If we each live properly, we will collectively flourish.” ~ Jordan B. I hope that these rules and their accompanying essays will help people understand what they already know: that the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine Being, and that the willingness to take on that responsibility is identical to the decision to live a meaningful life. I’m simply offering the best I can manage. I am not for a moment claiming, however, that I am entirely correct or complete in my thinking.īeing is far more complicated than one person can know, and I don’t have the whole story. I have built up a large corpus of stories and concepts pertaining to them. I have been thinking and lecturing about such ideas for decades. It’s asking for everything.īut the alternative-the horror of authoritarian belief, the chaos of the collapsed state, the tragic catastrophe of the unbridled natural world, the existential angst and weakness of the purposeless individual-is clearly worse. It is in this manner that we can and must reduce the suffering that poisons our world. We must each tell the truth and repair what is in disrepair and break down and recreate what is old and outdated. We must each adopt as much responsibility as possible for individual life, society and the world. The answer was this: through the elevation and development of the individual, and through the willingness of everyone to shoulder the burden of Being and to take the heroic path. “How could the world be freed from the terrible dilemma of conflict, on the one hand, and psychological and social dissolution, on the other?
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