. Too often it seems we equate understanding, with trying to condone other people's actions. When, of course, nothing could be further from the truth.

True, if you do understand more about a person, you may be more inclined to, shall we say, not take quite as much offense by it, but that's a discipline too; trying to do the understanding thing without making too many unwarranted assumptions on either end of the spectrum.

The real problem is that choice presents both the individual, and the many with corresponding responsibilities: the individual to make their choices, and then take responsibility for them, but also for the many to do everything they can to create individuals capable of making good choices in the first place because that is a big part of the many's responsibilities. And certainly the overlap there makes for one difficult journey through life if we want the advantages of social organization.

The bottom line here, for what, in my opinion is just two variants of a common starting point, is that both be able to express themselves both rationally, and emotionally; which means they both have to be both providers, and nurturers; both establishers of structure, but also keepers of all of the pain, and joy, of being alive, and wanting to be there to help the young, or the old, understand how to better weather the turbulent flow of how life makes us deal with pain and joy; because deal with them we must.

Doing business as usual for the last several hundred years has not been especially helpful in how we go about this process, for either side of the variant divide. And now the planet is ready to just be done with us. Coincidence? I don't think so, but then I'm just a biased, crazy old dreamer.