Together and apart we, the human race, must now choose, and sometimes blaze, ways and paths of evolving
sapiently – that is to say wisely. We must do this because we have no sane alternative to giving proper attention
to the unchangeable data of our circumstances and the apparently ineluctable realities of our fellow creatures.
My thesis is that we can only become aware of what is actually vitally true about our circumstances, i.e. what’s
happening?, if each of us gains some perspective on his or her own particular “ism”, or existential belief, or nexus
of shared “ismic” thoughts.
We can gain such a perspective if we know at all times an accurate answer to the question “Who’s doing what of
urgency or importance to whom?” And my particular strategy for answering exactly that question has evolved
from utter confusion and massive anxiety along a path that (a) uses language much more accurately and
empathically than is “normal”, and (b) gives and takes the time to inquire into those fields of knowing that my
interlocutors and I appear to have “half-forgotten”.
If our skills in communicating, i.e. listening and articulating, can grow in accuracy, energy and time become
available to conciliate formerly impossible gaps between our personal interests and the needs of a social whole
of whose existence, and risks of extinction, we may be only vaguely aware.
Question: In the diagram below, what label would you put in the box marked “????” and what words would you
use to describe the domains of the large left and right question marks ?
sapiently – that is to say wisely. We must do this because we have no sane alternative to giving proper attention
to the unchangeable data of our circumstances and the apparently ineluctable realities of our fellow creatures.
My thesis is that we can only become aware of what is actually vitally true about our circumstances, i.e. what’s
happening?, if each of us gains some perspective on his or her own particular “ism”, or existential belief, or nexus
of shared “ismic” thoughts.
We can gain such a perspective if we know at all times an accurate answer to the question “Who’s doing what of
urgency or importance to whom?” And my particular strategy for answering exactly that question has evolved
from utter confusion and massive anxiety along a path that (a) uses language much more accurately and
empathically than is “normal”, and (b) gives and takes the time to inquire into those fields of knowing that my
interlocutors and I appear to have “half-forgotten”.
If our skills in communicating, i.e. listening and articulating, can grow in accuracy, energy and time become
available to conciliate formerly impossible gaps between our personal interests and the needs of a social whole
of whose existence, and risks of extinction, we may be only vaguely aware.
Question: In the diagram below, what label would you put in the box marked “????” and what words would you
use to describe the domains of the large left and right question marks ?
| Politics: Finding the Balancing Factor in Verbal Truth |
| by Angus Cunningham President, Authentix Coaches angusc@authentixcoaches.com |
What I hope to convey by the diagram above is that, in the pantheon of life wisdoms, some conscious value is
needed to balance the instinctual-emotional value of loyalty to family, community, income-earning organization,
political entity, or ideology. We usually learn, in the ordinary courses of our own particular experiences of
socialization, to adhere in some degree of loyalty to one or more of these entities or ideations and the values
our fellows in them live. We learn the value of loyalty from recognizing that, in both history and the expectations
of which we are aware in our social lives, heroes are loyal. As we mature we become aware that unbounded
loyalty to less than the whole of which we are aware leads to some hypocrisy becoming manifest in our fellows,
and in due course, in ourselves. This leads, in turn, to an increasingly desperate alternation of workaholism and
cynicism and cynicism’s many inglorious variants. In our attempts to escape the holds of these “isms” upon our
implicit self-image is there any alternative to each of us discovering a unique purpose or series of purposes for
his or her individual life?
Chinghiz and I believe that discovery of the purpose, or sequence of purposes, that will uniquely fill whatever
void of meaning we each individually have frees us from whatever compulsive ethnic, cultural, sub-cultural, tribal,
or familial behaviours or “isms” are vexingly holding us. Perhaps you agree, and if you do you will have interest
to know that Chinghiz and I believe that discovery of our unique purposes has required of us both a
counterbalance to the value of loyalty. What is that counterbalance?
In our lives, application of the Principle of Agency Clarity is providing the counterbalance by which we discern a
deeper truth binding us to coherence with a larger whole than the sub-cultures and cultures with which we have
become familiar. The Principle of Agency Clarity enlightens my natural loyalty through both a rational and a
reasonable process that enables me to discover insights to which I would otherwise be blind.
What is your counterbalance? Well, that is now for you to determine. You can get some further insight into the
issue of counterbalances for loyalties you have to either people or ideas that are distracting you from your inner
compass of truth by exploring the pages on Authentix Coaching and Coaching Mediation.
needed to balance the instinctual-emotional value of loyalty to family, community, income-earning organization,
political entity, or ideology. We usually learn, in the ordinary courses of our own particular experiences of
socialization, to adhere in some degree of loyalty to one or more of these entities or ideations and the values
our fellows in them live. We learn the value of loyalty from recognizing that, in both history and the expectations
of which we are aware in our social lives, heroes are loyal. As we mature we become aware that unbounded
loyalty to less than the whole of which we are aware leads to some hypocrisy becoming manifest in our fellows,
and in due course, in ourselves. This leads, in turn, to an increasingly desperate alternation of workaholism and
cynicism and cynicism’s many inglorious variants. In our attempts to escape the holds of these “isms” upon our
implicit self-image is there any alternative to each of us discovering a unique purpose or series of purposes for
his or her individual life?
Chinghiz and I believe that discovery of the purpose, or sequence of purposes, that will uniquely fill whatever
void of meaning we each individually have frees us from whatever compulsive ethnic, cultural, sub-cultural, tribal,
or familial behaviours or “isms” are vexingly holding us. Perhaps you agree, and if you do you will have interest
to know that Chinghiz and I believe that discovery of our unique purposes has required of us both a
counterbalance to the value of loyalty. What is that counterbalance?
In our lives, application of the Principle of Agency Clarity is providing the counterbalance by which we discern a
deeper truth binding us to coherence with a larger whole than the sub-cultures and cultures with which we have
become familiar. The Principle of Agency Clarity enlightens my natural loyalty through both a rational and a
reasonable process that enables me to discover insights to which I would otherwise be blind.
What is your counterbalance? Well, that is now for you to determine. You can get some further insight into the
issue of counterbalances for loyalties you have to either people or ideas that are distracting you from your inner
compass of truth by exploring the pages on Authentix Coaching and Coaching Mediation.