(10-25-2012, 10:07 AM)zenmaster Wrote:(10-25-2012, 08:57 AM)Patrick Wrote:(10-24-2012, 11:33 PM)zenmaster Wrote: It's a balance. When you don't have authority, you have mob mentality.
It may be useful now. But the more we form our social memory complex, the less need for authority we will need.
While that may be useful to know for future reference, living here and now means dealing with what we are offered and may provide now, in actuality. This is how we learn and eventually transcend needs such as these, by first appreciating and accepting our conditions. If we put that off to the future, nothing happens.
That's why I did vote in our recent election and why I do not worry about what I eat or how technology should be used. Or the form that my help will take.