Explanation of Three Part Work:
Thoughts of the Collective Self
This writing is made to be a view into
the thought process of someone who looks at humanity for all its
faults and all its beauty, seeing how first how people realize their
devotion required to others, their obligation to them and eventually
their own realization of the meaning of it all, which verifies the
first two realizations. The narrator is the internal dialogue of the
person in their thoughts as they are dreaming for hope and reason in
life eventually finding truths inherent in simply being alive.
The narrative is driven by the thoughts
of one continually driven to find a greater more unifying meaning to
it all, that in purely reason based emotional argumentation can prove
through logic itself why those smarter and greater than them are
ultimately obligated to devote their resources to a greater good.
The narrator's thought process is
actually an allegory for humanity itself, using statements that on an
individual level and a group level are non-contradictory and
ultimately have the same meaning. The ultimate take away is that
perfection itself in mind the representation and the individual
manifestation of genius is the realization that if a statement is
fundamentally perfect everyone must collectively agree on it as being
true. The idea then is that the narrator is a genius and they become
ever closer to the collective intelligence of humanity itself when
they find collective, universal truths among us all that are
ultimately non-contradictory for both the narrator and also everyone
else.
I: Devotion
You sacrificed your time, your efforts
the energy in your bones so I could breathe.
Life from those fingers with energy you
gave to me bound in promises and hope for me.
To dream as if you could always dream
the way I could be.
Sacrifices I cherish like the air I
breathe.
You taught me there's greater things
than just me for there always exists inside, myself and a cause.
Nothing could be as inseparable as a
life with a purpose and a life with a point to live by.
For we're both as rich and full as the
promises we keep and ourselves we keep the promises inside.
That doesn't mean you ever pray, for
we're still ultimately alone but what we're worth.
If I told you how you ever felt so free,
would you question how we could ever be so bound?
To these obligations and promises we
place on ourselves to each other and also to ourselves.
Lost ones are never free and free ones
are never lost.
For as soon as we show our worth we are
required to give to others all that we are.
In this the greatest are the ones which
never are anything other for they can never not be.
People question how they could find
such grace, character or brilliance and they wonder.
Though honestly if they haven't reached
greatness they haven't wondered enough.
For trial by fire is very much trial by
pain and one must work if they are ever to reap.
II: Obligation
In this we are bound by not just what
we do but what we dream we can do and eventually become.
For if you can see it you can do it and
in seeing greatness you are chosen by it and you are indentured to
its service.
Success is then not a test it's a way
of life for those that follow its favor.
In this we are bound by what we do and
also what we don't do.
We eventually become more like then
what we choose and what we never choose we are forgotten by.
III: Realization
Brilliance then is the nature of
knowing all we know and forgetting all we never had a chance to.
Then the only way to know anything at
all is to know others as deeply as possible and ourselves as well.
Then truly if one can look into a
mirror and see not just themselves but a part of everyone they've
ever known and believed in they know they are truly wise.
In this the only bounds of genius are
how much you understand the truth and beauty of those around you and
also the truth and beauty reflected in yourself.
This is why the greatest people in
humanity have never ceased busying themselves and learning, not
because they are limited by their brilliance but because they are
limited by their time to be.
And this is why if an idea can save not
just you but also others, you have effectively brought salvation on
people themselves.
Though I'm being too optimistic because
it's not the idea that saves people, it's good people using the idea
for the greater good.
In this no idea is ever perfect as
anything anyone believes at any time can be used to take advantage of
others.
For we are masters of the tools we
create to save us and also pawns.
As the more powerful the weapon used
the greater advantage one has to subjugate another or to set them
free.
I fear for the future, not because we
are doomed by it but because we are doomed or liberated by the ones
that control it.
I don't believe great people are also
wealthy people though I believe wealthy people can become great
through using what they have to help the poor.
I think the wealthier someone is more
the greatest obligation they have is to help the poor if not for
themselves but for humanity itself.
If humanity needs the greatest of us to
lead it how then should we be bound by not our possessions but by
only our brilliance?
This is why I feel technology can save
the world and is probably the only thing that could, because the
smarter someone becomes the greater they become to others.
Then our denominator for intelligence
is by the creativity someone uses to turn possessions into power and
also ultimately their heart is determined by how that power gained
ceases to consume their continued devotion to others. Genius is
determined then by how someone balances their life in the eyes of
others from what they leave behind and its ultimate impact on people
when they're gone.
