Identifying yourself by, in, and through everyone's desires to achieve, be, or experience anything equally. To be is to want to do. And to sympathize all the more when even their simplest most modest dreams are limited, frustrated, or obliterated. That is worse than even their deaths. Killing their hopes and dreams can be to kill life itself more than just individuals, and justice is finding ways to make the most overlapping non-mutually exclusive ones to one day be realized for one and for all.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

People believe what they want to believe and merely sift through history to find the "proofs" to justify their wants. Once in power, they make sure opposing "proofs" for other beliefs are discredited, and as much as possible, removed from history, and as opposing ideas. If that is not possible, too many recent facts to remove, the PR machine kicks into overdrive on how such unpleasant unremovable clues are to be interpreted, laws on how they can be discussed, and savage outright ostracism and financial ruin of anyone who may think to voice a dissenting opinion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Most people are captive to their notions of the past and who or what their lives are about and staying true to that. There is nothing wrong with that. I am pulled by what I wish to have be in the future which is in many ways a part of my past, but I do not do so blindly. Some parts may have to happen to connect the dots and tie up a few loose ends, but only so that other branches not determined yet can begin in new directions not yet a part of any pasts, not predictable, and that is the path of life, into the unknown, pulled up by hopes of what is most important to achieve, peace in ourselves, peace within ourselves as individuals as well as peace between nations and other groupings. Like it or not, people will soon see the past is little to stand upon and that chair will be pulled out constantly and without warning more and more as we go along and must only look up to where we need to climb, paying less attention to what we are currently resting upon because it will not hold us up anymore, and must constantly be searching out yet higher ground.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Humanity is best described as apes which are very good at building things and at blowing things up (destroying things). The atomic bomb is really humanity's pinnacle achievement. Millions of man-hours, scouring the globe for resources, inventing and utilizing the very finest technologies (spending billions of dollars) all for the sole purpose of blowing things and people up. It combines the two best things people like to do, create and destroy, into one item (both ends, creatively, destructively, on scales beyond imagination).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Freedom and an enlightened intelligent society do not always go hand in hand harmoniously. If people are really free to believe whatever they wish, many will choose to believe much illogical twisted shit. That everyone will naturally automatically believe what is "right" or even agree what is "true" is a fantasy. If people to some degree must be lead to believe things for any social cohesion or agreement, it takes pains to keep the notion of freedom from being completely overrun in the process, and the current solution, the illusion of freedom without the substance, is not an answer, only a putting off of trying to reconcile these often conflicting aims and goals (of expectations and organization).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Power and freedom are opposite ends of the spectrum. Freedom is people doing whatever they want to do. Power is people doing (only) whatever the one who has it wants them to do. Worse is when people can be made to do things against their own interests, through suggestive manipulation, media control, or outright blackmail with no avenues that care. Until people can be totally manipulated without their knowledge covertly, the middle stage to getting there is the well worn path of secret police who are not so secret, just their methods and the public's lack of ability to keep check on their activities as even knowledge about it is criminal.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Groups forming to gain more control over their lives, seemingly gaining it only to lose it a different way. New groups forming to gain more control over their lives, seemingly gaining it only to lose it a different way. Infinitely repeat. Whenever something is written down, there are innumerable ways of getting around it and the race is on to find loopholes, gaps, or new ways of getting people to do only what you want them to do. Broad principles of human and civil rights become selectively enforced and new orders, new rules sometimes not even written down become the new rules of the game. Constitutions cannot weather the onslaught desires of others to control others and quickly become moot for whatever one could not think of to guard against, someone else will find a new way to exploit that and make everyone only able to behave as they wish and make all written rights meaningless. Freedom in any sense is provisional only while on the move or in motion. Once you rest, once you think you have it, it is already as good as lost. The desire to control others is in everyone and some will always have abilities more than others to achieve it. That push will never go away or lessen, so the counter push to constantly search how your freedoms are being undermined and gains unknowingly stripped away must also be a constant force just to keep them steady or intact. Conflicts only develop when those with power are too ignorant of the rules of the game. Give people what they demand, find a way to make it worthless. Give people what they demand, find a way to make it worthless. Infinitely repeat.