{"id":1999,"date":"2015-06-06T18:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T02:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T02:59:42","slug":"the-teardrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1999","title":{"rendered":"The Teardrop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe it should be called wiggling through evolutionary time, over millions of years. Of course it\u2019s multi-dimensional, very much so. But simplifying it all, in the cause of imagination: Most are in the bulbous middle, some a bit more ahead, \u201ccivilized,\u201d some more toward the tail, \u201csavage.\u201d But all are needed for progress, and the rear parts help the forward parts advance.<\/p>\n<p>Being multi-dimensional, ideas of higher or lower or forward and back should not be imagined to equal better or worse, more or less important. We\u2019re all in this together. Still, some are emerging into more encompassing consciousness than others, and as ideologically democratic as we may be, there are others who are more intelligent, educated, free, curious, and in other ways more than most. It\u2019s complicated by the fact that some people are excellent in technology but others find them to be moral degenerates. Who values whom as \u201cbetter\u201d then becomes a source of conflict which wiggles the tail, so to speak. (In time the \u201corganism\u201d will \u201cmove\u201d in other ways, just to play with the metaphor.)<\/p>\n<p>But at this point, that\u2019s the way it goes. Being trans-dimensional, beyond-space-time, the evolution of humanity cannot be evaluated by people caught up in their own value system\u2014 including being more articulate (i.e. handy with words), and therefore evaluated without bias. A measure of surrender is indicated, since all this is far \u201cbigger\u201d than our feeble brains can comprehend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe it should be called wiggling through evolutionary time, over millions of years. Of course it\u2019s multi-dimensional, very much so. But simplifying it all, in the cause of imagination: Most are in the bulbous middle, some a bit more ahead, \u201ccivilized,\u201d some more toward the tail, \u201csavage.\u201d But all are needed for progress, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}