Divide by Zero
The Living Force
kenlee said:I was also thinking that it might be like that. It’s like in the everyday practical world we have to apply common sense to any situation. For example we have to look both ways when crossing the street, we have to apply common sense principles in running a business and so on. Common sense stuff. A good businessman might be very knowledgeable, practical, adventurous and very aware in his business and do all those necessary things which make him a good businessman. But when it comes to the bigger picture he might not even have a clue. So he blocks it out because the bigger picture is incompatible with his business. His awareness is limited and conditioned and he still lives within the domain of the General Law although he is still to a certain extent protected within this framework because of his expertise.
Kenlee, you have made a good point there. It explains why our economy is in a mess. The businessmen know how to make money NOW, but fail to have the foresight to see what would keep the system working years later. Because of their lack of common sense regarding give and take, they take take take, until the system is dry and then blame everyone else for it. With some view of the bigger picture, a businessman would forgo the huge profits now, for a sustainable system in the future.
The only problem that I see with businessmen who look for the long term is that they get screwed now. Responsible banks, for example, are being forced to take up higher costs for FDIC insurance, even though their loans are responsible. It seems like in this world, irresponsibility is rewarded.
Same thing goes for the bonuses, which are apparently rewarded regardless of a loss or a gain. The system is rewarding bad choices, without foresight of the future situation.
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It reminds me of this quote:
"At the same time in examining the life of humanity as we know it historically we are bound to acknowledge that humanity is moving in a circle. In one century it destroys everything it creates in another and the progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it. Speaking in general there is every reason to think and to assert that humanity is at a standstill and from a standstill there is a straight path to downfall and degeneration. A standstill means that a process has become balanced. The appearance of any one quality immediately evokes the appearance of another quality opposed to it. The growth of knowledge in one domain evokes the growth of ignorance in another; refinement on the one hand evokes vulgarity on the other; freedom in one connection evokes slavery in another; the disappearance of some superstitions evokes the appearance and the growth of others; and so on."
-Gurdjieff, Quoted by P.D. Ouspensky in In Search of the Miraculous
Which makes me think, with the proper FRV would this be avoided?