hi i'm charles roland perry and this is alternative view on seattle community media comcast channel seventy seven i've been thinking a lot about what people need what they actually need not  superficial things or the big deal media things the political parties the political agendas the social agendas and various self definitions that are layered on top of who we actually indulge me you can change the channel  stream science and discovering amazing things here we go twenty years into the new century it is horribly clear yourself definitions and isms we brought with us from the th century are inaccurate and inadequate political economic and social systems upon which billions of people rely have proven to be physically and psychologically destructive our current forms of civilization worldwide are inherently self destructive and humans are proving this proving this inadequacy with violence every day all day worse than that the leaders of governments creators of wealth dogmatic scientists and the leaders ready of academic institutions old personal self definitions which continue to cause environmental psychological and social destruction ego isn't rich and powerful people often defines the course and content of the daily survival of everyone else so handful of people are destroying the free will destroying the bright future and potential joy of billions of people some honest men give credit where it is do they do not believe their personal ready genius is a product of a f that period strands of d n a nor the product of their personal scientific political economic or social beliefs honest man give credit to god for all valuable creative ready action which occurs inside human brains and specifically occurs inside their own human brains the definitions of god will vary vastly from what honest man to the next but the basic understanding is the same god is responsible for sustaining our lives and all good which occurs in our lives and all worthwhile creative action also free will is essential to anything worthwhile anything that humans do whether it is paul babcock being saved by the personal self sacrifice of an elk in alaska or all throckmorton holding up his bible and thanking god for his water pump the water pump that saved lives in africa thanking god for every technical inspiration that enters his mind these men place ready supreme importance on spiritual experience and spiritual guidance such experience and guidance be on the capacity of any human teacher and beyond the capacity of dogmatic science spiritual experience is tangible experience though no current scientific dogma or physicist is able to quantify these experiences this leads some people to believe the whole idea of spiritual experience is hooey nonsense fallacy invented by creative imaginations not basis for any physical or spiritual reality my personal experience as a composer of sympathies and a composer of concertos puts me in the same camp with all that and l throckmorton in college and from a few good teachers i learned some basic skills basic musical skills but my best musical ideas come from elsewhere i've never felt my best musical ideas originated exclusively inside my own mind i work ready with the ideas in deliberate and sophisticated ways but the essential starke of every good idea comes from god being a collective creative consciousness outside of my own mind but inclusive of my own mind this is what i tapped into when i open my mind to the larger mind i'm able to compose symphonies and string  tets and a wide variety of music in a wide variety of styles this is my tangible personal experience of how creativity works this is experience this isn't dog i now believe no technologies can prevent the self destruction of the human race spiritual growth is the only path to create and sustain any way of life which we would call civilized without new spiritual growth among the leaders of people and among hundreds of millions of individual people humanity can only look forward to more death more suffering and essentially no freedom at all specifically there will be an end of free will for ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent of humankind a very small group of people will decide what the rest of us do so we need some better more accurate more reliable more useful ways to define ourselves what would better more accurate more reliable more useful self definitions look like what primary facts about ourselves are essential to daily decision making and to our personal health and happiness let's start with a list of things things we need beyond air beyond water food shelter and a little sex know that these are the twelve things i believe all of us need spiritual experience beauty i list those together because i believe they're one and the same spiritual experience and beauty number one number two freewill number three primary self definitions number four secondary so definitions number five truth number six job number seven creative action number eight satisfying work number nine kindness number ten social interaction number eleven ideas beyond individuality and number twelve courage spiritual experience is universal to all cultures and religions across all historical periods we have an innate need for moments of oneness a spiritual awareness the on the busy demands of our millions of people experience a unity with the world around their religion so grown from these innate needs and offer detailed explanations and cosmologies to help us further understand our spiritual needs and explore those needs a large portion of spiritual experience has no larger definitions than beauty our capacity to enjoy and seek beauty is the primary spiritual need shared by almost all humans a field of flowers a sunset a dark sky full of stars mountains rivers for us and things of our own creation music art stories are many gardens and crafted landscapes all of these we respond to at a primal spiritual level a primal need for beauty we might spend years trying to define exactly what beauty is  why we like it so much freewill free will ready is as essential as a spiritual experience a spiritual experience might not even ready be possible without free will most sentient beings from mice to alls to wolves whales and panda bears all enjoy and need free will freedom to do what they want to do when they want and humans are no exception few of us care to be locked up and told what to do every moment of our day some people prefer ready structure more than others and use their free will within social and economic structures built for them by other people built for them by leaders people naturally divide themselves into leaders and followers and many or both depending on the place and time in the specific circumstances leaders and followers re both essential to the progress of humankind and under the best circumstances both leaders and followers benefit from their roles and retain much of their personal free will this is not the case when leaders or followers are forced along paths they did not choose and has that they never even imagined possible they never even imagined they could possibly ever agree to never three primary so definitions there are spiritual movements of thought to forward the idea of interfaith consciousness jews christians muslims buddhists hindus sikhs taoist and others finding common ground among their core beliefs these are sincere attempts to craft self definitions which apply to all people regardless of incompatible details within various belief systems psychologist biologists has a system mathematicians philosophers and poets also weigh in with their modern opinions we can say most of us have a belief in god defined in a one million ways to describe a consciousness with a capital c a consciousness outside of our human consciousness perhaps containing our human consciousness primary so definitions often include some version of our relationship to god however we choose to define god many people sense divine presence a consciousness greater than their own  without placing that experience into any specific religious context many people don't think much about any kind of god and choose to define themselves in more monday non religious ways and even those people have spiritual experience the fact of the th century is many smart minds of the th century devoted a lot of energy to convincing us all we have no soul we have no spiritual self and spiritual experience are simply various combinations of deliberate fiction overstimulated imagination perhaps indigestion or just plain who we regardless of all that people still have religious and spiritual experiences regardless of anything the very smart and pushy people of the th century karla's of whatever they wrote in their thick and expensive textbooks all attempts to reduce our self definitions to biomechanics and chemical brain stimulation have proven to be inadequate to describe our daily reality the daily experience of being alive academic science has never successfully described our active perceiving the world around us it seems to me our bodies ready are amazing radio receivers for stimuli no quantifiable by physical and academic and social ready sciences in our place in time no one person has complete and accurate information so each of us must form provisional opinions about what it means to be a human being living on planet earth so perhaps a good place to start would be building useful and reliable s and imagine a provisional self definition something we can change later when we learn new things perhaps a provisional self definition like this i am a human being a physical body with an active busy mind able to reason able to have emotional responses a receiver of spiritual experiences this marvelous combination of awareness allows me to sense my innate belonging and participation ready of life forces ready far larger than my own body and a mind which allows me to sense a larger consciousness at times i feel i essential part of nature not only can to all other living things i am part of the same larger spirit which contains all of all aspects of our planet all aspects of the universe which contains our planet i am part of something simply too large to completely imagine i sense my oneness with the universe and everything in the universe if i don't use that larger definition if i define myself in smaller ways as if we humans were the freaks of nature the outsiders essentially separate from all other living things then i limit the possibilities before i even walk outside my door at the other extreme if i view myself as superior to all other living things by virtue of my strands of d n a and thumbs i limit myself definition by telling my ego boosting self those ego boosting fantasies and lies to say i'm better than all other things well just put me in the forest with a grizzly bear without any of my clever gadgets and see who walks out number four secondary self definitions secondary self definitions are long lists of personal preferences or personal inclinations only marginally related to our primary self definitions some items will feel innate others may have been forced on us by time in place by the time and place we grew up in or where we work or where we live it is very important to recognize what is and what is not a deliberate self definition self definition assimilated from elsewhere or zorg from the people around us some ideas we inherit we absorb surroundings and we might not question the accuracy of these ideas and tell some big problem comes along and forces us to examine those inherited ideas unfortunately in the united states of america in two thousand and nineteen many secondary soft definitions and many inherited self definitions are taken to be the primary self definitions and are not given any critical examination of any kind by choosing only a small set of ideas and defining themselves by those ideas people limit the definitions of who they are limit their own potential limit their social circles and limit their view of other people for example an l g b t q person a mormon person and an angry black man walk and this is the joke which of these people are most likely to tell jokes about the personal identity of the other two people none of them they really have nothing much to say to each other each of these people have a social agenda and a specific worldview which they believe holds a high moral ground each person is far too self involved to truly consider the beliefs ready and values held by the other two and none of them have a sense of humor when it comes to social ready political ready economic or religious identity they all want to be taken very seriously and secure their human rights and have laws and we get busy forcing our worldview on other people we don't have much time to understand the other people or define ourselves in new ways we might cause generations of animosity when we don't have time to create a better civilization for everyone when we are certain we have all the answers and certainly our views are morally superior to the views of everyone else this is a huge problem when small secondary short sighted self definitions take over the small self definitions divide people and often make people want to kill each other or push each other around from one generation to the next when people stop believing their spiritual beings personally connected to every other being walking on the planet they can become truly nasty pushy arrogant bastards always wanting to have their way regardless of the consequences they face off in the street and yell at each other they lose all inhibitions beat each other up or drop bombs on each other arrogant intolerance of ideas and other peoples way of life ideas and ways of life with which run contrary to our own way of life such arrogant intolerance is one sure way to destroy a civilization do we truly believe our world view is so completely accurate and so important we must kill other people who do not share our view this is the behavior which is shaped much of human history killing people with wars killing people to make money that is shaped most of our human history so here's the truth the truth is not a matter of opinion truth has verifiable tangible results few people want to make decisions or create important plans using inaccurate information most of us prefer the truth most of the  time now here's an important truth lies have an important and useful roles to play in our lives and most of us use small lies to defuse tense situations or for expediency to get something done with a little lie or were diplomatic purposes to prevent that things from happening simply by telling a white lie it would be irresponsible to declare all lies are bad all the time that would be at an accurate assessment of the history of laws so we have a small lies the useful lies the white lies and then we have the big lies the big lies the lies told by governments by corporations lies promoted by educational institutions and advertisers these are the lies which might be accepted as truth by millions of people and affect the lives of millions of people these are the lies which are truly destructive destructive lies often have verifiable and predictable results usually it is piles of dead bodies from time to time its millions of dead bodies the reasons given to create wars and the mass marketing of on say pharmaceuticals are just two examples big ready lies cause more problems than they solve many leaders of nations and leaders of major ready corporations ready ready have not understood this provable fact big eyes cause more problems than they solve big lies affect the self definitions of entire populations  nations usually for the purpose of making money or for the purpose of making war or both if we continue to base our civilization on big lies we should stop whining about those negative end results the piles of dead bodies who are willing to base our civilization on big lies that's what we can look forward to the truth is constant big law is not the form of civilization most of us want it is the form of civilization most of us happy because we do not have complete and accurate information about ourselves about our minds or bodies or spirituality or even our economics because we don't have that information and because our economic and political leaders are hell bent on lying to us we need to form some provisional self definitions based on what we do know what we do know about what humans need and we need to define and create forms civilization we personally and collectively want i have suggested our provisional self definitions might include ready a philosophical idea which may in the future become ready fact this is the idea here moments are essentially connected to each other humans are essentially connected to all living things if we base our lives number six joy joy something we need here is a word like love experienced by hundreds of millions of people in millions of different ways and the word joy remains nebulous we're not able to say exactly what joy means the best we can do is identify what situations and what things cause us to respond with a feeling of joy few people can live for very long without some sense of joy some small joy that two million three hundred thousand people in prisons in the united states of america could teach us all about the need for small joyce some joys are common to all cultures across all periods of human history three thousand years ago the men and women of egyptian and chinese dynasties enjoyed joy is found in many ways joy can be linked to family or career to satisfy that visions or various kinds of accomplishment joy can be caused by beauty with the viewer as an observer or the viewer as a participant in the creation of beauty we value the arts because arts create many forms of beauty and many forms of joy without a sense of joy ready our lives can become robotic with days full of action busy action sweat and toil the making of money the parade of urgencies one demand leading to another to another and to another i suggest joy ready it is essential to our survival so learning about joy why we respond and when we respond and how we make joys repeatable without any loss of intensity those are important facts worth learning and worth talking about number seven creative action i mentioned art is being essential to humankind because art helps us define and create ready repeatable joyous we can enjoy a renoir newt more than once we can enjoy a sedalia sympathy more than once we can enjoy johnny b goode more than once creative action is essential in leaps of intuition ready which result in scientific and technological innovation business education agriculture oh it's all areas of human activity benefit from creative genius creative action whatever the practical or to stick benefits our psyches seem to require creative action to feel satisfied we knit sweaters and socks we create ready arts and crafts we plant flowers we decorate our homes and designer living spaces we enjoy creative action much creative action is directed toward creating beauty the millions of forms of beauty of essential to our joy our practical creative action is directed toward making our lives easier safer more pleasant with new technology and all these creative actions build new and often satisfying self definitions new self definitions and unique creative action we find another for large lies we often lie about where exactly the good new ideas came from large egos and department heads of major universities often require that credit be given to the resident genius the one person or team of persons who invented something those persons who will generate millions of dollars for their parents institution government grants institutional grants corporate grants this occurs everywhere when big money is involved innovative science or technology this is what fuels orthodoxy and dogma in modern science much like the catholic church defied orthodoxy and dog in the time of galileo the church galileo under house arrest so he would not be spreading those dangerous ideas the church also sponsored the brilliant works of michelangelo including the sistine chapel full of beautiful renderings of orthodox beliefs michelangelo is paid three thousand dollars duckett's worth ready about three hundred one thousand dollars in modern us dollars we learn from this great art usually requires a reliable cash supply there are exceptions like remember and of all the who both died dirt broke an innovation creative genius expresses itself in a unique nexus which could occur only at a specific place ready and time with unique outside influences when a person tells themselves the spark of inspiration the core idea which cause the artistic or technical innovation when a person tells themselves that this was due entirely to their own personal genius they are lying to themselves and the lying to everyone else very smart and economically ambitious people often attribute their inspiration to personal genius born from their unique and an oppressive very oppressive strands of d n a as i mentioned in my introduction not all geniuses are so quick and glib with  attributions let's talk about work we all have to go to work we all have to earn money in this big expensive society number eight satisfying work some artists and innovators have satisfying work especially when they're well paid however they are st century civilization in the united states and elsewhere has not solved the problem of creating millions of good jobs for millions of people who need jobs the number of people who need money far exceeds the number of legal ways to acquire money in the us we don't even create crappy jobs and of crappy jobs for the millions of people who need jobs so this crime really surprised us our civilization creates impossibly choppy waters impossible situations demands for money and then locks up anyone who gets caught trying to stay afloat the corporations ready who create ready most of the jobs want to keep a stranglehold on the creation of jobs as an attempt to control the workforce a way to discourage unionize ation after the financial crisis of tw billion eighty five million jobs were lost in two thousand and nine in the us since then about two million five hundred thousand jobs have been created each year and that's not even close to the number of people who need jobs we might ask in which future year will our u s economy create jobs for the two million three hundred thousand people currently held in prisons in the united states what do we expect those people to do tens of millions of people go to jobs every day because we are required to earn tens of thousands of dollars each year to stay afloat in our expensive civilization some of us enjoy our work millions of people do not work is a life draining necessity with many people operating far below ready their innate potential stock in jobs which require only small skill sets jobs which offer no growth or possibility for growth ready or possibility of variety such jobs will never be intellectually physically or emotionally satisfying in this way we waste the energy talent and intellect of tens of millions of people in this way we have waste our primary natural resources the minds and talents of tens of millions of people satisfying work is essential to human health and happiness and boredom kills as effectively as heart disease and cancer so if we are quired to earn tens of thousands of dollars each year to remain active impoverished members of society we should require our society to create millions of worthwhile jobs and satisfying jobs if we are required to spend thousands of hours at work we should require our employers to invent satisfying forms that work satisfying varieties of work the failure of capitalism to meet this basic human need satisfying work will continue to be a primary reason capitalism remains a self destructive force across the planet i've thought about this a man making clay pots you know a studio in a forest and selling his clay pots at a local farmer's market every sunday he's likely to have a higher quality of life than a man in x x pensive suit in an office building who is paid eighty thousand dollars each year to file lawsuits against people whose intellectual property patents are real nuisance to this or that multinational corporation making pots or filing lawsuits these are the choices we get to make in our st century civilization we need to decide here and now if this is the kind of civilization we want for the rest of our lives and for the lives of our children and our grandchildren here is a fact a fact about what is meant doubt the greatest generation the generation of world war two our own parents men and women now deceased or in their ninety's were not so particular about the kind of civilization that passed down to us most people currently in their ninety's ran their lives on blatant economic necessity doing what their government told them to do in world war two and ever after many were educated ready by the g i bill often believing the cultural self definitions of the time the definitions of our nation were good and honest and accurate some of these older people are now shocked to discover how thoroughly they were lied to throughout their entire lifetimes by governments by corporations by educational institutions by insurance companies as well as pharmaceutical companies hospitals and entire health care systems i do not fault any person for doing what needs to be done for making choices of blatant economic necessity i do not fault people for making bad decisions based on immense lies lies so pervasive millions of people believe the lies we are living with the end results of such lies and choices made which is extended for several generations what further losses of free will are we willing to accept are centuries of sociopathic behavior has been perfected honed to a fine art to create business models for modern governments and modern corporations these business models have proven to be self destructive in millions of ways for hundreds of millions of people the short term benefits do not equally balance the long term results as in china where millions of people have been raised out of poverty to live in a harsh totalitarian society or in the us with prosperity for one or two generations leading to our current place millions of people without jobs and without any prospect of getting jobs ignoring all the facts the people in charge the educational institutions from which these people emanate hold to be east business models these old disastrous business models and believe pushing it around other nations and slaving a large group of people is the best way  business this is street gang behavior it's street gang behavior on a global scale it is no more civilized and crips and bloods killing each other over some small piece of geography truthfully if we are simply counting dead bodies nations and corporations are far more efficient at killing people than street gangs will ever be the objectives are the same be the winner be the biggest thug in the neighborhood force your will on other people and tell those people do what you want them to do if they continue to get in the way kill them our traditional gang and try mentality our traditional gang and try soft definitions do not work with a population of seven billion eight hundred million people our leaders admired the old business models because it passed centuries bowling rape and plunder created some wonderful civilizations training themselves to be control freaks in charge of every fine detail our leaders ready believe they are creating the future of humanity they are the geniuses to save us all they are willing and able to manipulate and control ready the lives of hundreds of millions of people every single day our leaders the government and our leaders of corporations enjoy being control freaks with global ambitions sitting quietly with a glass of canadian crowd  a rational person might look at the situation and say seven point eight is far too many people to control with submarines police forces or libraries full of l x even with one hundred million cops and facial recognition software cameras on every street corner and laws to make every citizen a criminal for everything they may or may not do even with all this many citizens will not be in slaved the only way for a government or corporation to bring order and control to such a large population is to provide good ideas not more laws not more cops and a government or corporation able to provide hundreds of millions of people with useful viable effective practical ideas ideas which can become an essential part of hundreds of millions of lives now that government or that corporation will be more successful ready than all the others truthfully most of the seven billion eight hundred million citizens ready of our planet do not need to be controlled or governed or spied on every moment of their lives order and control often becomes a magical unicorn imagined by over educated control freaks who are certain may know what is best for all the rest of us millions of people are able to govern themselves for all practical purposes for most of their lives they create jobs they work those jobs they make babies and raise families they pass on their d n a and their best ideas to the next generation hundreds of millions of people get along just fine with each other with no need for presidents or prime ministers or supreme leaders ready or glorious supreme leaders far from being useful our governments often get in the way of honest citizens going about their lives on a citizens with rational and reasonable expectations their ways of life and their world views are often far closer to tangible reality than the freakish grotesque belaying agendas of national governments and international multinational corporations we might try an interesting experiment let's have all the leaders of all major nations and all the c f o zz and all the c e o of those involved major corporations of the world go on vacation go on vacation for the rest of their lives with no replacements put in their chairs most of our leaders of government and our leaders of corporations would not be missed most of the people on our planet would not even know those very important very powerful leaders had gone missing decisions would continue to be made commerce would continue babies would continue to be born and be fed and be raised as a jew said if you want to be a great leader you must stop trying to control let go fix plans and concepts and the number twelve courage it takes courage to form new self definitions and sustain oneself definitions the wide humanist soft definitions i promoting would not look so good on a resume if one was applying for work with the us military or on land security or any branch of law enforcement most major corporations in their mission statements which say they are humanists corporate propaganda from monsanto eighteen t google amazon apple and others all declare they are working tirelessly for the good of humanity their mission statements declare their working for the good of humanity each person can decide for themselves if the behavior of major multinational corporations lives up to the propaganda or the behavior of any government lives up to that government's propaganda my particular ready humanist self definitions are not the same humanist ideas held by our major ready educational institutions educational propaganda is very similar to corporate the agenda of both in most places is to make money as much money as quickly as possible here i will mention a poet the poet william stafford he was a conscientious objector during world war two in the us world war two was the most popular war humans ever created almost everyone was for it kill the japs kill the krauts bill told me he lost several friends who could not stomach bill's pacifist beliefs bill told me he felt more if you choose to go down the path of unpopular self definitions you can expect to lose friends and be considered unrealistic and cowardly and generally a stupid person as measured by the beliefs of popular self definitions even now some people will look at me and say look here charles it is not possible for any individual to honestly care about the other seven billion seven hundred and ninety nine million nine hundred and ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine residents of planet earth our imaginations never extend that far tribes have always fought for supremacy and piles of dead bodies are inevitable i would propose our imaginations can easily have compass eight billion people or more currently in newport news virginia the aircraft carrier u s s john f kennedy is being built at a cost of thirteen billion dollars if we can imagine that price tag we can imagine thirteen billion dollars individual people let us visualize one billion dollars if we wanted to store one billion dollars at one hundred dollars bills it would occupy six hundred and eighty nine thousand and ninety two dollars cubic inches or three hundred and ninety eight eight cubic feet a small box used by moving companies holds about one five cubic feet so for a one billion dollars in one hundred dollars bills you would need about two hundred and sixty six dollars small moving boxes all packed very tightly now think of each dollar each dollar within those one hundred dollars bills as an individual human being and multiply by eight or in terms of weight one million dollars of one hundred dollars bills weighs exactly ten kilograms about billion dollars is ten tons of money compare the weight of money to the weight of any average human being we might also consider the closing charge given just after the closing prayer used in all masonic lodges for the last three hundred years every human being has a claim upon your kind offices do good on to all and finally my brother in be they all of one mind live in peace and may the god of love and peace to like to dwell with you and bless you if we truly believe piles of dead bodies are inevitable if we truly believe we need nuclear submarines and very expensive aircraft we will continue to create those