A day with Jesus;
Going about the Father's Business
This non-believer in churchianity does not need Jesus to have had been an historic personage. It is the Ideas of the story that are the living source of guidance for today.
A plea to reading friends: Please do not misconstrue that I, in any way, think of myself as having a special connection with Jesus. The title tries to frame the radical themes in the essay.
Wednesday 17 July 2024: Woke with the idea that I should start a news blog on my SubStack site.
I feel burdened with the self-imposed task of digging down to the rock bottom of social phenomena from where the chaotic froth of myriads of symptoms originate.
I see what I believe is the root cause of things but, I am in pain, Cassandra-like, as no one understands when I speak about these insights.
Knowing what needs to change and how, to create a society of New Humanity without being able to do anything that would validate that knowledge, I think about the story of Jesus with an impossible task and a personal program to do something about it without any guarantee of success.
For me, the idea of “New Humanity” is rooted in the fact that the future of humanity is as long, at least in possibility, as its two-million year past.
So the intriguing question is What man may be? For all we know, we may be a metamorphic species.
Now, assuming that human evolution proceeds in social and psychological terms and not biological, we can ask the metaphoric question, What can a tadpole know about being a frog?1
Somewhere, in introducing myself, I say that I am here to write about world-changing ideas because a ten-thousand year social pattern needs to be recast if our species is to remain viable in the judgement of nature’s evolutionary eyes.
I believe that only two pattern must be changed: The domination of the working majority by a clever and cunning minority, and War and Violence as a means of resolving conflicts of interest between peoples and nations.
These changes would open a wide avenue of progress towards the above mentioned future of two million years.
While thinking how to word these things, I came across Jeremy Griffith’s work and his book, FREEDOM the End of Human of the Human Condition:
[The book] brings the compassionate, redeeming, reconciling and transforming understanding of our lives that the human race has lived in eternal hope, faith and trust would one day be found and have so assiduously pursued since we first became conscious beings some 2 million years ago!
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Knowledge comes from questions, and the type o questions we ask determine the store of knowledge we have about the world
Some months later, 24th Nov’25
Asked Perplexity AI this question: What could a Jeff Bezos or a Bill Gates achieve on a desert island? It came back with a nine page answer backed by 124 web references:
This question strikes at the heart of a critical distinction between wealth and productive capability—a theme central to heterodox economic critiques of contemporary capitalism. The thought experiment of placing billionaires on a deserted island exposes how wealth is fundamentally a social construct that derives its value entirely from institutional frameworks, not from intrinsic productive abilities.
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One interesting answer is that the tadpole need not know anything about frogs. It is enough that it changes day by day in a way that it ends up by being a frog, living and moving in a world totally different from the one it must have thought of as the only possible one.
And, just to run this train of thought a bit further, think of the mystery of our own beingness: We come from somewhere at conception; live in a world for 9 months and die into another one—so familiar to us—and leave for somewhere when our space suit wears out.