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Human beings are animals. The mind tries to coordinate sophisticated logic to explain what most animals do instinctively. People rationalize their decisions trying to minimize that they are subject to biological causal reactions. Weakness and lack of control is deemed otherwise.

Maybe, strength is when people achnowledge truth. The truth that people gravitate to those with money and/or power. The truth that human establishments are designed to create group think that protects and serves self interest. The truth that everyone is subjected to natural environments of living in a arbitrary world that likes to disguise itself as being "intelligent" enough to control elements around the immediate core.

Human beings build strength in numbers. When I was a kid growing up there was debate about systems of organization and political establishments. There is no debate today. WE WON! Our system is the proven system of human accord. The problem is that the system of consensus, commonly known as democracy, has failed miserably throughout the existence of humanity when people begin to confuse consensus for being truth.

Religious establishments are built on gaining consensus. When enough people believe something then it must be true. The so-called sacred establishments today were politicked into gospel in the early years of forming the establishment. Today, democracy and "freedom" is quickly becoming the next established religion in the same way that humanity with money and power created religions 10000, 5000, 2000, 1500, 1000, 200 years ago. Humanity fights for these establishments because wealth is determined by "who wins" the fight. Ultimately, the human mind creates a universal power that is on his or her side to justify the position of right.

An Hawaiian symbol comes to mind that means "hang loose", I believe. Humanity thinks of power being in the middle three fingers. We use the middle finger to express ourselves as being at the core of the universe, and everyone around us should just "f off". We use the fore finger to point as a measure of our authority over what we recognize. We use the ring finger to show off our attachments with pride showcasing our accomplishments and our establishments to which we belong. All of these represent desire to control our universe around us. However, the thumb provides extraordinary strength and the pinky provides simple, but equally important support to the mechanical purpose of the hand. These two balancing digits provide the essence of control that the three middle fingers only hope to attain.

(c) kenneth martin