In my mind
most bridges can either open
or are high enough to let good ideas through

but looking around me
most people seem to live
where no ideas float
or bridges are too low
unable to open

Some of my notes from today that somehow belong together. 

We live in a strange world. For 2000 years, the Christian churches have tried to sell their story, backed by mighty institutions, governments, and armies that did their bidding, and still most people don’t believe their story, while the rest made it into one of their own. And what about the real thinkers, the philosophers? Yes, they have their institutes, the universities that are dwindling away. Their truths come closer to what that might be, but who still believes them these days?

Once, we apes just lived our lives, and from child to child we learned our place. Not only where we were, but also what these hands can do and who the others are. We started to see the world and became aware that we did. We became aware of our thoughts, not in words but in emotions, and somehow connected them to our drives. We lived, as a species, much longer with our consciousness expressed through emotions, drives, and feelings than with the words we now often misconstrue for our consciousness.

We often know what is good for us. That’s what you tell yourself, but these little words are no match for the part of us that is much older, has had much more practice, and is also cemented much deeper in society at large. We vote for the baboon who ruins our country because it didn’t speak with words, but with emotions.

Some people are ruled more by their words than by their emotions, even if only slightly. Or their emotions better understand the blindness of their goals and also remember that no one is the same person in the morning or evening or on a Wednesday as on a Sunday.

All of this goes on between our two ears, and no matter what story we hear and feel, it is our story, and for some reason it seems to be taken for real. I do believe that there are ways to live a life where you believe less of what you feel and think. The reason why I think that is, is because we do make progress living together as 8 billion egocentric prisoners on a big world but so close together.