The Danger and Promise of Free Will

We live in a society that chooses to not hold oneself accountable simply out of inconvenience. It is inconvenient to live life grounded and rooted in the foot stools of truth. It is inconvenient to be held to a certain standard. Your word is your bond, until it no longer is convenient to be help accountable.

All of mankind are made fearfully capable with the blessing of free will, but with free will comes danger. Danger is present in the face of free will because we have the power to choose and according to historic evidence and the evolution of global societies, we are notorious and predictably on track to repeat mistakes. To not learn.

We live in a society that welcomes the phrase ‘always learning’ as opposed to taking that phrase one step further and stating ‘always applying’. Why? Well the very promise of application bears a certain threshold of promise and accountability.. and while your word is your bond, no one really want to held to their word do they?

Accountability is not welcomed in such a society where women are taught they are ‘perfect the way they are’. Implying that they should not aspire to change nor should that pursue any form of transformation because they are already perfect. That ceiling is the antithesis of progress.

Men are encouraged to run away from responsibility as opposed to running toward it with fearless and steadfast perseverance to find purpose for their lives.

No matter what society may tell you, it’s not enough to just have a good rhetoric or to be a walking library. The mold that society cut out lacks depth and substance it is all surface and smoke and mirrors. Historically, societal values lead to a dark path made up of meaningless experiences that never mount to true meaning.

What society does not promote is accountability and responsibility. In contrast, a purposeful life begins with a polarized model. Accountability is the currency and wisdom is the product. A wise person learns from his own mistakes, but the wisest person learns from other peoples mistakes.

There are three kinds of characters in this world: (1) the one who plays the fool because they know no better, (2) the one who plays the fool despite their better judgement and does not learn, and (3) the one who plays the fool and learns from their own mistakes.

The silver lining lies in two different states of being. The state of being that chooses to abide by the laws and values of society or the state of being that chooses to otherwise not be conformed to this world, but to be transformed by one’s mind.

As a man thinketh in his heart, so it will be.