With Every Mistake
23 06 2008The smallest things set me off. Well, small depending on one’s perspective. Rather than air the long and embarrassing list of things that make me cry, reasoning the implication I cry a lot is embarrassing enough, I’ll stick to what set me off today. The lyric title of this post.
“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.” Jesus, what sad, thanatotic irony. Rather than waste time with the rolling-boulders-uphill exercise of organizing and coherently expressing my thoughts on our individual and collective failings while super dooper doped up, suffice it to say, trite as it is, we are our own and each others worst enemies. Doomed to climb on each others backs in greed and lust and unworthily arrogant intransigence.
There are things we all know to be wrong. Most things in fact - 90% or more of human action. Though leave it to “professional ethicists” to fuck that fecund 10% up by attending to a rodent’s right to informed consent, it’s no wonder morality and ethics are confusing jokes to most people. Yet, for a variety of reasons, we continue to consciously choose the wrong. Whether brazenly doing the wrong action, by confusing what the right or wrong actions are in a given instance, or by not caring one way or the other - until what’s wrong impacts us personally, we pave the road to hell with those under our heels and or removed from our sight. Hoping our turn will never come, or that our turn is of sufficient distance that it doesn’t merit our immediate attention.
I’ve done my best to appeal to what’s clearly moral from rules based system. When that didn’t work, I tried appealing to first-person ethics. So far, nothing has worked. Or, it hasn’t worked as well as one might expect given the ‘support the troops’ fervor sticking to every person in the free world’s bumper. I realize now that very few possess the strength of their supposed convictions, or beat the conviction drum with ulterior motives. While that is sad commentary about people in general, the problem still exists, and needs correction. Who among you will stand for what you claim you believe?
