Columnist Dan Abernathy.

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This world of today, in which we live and try to find some type of charismatic comfort, has been polluted. We have lost the distinction and differentiation between what is truth and what is not the truth. The matters of undisputed facts between what is true and what is not are no longer of much importance.

The accuracy of truth has become increasingly distorted by the manipulation of which actually exists. Through the exploration of uncritical minds we have accepted a language of continuity to be easily controlled and oblivious of what is now real.

We need to believe not only the truths above but also what observation in life the truth can teach us. We should also acknowledge that we could be tempted frequently to diminish the greater in pursuit of the lesser. This however, should not be acted upon so frequently.

Throughout time we have been conditioned to evaluate, judge, compare and often condemn individuals based on their outward appearance, accomplishments and possessions. Too often, success is measured and defined by these attributes. This contrasting comparison has led too many of us to accentuate the outward as we diminish the inner workings of different people. This unwarranted obsession over several generations has sadly devalued the importance of one’s character.

This de-emphasis of the truth and the inner beliefs in favor of the outward has led to misdirected priorities. This misdirection and guidance often results in short-term material gains but also long-term character losses as well. This distorted adjudication has caused great confusion and disorder resulting in unquantifiable loss of lives and cultures.

Truth is being influenced and deceived by our culture. Success, as measured by our culture, may increase our options in life and provide us added comforts. Success is not measured or determined by profitability. Rather, the character being built determines it, and that begins with the inner thoughts being embraced.

The inner qualities that each of us possesses, what we call character, are what should ultimately guide our decisions and choices and determine our destiny. When our guide for inner growth is being achieved, then the character we are building will most certainly achieve true and lasting success.

I cannot feel alive, thrive and know freedom of being capsulized in a cultural container. This social ampoule is defined as any venue, bounded in space or time, which allows cultural production to be forced and controlled.

There is a seemingly vague importance to roles that boundaries play. A certain event starts at a certain time and stops at another time. This is a type of a needed boundary. In general, they are a way to recognize similarities between ideas about longitudinal and chronological structures, but the idea can also be applied to administrative, institutional or disciplinary assemblies as well. Not everything needs to be confined with boundaries and containers.
So within the seemingly working group on an adaptive system, we have boundaries and containers. They are created for a type of disciplinary means, specificity outside the context of created problems.

The assumption behind it is that venues, institutions, events or even projects themselves, when seen as cultural containers, can all be looked at in terms of their relative scale and qualities. The lines represent different types of boundaries and connections that are sequentially working to define more boundaries.
This is an attempt to simultaneously create and construct a framework to reassemble the social aspects that have been predetermined for us. A social container that is monotone and gray will keep everything flat in contrast and be able to keep control.

This scheme suggests that boundaries, instead of existing as barriers that are used to keep things apart, are exactly what enable collaboration. These containers aren’t some type of givens for utopia. The participants themselves construct them. As long as one is aware of their conditional character, they can be stepped into and out of at different times, depending on their usefulness to the task at hand. The problem is we are now being guided to not question the contents or step out of the social quagmire.

Eduardo Hughes Galeano, 1940 – 2015, whose words have been translated into 20 languages transcending orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis and history, wrote, “We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in a container culture, which despises the content.”

What this quote is suggesting is that we, as humans, place more value on the external accouterments of life, such as funerals, weddings and physical beauty. We, as a whole, should seek the substance of things, such as intellect and the inner lives of individuals.

These superficial attractions have been crafted, installed and accepted to give humanity a blind drape that we are not supposed to look behind. When we do, we see the truth of what is. We also have been thoroughly instructed to look the other way. It’s easier when we turn our heads back to the meaningless.

When we look beyond what we are told and see the truth we will see the big money holders of the world are the ones who practice the terrorism of currency. They are the ones with power, the ones that hold more influential power than troops, generals and the militaries. They never dirty their hands. They kill no one, but they control death while limiting themselves to applauding the show they generated.
These are the technocrats and international monarchs that rule all countries. They are neither presidents nor commanders-in-chief. They have not been elected, but they resolve the level of salaries and public expenditure, investments, prices, taxes, interest rates and subsidies, while watching the bottom-line for themselves.

There is danger in policy-makers blindly trusting the technocrats, the experts that clench the power and influence with industry and governments. They don't concern themselves with the prisons, torture chambers or extermination centers, although these house the inevitable consequences of their acts. The technocrats claim the privilege of irresponsibility by being neutral, or so they say. - dbA

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