Matrix of Great Reconciliation

“Thus abandoning the baseline right and wrong in all things and stepping into the realm of infinity.”

Matrix of Reconciliation 

I grew up believing that justice can be had if I can only sufficiently articulate the point of contention in my own favor. This family dynamic is the main underlying factor in my cognitive development, and so is now the focus of my life and artwork. As a child of the 1960s I was blessed with every advantage our culture offered, save only wealth. Still as a white man in that era I enjoyed every other advantage the times offered, I was hired for nearly every job I applied for; my youth, intelligence and regular appearance brought me acceptance at every social strata that I encountered.  In the 1970s I experienced discrimination vicariously, as women and so called minority persons were rejected out of hand in applying for open positions at my workplaces.  I think this, more than any reason I can name caused me to quit a number of good jobs, suffering anguish and disgust at the bigoted attitudes of employers and co-workers. I came to perceive my entire culture as fake and hypocritical.

My unconventional attitudes grew from these perceptions, and I drifted through the following decades seeking some way to elude the suffering I felt; without then really understanding what it was that caused it. I felt there must be some justification for this horrible injustice that I was missing, but as I investigated many interconnected subjects and whole fields of knowledge; I came to understand that the very institutions that purport to oppose discrimination and poverty in our society are in fact the greatest offenders; government, religions, educational institutions and the media are all dedicated to maintain themselves unchanged. As such they are all agents of great injustice, and in opposition to individual self-determination.

This realization led me to a simple cognitive analytic tool: to look carefully at perceived negative aspects of all things apparently positive, and also for positive aspects of seemingly negative ones. Thus abandoning the baseline right and wrong in all things and stepping into the realm of infinity. Ingrained in dominant culture are infinite financial ambitions that when viewed are on their face unjust in terms of limits and contradictions. For every good reason to do something there is always a counterpoint that at least discourages it. With the assumption that everyone decides what they will choose to do in any particular situation; also each person’s choices will vary widely according to circumstances. It is clear that the seeming intractable nature of injustice is rooted in the disconnected decisions of individuals. At this juncture the apparent complexity implied seems daunting, but in the perspective of infinity that complexity shrinks down to a clear sort of order. 

All of the varied decisions made by individuals in the context of a family, a class at school, or a work shift seem knowable or predictable, but drawing back the lens to consider the same of a whole city, an entire state, or nation: impossible. Remarkably all of this falls into predictable channels as a matrix of humanity becomes apparent, so that seemingly impossible complexities are found to contain countless similarities of intentions. We are only prevented from seeing these by our fear and distractions caused by diverse aspects of each life, personal concerns and responsibilities. These fears and distractions result in all poverty, injustice and violence in our culture.

Life Gives Matrix

Although the world’s problems are many this complexity is not so great in comparison to that part of every person’s life that is well adjusted and is positive in nature. We are hammered on to believe that sweeping change will be required to see the relief of war and injustice around the world. However infinity indicates that this is not the case with most persons in the world, discounting governments, churches and media.

Instead the keys to reconciliation lie in only small changes in every individual. Changes in circumstance perhaps; changes in heart, countless small changes in kind compassion that open eyes and minds to new power fed by intent.  No one is or can be right all of the time. We practice our best behavior among those we respect and love; not those we hate or fear. Knock on every door and one will find tragedy may strike close to any person some how. The power rests in every fear to overcome and turn the situation to a kinder conclusion. While it is not possible for us to change the hearts and minds of persons suffering and inflicting suffering remote from us in Syria, Somalia, Iran or Korea; it is fully possible for each of us to change our self.

What possible effect can yours and my changes of perspective, into kinder manner have? One’s change always affects those around us, even when this change seems only slight. But in the aggregate, by caring to educate ourself to see the inter-connected nature of our world honestly, as we release selfish fears without great loss of our time or resources, we recognize that most of our concerns for money and attention is spent in mere attempts to distract our self from our own suffering from infinite causes.

In this century essential power has shifted rapidly downward; and will continue do so for each next succeeding generation due to technology and its incumbent delivery of access to those previously disenfranchised persons, of real education if not accreditation or degree. Thus building for our self, a stake in an improved future for them self: and incrementally the whole world.  

In the past the power to make these important decisions affecting each of our lives was held remote from us in the hands of leaders, churches and industry. Today that power has quietly shifted down into our own hands if we are brave enough to grasp it tightly for our self and lightly for others world wide. A matrix is a system of individuals who are autonomous and equivalent in systematic ambiguity and therefore in harmony with infinite positive aspects as conceivable in short chronology. What do you say?

Conflicts Resolved in Matrix

As human beings we must at last value ourself and one another. The PTSD we all feel from infinite causes affects our ability to trust, and to tell the true feelings we all have, but are too ‘polite’ to express openly for hurting others feelings; or revealing our secrets. With life security universal, the negative consequences of poverty, crime, addiction and abuse shall evaporate. Then the bad decisions and actions those promote in any person will not arise in their life as a positive option in any way. The savings to taxpayers thus accrued will certainly justify the attempt. 

The premise here is: I list some 77 conflicts, plus nations experiencing conflict, just off of the top of my head in an hour. After some consideration I have assigned values to each nation’s conflict(s) according to categories: hate; bad leaders; economics; criminal; civil war; and eco-threat. Described here denoting region [continents, plus the green water aspects of the planet, including certain nations], in fairly arbitrary choices.  I assert that a dollar amount exists, and a chronology of accommodation may be assigned; to resolving each individual problem across the board, beginning with Variable Universal Happiness and development of technology including world-wide 3D Printing Hubs to serve every person in the matrix of humanity.

I further assert that institution of universal food and medial security, shelter and education as a free utility will cost a fraction of the price of continuing the conflicts presently sending migrants and refugees onto desperate and unhappy journeys. With just that the cause of all conflicts are half way to being solved.

The categories water and Fukushima are the ying and yang of, the life and death of the earth from today forward. The world is not doomed yet; but we must preserve the waters of our planet as soon, and as broadly as possible. The atomic disaster in Japan is the responsibility of the whole world: to study and contain, to save what may be saved of the Pacific Ocean, and our planet earth.

Hatred, fear, envy greed, these unfortunate aspects of human behavior that spill into government, religion, or corporate practice result widely in conflict and tremendous expense in all measures. The extent to which the domestic politics of any nation is taken up with these negative human aspects, rather than more proper and neutral administrative function; or more positive healing actions is a measure of its worth or poverty of spirit.

This poverty of spirit may be translated directly into budgetary deficit, there lays a calculable cost to the citizens of that nation in immediate real terms. Terms that need not alter radically, but only be changed just so, creating windfalls where deficits once loomed.

 

Axiomatic Matrix

Per the axiom of reducibility we may safely say that widespread solutions of conflicts will not cause new, more drastic consequences than do the present costs of ineffectual government, war, crime, famine, disease and natural disasters cause today.  This being the case there is no cause to fear to look for common solutions worldwide to common or similar problems. It is in the assumption that any nation’s problems are unique to itself, and contained within its borders that can make any real solutions seem radical; or at best far-fetched. It is not strange though, to recognize that every person has something to contribute to their community and culture. But also, clearly for some there are fixtures and forces that prevent them from reaching their full human potential, and thus the world is deprived of each one’s full productivity, and inversely so their spending prowess.

With the gradual institution of variable universal happiness, the provision of food, shelter, health care and education as free public utilities everywhere in the world, the negative costs of poverty, crime and injustice will decline measurably, and the decline will reduce criminal enterprise, war and desperation, along with the very great costs in money, fear and time in every single region of the world in rapid fashion.

Eliminating poverty and increasing productivity are good things in themselves, and while it seems necessarily expensive and a prolonged process to eliminate poverty and injustice, there are even many in contention as to whether it is a good idea to relieve a person from their poverty at all. Such thought is born or fear and greed, and care for gaining and maintaining wealth and position at all cost. Infinity dictates that the more the complexity the more simple the solution must be at last. Here, all I am saying: is give peace a price. With that, it shall be met easily.

Matrix of Commonality

The key to resolving many complex conflicts all at once is not in attempting major, sweeping changes, but instead in careful analysis and arriving at small compromises that are sustainable, and agreeable to all. These can perhaps be suggested more clearly from a distance, but at last may be implemented only by persons who live within the bounds of each conflict itself. Certainly this is a very simplistic assumption, but clearly the answers to all conflicts can only be found thus, if we intend to dissuade the use of violence, coercion and robbery. 

Using the model of 77 conflicts described above we soon discover these have more in common than they contrast one another; so thus it suggests that individual people around the world share this characteristic. Also in common is the fact that close and personal problems are inevitably more difficult to find reconciliation than those seen from a distance as more abstract and impersonal may be. Every individual conflict between nations, or between persons, is a tapestry of woven threads, some fully contained within its own borders, but others that extend outside of them. 

This complexity itself may indicate or imply that the problems are unsolvable, but in a larger perspective these inter-connected strands of conflict hold important avenues into compromise and solution. Even though each cause of a conflict may be chiefly or wholly internal, often these avenues result from outside, abstract reckoning. The very fact that so much injustice, and so many conflicts are deeply rooted in past events, even sometimes ancestral in origin, lend truth to this assertion.

To presume that this chronological aspect can make an intractable conflict impossible to resolve denies the infinite aspects contained in every person. In fact I suggest that all conflicts in common share the minimization of the value and the potential of the majority affected by each conflict now existing in the world. Thus I assert this is the result of the cynicism of the minority holding wealth and power; this cynicism is not natural, but is the result of the post-traumatic stress caused by the past constraints of limited regional resources imposed by our past pre-modern technological civilization. It is only now that the equalizing influences of modern communications, transportation and technology all allow us the promise of reconciliation by means of Variable Universal Happiness.