T28 - Destiny - C 8

As Gableplunk says, 'Here Gableplunk could seek these visions, and in failing to realize them, he wouldn't fail, for he'd find them momentarily in the seeking.' He, like most of us, seeks his own visions, nurtures his own ambitions and examines and modifies his own motivations. In this process he realizes, probably unknowingly, his destiny and the destiny of mankind. Whatever path we all seem to be on, our paths of individuality which seemingly make us distinct from all others, beneath our illusions of ourselves, we adhere to what is common to all of us: our human natures. This is a pool of characteristics in which we all share, some of us exhibiting one or five or twelve or more of those characteristics at any one time and others of us exhibiting a different dozen out of the hundreds or thousands in the pool. We might call the pool human nature or the unconscious or as the Psychologist Jung labeled it, the pool of archetypes from which springs our expressed or manifested characteristics, our unconscious desires and our myths from which cultures and even civilizations evolve.

Individuality is the nickels and dimes of our civilizations' currencies and destiny is the dollar, the power behind the people. Of course there's a lot of disagreement about which path our destinies ought to take. This is the discourse of an advanced society. When there is no discourse, the path of destiny becomes fixed. I suppose a fixed destiny offers security and a mutable path offers adventure and opportunity. People can choose. As a species our destiny unfolds slowly, however with increasing pace lately, as humankind evolves to..... what? as Gableplunk asks. Good question. It is the work of Futurists to examine this question and try to give us choices and guidelines. However, by nature Futurists are almost always wrong because they can only examine limited numbers of all possible pathways according to each of their individualities. Since there are more paths into the future than there are people on the face of the earth, this must always be so. So, the future remains unpredictable as does the stock market, no matter what advanced forms of mathematics are brought to bear on it study.

This is the big picture and we all fit in somewhere, somehow, in contributing to the destiny of our species. Even if we only offer our humble opinions about life and are not movers and shakers, these tiny influences are sometimes felt all the way across the world and in the future the solar system and then the galaxy. I suspect that once humans (again) become a space faring species that we will create other little Earths here and there, each of which will manifest its own destiny. Sometime in the future we will come to another confrontation with ourselves.