My Community of Excellence posts haven't been on vacation. I have been negligent in posting, but for a good reason. I have been trying to work out in my mind a concept so basic that it absorbed almost all of my concentration.
In posts past I have mentioned that we humans have two competing motivations, the desire to conquer versus the desire to belong. This concept has grown in importance to me. It has now risen to be a featured element of both the novel and the screenplay I am currently working on. And in all these weeks I have come to the conclusion that it's really not a contest, but an evolution.
The desire to belong cannot be denied. It will eventually overwhelm the desire to conquer. It has to. It is the spiritual motivation of the two. And the soul is of a higher order than the heart, mind, and body.
Look around at today's news. The Arab spring grew from a concept that despotism, even in the name of God, will not be tolerated. Governments of the people shall not perish from the face of the Earth. In fact they will replace all other forms.
Also, we are seeing women strive to emerge from the second-class nature of their place in cultures all around the world. Women are people, not possessions. They have contributions to make, both collectively and individually, that are indispensable to the future of our race. Just as every dehumanized community of humans in our past, they will overcome. The extinction of misogyny is now just a matter of time.
As is the exaggerated prominence of the right to bear arms. Arms are needed for either conquest or to defend oneself from being conquered. The right was granted in the Constitution as a mechanism of defense for a fledgling nation who could not protect itself any other way. This is no longer any issue. The role of guns in our society has changed and the most powerful feature of the Constitution is its Amendment feature. This country has the right, and the responsibility, to amend the Constitution so that is a statement of our country TODAY, not in 1787.
If we stop a moment and consider the enormity of Nature, the Universe, God's creation - how ridiculously miniscule can any Earthly, human conquest be. But, in this same vein, how vital belonging becomes.
Do the math. The Earth is a finite planet. Enormous to us, at best middling in size to its sister planets, but a mere speck when stars are considered. There will come a day when seven billion will grow to eight billion, then nine, then ...? At what point do we humans tax our planet beyond its resources.
We are destined to seek other worlds. Or perish. If we are to survive we must become more Excellent. And no one can be Excellent alone. Not even a Conqueror. Belonging is the only way for us to grow as a people, grow so as to complete our mission - to evolve closer to God.
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