Index 
Acceptance Morality
Shame: Shame on others is necessary to validate one’s own sin. For example, shaming welfare recipients validate one’s sinful desire for more material riches. To paraphrase: “One must sacrifice for family, country, religion, or other such cause, while enjoying the manipulative power of say a car or computer. If one is not shamed for accepting food and shelter for “doing nothing” then they might not want to “do anything, and that would question my very “sacrifice” and accumulated material “tools” I use for my family and national “good”. If one lives happily with hard work, why am I working so hard? Answer: because it is good for me and my community. So if you don’t work hard it’s “bad” for me (you too) and my community. Shame on you” ISTMRN that in our era of great food capacity and building shelter capacity, we can “afford” many “shameful” lazy people not willing to work. In fact, our surplus food and housing is the problem, so let’s give it away as we do now with so many welfare programs. But let’s take away shame and encourage contemplative life as we age rather than accumulating wealth. Let kids play in almost empty stadia rather watch other in filled stadia. Let’s fill nearly empty parks except for “organized games”. Let some who choose live in for and comfort without receiving the shame of receiving food and shelter from somebody else, as long as the surplus supports it. For this to occur, I think also requires on the part of recipients of the surplus an acceptance of awareness of life itself as the highest good. No higher good can be gained by surplus material or intellectual feats, except to live another second, minute, day, eternity of human awareness in relative (i.e. tolerable) comfort; because that’s all there is: experience. I see as likely neither owners of surplus abandoning shame as a tool of coercion nor recipients giving up demand for ever more of the surplus beyond food and shelter needs, like cars and computers. So what does this mean for me? Little, except I look forward to jail or freedom with equal relish, as long as I have a meal to eat, warm place to sleep, a book to read, and people to talk to. |