I am approaching my 81st birthday (2 months or so). Should I keep writing here on my off-beat, alternatively-aligned, and sometimes controversial topics, centred around an unruly and increasingly chaotic and often obscene world where the prevailing zeitgeist seems to be ‘nothing matters and anything goes’, and sane voices and conversations are avoided, voided, or simply shut down or besmirched? Should I shut up shop here, close my blog, and simply online-game my way out of existence for such time as remains for me to occupy my still enquiring, still learning, mind?
Well, I can tell you that while I have, if only briefly, entertained such thoughts, I have today made two discoveries of information sources, new to me, which have rekindled my desire to keep going, and which also give me room to expand on subjects close to my heart. So, for now at least, I have reason to keep adding to this blog. I want to write about both these things but of course that is not possible, due to the fact that one has to submerge oneself deeply into the waters of any subject worth writing about. Any other way results in the kind of shallow commentary I completely despise.
So, I have decided which subject I shall tackle first (neither are new to me of course), and that will begin very soon. Like within the coming week. But first, here is a brief word on something which applies to both and is in fact a personally long held axiom for many aspects of life, of which ‘writing’ is only an example. This old and venerable saying, which someone, somewhere, must sometime have said, and which may have a muslim origin, says:
If you don’t know where you come from, then how can you know who you are or where you are going?
Here is a short video, focused on that thought, followed by very good reasons not to follow ‘Traditions’ and to dump cultural norms, high or low (you can apparently quote Queen Mary on that) – In the Highest Tradition – If you don’t know where you come from…
Traditional values have their place, but should not hold back the search for truth. And they often lose their value, while continuing to bind us to outdated standards and cultural norms which hinder the accumulation and acceptance of the knowledge of who we are and where we came from, which would liberate and illuminate the direction where we need to go.
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