The Physics Of The Human Equation

"Look, Bill, if this is about reliving the 60's, you can forget about it, buddy. The movement is dead."

"Yes, of course! Hence the name: movement. It moves a certain distance, then it stops, you see? A revolution gets its name by always coming back around in your face. You tried to kill me you son of a bitch... so welcome to the revolution."
- 'Under Siege'

Name the movement: #metoo,#timesup,#neveragain,#blahblahblah. Our guilt comes to the surface but guilt won't save us - not one little bit. But we perpetually need the appearance of going in the right direction because the opposite "is too hard to think about", as one TV talking head put it. Yeah, well, try living it if you think just contemplating it is hard. And, yes, it is a living hell. But the one question no one will ask is: why are so many people in pain? Why are kids lashing out with guns? Why does so much abuse pervade us as a planet? We don't ask those questions for a reason but until we do change for good won't come.

But I understand it's pleasant to think otherwise.

For it's the people living in bubbles who drive us. And I get the allure of that. You're living the high life in San Francisco, making big bucks, "transforming the world", feeling you're making a difference that justifies your sense of entitlement to run roughshod over that very same world. Who doesn't want to have their cake and eat it too? Those without the money and power also want their bubble. A superhero politician is going to save us, some mythical force will set things right so we don't have to, just fill in the blank on something saving us. It's all hogwash.

The fear welling up inside us turns just about everything into a religion these days, with technology being front and center to provide us "solutions" for our wicked ways. We are both Pontius Pilate and Judas rolled into one: betraying our future while washing our hands of it at the same time. We treat the fiction of nations as fact. We treat the illusion of money as reality. We treat the laws of men as the laws of Nature. In doing this, our suffering will grow and grow.

“We connect people. Period [unless they show a female nipple!!!!]. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people.”
- Facecrook executive

So nation can rise against nation but it makes us no less one world, one people. We can sanctify torturing people for not having money but that makes it no less a human crime. We can justify in our minds poisoning our planet but that makes us no less dependent on it. Yes, there is a movement afoot - but we dare never speak of it. Things we see but never say because it's just too horrible to contemplate the eventual outcome. So we are creating a revolution whether we choose to face that or not. It's the factor of human misery we fail to put into our equations.

Regardless of the reason for misery, every miserable person is part of the #destroytheworld movement. No literature or Facebook page or rallies are needed for this movement. It happens all on its own as each person decides life is not worth living in the way we have deemed it. A tipping point is reached, sometimes without even fully realizing it. Slaves pray for the world to die and those dependent on slaves pray for the world to die. It's the true and final no-win scenario.

"The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes anymore--cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; Ferraris and Maseratis; and human beings sold as slaves into iPhone factories and fast food outlets.

The merchants who sold these things and gained their wealth from her will stand far off, terrified at her torment. They will weep and mourn and cry out: "'Woe! Woe to you, great city, dressed in fine linen, purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls! In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!' Every sea captain, and all who travel by ship, the sailors, and all who earn their living from the sea, will stand far off. When they see the smoke of her burning, they will exclaim, 'Was there ever a city like this great city?'

"Rejoice over her, you heavens! Rejoice, you people of God! Rejoice, apostles and prophets! For God has judged her with the judgment she imposed on you." Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: "With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again."

-Book of Revelation

Good fucking riddance. We can discuss and debate all the policies we want but we fail to factor in plain old human happiness into our equations. And I don't mean the false, bribed happiness that rots the conscience. But the kind the fulfills the heart and destroys our lies. Because that's our Boolean choice: destroy our lies or destroy our world. Make all the arguments you want for a formula for a loveless world to have a future but it only makes life worse. Until we understand the human equation all other equations are irrelevant.