''What is to be done?"

[Peter Kropotkin]

One of the questions, one of many, is
this question of ''What is to be done?"

now the answer lies in how one think or believes the state or society
is currently set up...... for decades, belief in the destruction of
the state and society was considered to be an honest answer to
the question, ''What is to be done?"
I was an anarchist for over a decade, and I made use of this idea
that the best way to bring about ''utopia'' was by destroying
the state and society.... and many today consider this the best
idea about ''what is to be done?" but there are many other possibilities....
we can use moderation to bring about change... but then the
question appears... change from what to what? What needs to change?
Why do we even need change? Change for change sake or do we actually
have to have a reason to change?

it is not an idle question, but a question that lays at the very foundation
of our state and society..... we need change, that much most people can
agree on, the real question becomes what change, how much do we change
and what is the goal of change?

Are people happy? If I were to bet on that, I would say that most
people are unhappy.... but that question hinges on happiness being
the point of existence.... if happiness is not the point, then what
should the goal of existence be? and what changes must we make
to achieve those goals?

are we supposed to be being that seek out salvation or beings that
seek out the trinkets of existence, or are we beings that are engaged
or should be engaged with becoming ''who we are?'' As Nietzsche himself
suggested...what if the goal is not a stopping point, but a path to
something else....Human beings are not fixed, set entities.....
we are coming from somewhere and we are going somewhere....
the question becomes, from where to where?

the modern goal of existence is to gain the trinkets of existence,
wealth, power, material possessions, fame and/or titles......
but do we think so lowly of life that those pathetic goals are
actually, worth our efforts? to achieve those goals requires something
outside of us, in chasing wealth for example, it is wealth, money
we are seeking... something outside of us..... and how does
something outside of us, become something worth seeking?

As human beings, we have biological and psychological needs,
we need food, water, shelter, health care, education, to name
a few biological needs... and we need the psychological needs
to be met... of love, of esteem, of safety/security, of the need
of belonging... needs both biological and psychological
inside of us.... not outside of us....we seek out needs that we
have inside of us...... but the pursuit of our modern world are needs?
outside of us.... the need for salvation requires something outside of us,
and therein lies out path to failure... to pursue what is outside of us....
instead of pursuing that which is inside of us...... to seek out
our possibilities of being is inside of us.... to become who we are,
is inside of us, to become great is something driving us, inside of us,
not outside of us.....

fulfilment comes from meeting our inside needs, not our outside needs....
and that is why the seeking of wealth or fame or titles fail to fulfill us...

"So, what is to be done?"

not to chase outside needs, the false needs of the state and society...
but to seek out what is inside of us..... to fulfill our own personal
needs......of becoming who we are, and of fulfilling our own
possibilities.... that of being great in some field or path...of
our own choosing....

and the thing is, that we can do this and still fulfill our
obligations of being human, of the state and society....
we can seek out our own needs and still be a good citizen
or be a good father or be a good worker....
seeking the one does not prevent us from any other
search.....

today one of the great questions is this question of a work-life
balance.... to balance out work and balance out our lives....
businesses try to destroy this work-life balance by its
outrageous demands that we engage in work 24/7....and
in doing so, we destroy ourselves.... job burnout and
depression and a general unhappiness comes from this
working to many hours..... today at my age, any work is
too much work... for I too have burnout...
I work fulltime and I just can't take it anymore...
but financially I can't quit....I have roughly a year and a half
of working before I can retire..... the question is, can I make it?
"What is to be done?"
I have hit on the idea of working as few hours as possible....
just enough to pay the bills and save up some more money.....
work of course, wants me 24/7... but I just can't do that anymore.....
at this point in time, my needs come before work or the state or
the society...... but in my thought process comes a goal that
I can achieve and the means of achieving that goal..... now your
goals or possibilities are different from me..... and your goals
and means of achieving those goals are different than mine.....

''what is to be done'' is different for you as it is for me.....
and today, today burning down the state and the society,
as my 30 year old self wanted, is not only not necessary, but
it prevents me from achieving my own personal goal, of retirement
and it destroys the means to achieve my goal...

as we age and our environment changes, our goals and the means
to achieve those goals changes..... what was feasible and plausible
at age 30, makes no sense today....

So, ''What is to be done?"... well, frankly that depends on both
the goal chosen and the method, means of achieving that goal....

Kropotkin

[Walker]

One of the questions, one of many, is
this question of ''What is to be done?"

Kropotkin

Answer: Only what is necessary, which becomes less.

[nallycarry]

Make it shorter!