What I Have Learned

We each find ourselves in our own concrete human situation.

It seems to be various configurations of language, experience, and desire.

Our life seems to be a sequence of such configurations.

We find ourselves dependent on each other and on our natural environment.

And yet we are free and must choose.

We fear our freedom and our dependency and seek security in systems.

And yet systems often fail us and seem arbitrary and absurd.

So we test our systems and patch them and make them better.

Or we wage war against anything that seems to endanger our favorite system.

Or we make our solitary way, gaming the systems we have no say in.

We need playfulness to set the wisdom of our systems free.

We need tested texts that we can rely on until we get something better.

We need a balance of freedom and mutual assistance.