Revolution

I was meditating this morning on a quote.

“Take flight every day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Each day is a “spiritual exercise,” alone or in the company of a man who wishes to better himself… Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition just. Many are those who are entirely absorbed in militant politics in the preparation for social revolution. Rare, very rare, are those who in order to prepare for revolution wish to become worthy of it.” - Georges Friedmann 1942

Which leads me to the concept of “What it takes to destroy is not what it takes to build”.

I say that because we have all of the people, technology, need, desire, and the capacity to change. Yet those in charge, or … rather, those with the money, are choosing not to change. And the question rings out through all of the world of those who desire change.

Why? Why? Why?

I believe that it is because of the concept, “There are no ethical billionaires”.

And so what it took to get to the top, to have that authority, to have that power, take that money, get that control, it is through a process of destruction. And destruction in their mind also equals success.

Think of AI, a powerful technology, the way of the future for revolutionary thinkers. Yet what did it take? Stealing from professors, authors, engineers, artists, mathematicians, philosophers, choreographers, content creators, peoples general identity and throughout leaders of humanities history, all to feed for their success.

So, their concept of what it means to build, what it is to be successful, is interwoven with destruction.

Thus to conceive of an entirely new beginning that cannot be built on the precipice of destruction.

One cannot war for peace nor can you destroy to build.

So I think of the quote, and how it says, “Rare, very rare are those in order to prepare, wish to become worthy.” For what does it mean to be worthy?

In this context and in my mind's eye of meditation it is, perhaps balance.

It is the balance of the hardness necessary to hold such large concepts and the care to grow such large beginnings.

And that's what I was meditating on this morning.