Opposites

Opposites
If something is terrible then someone will invent something better
The perception of weakness creates a need for strength
the lack of privacy creates a need for anonymity
the hole needs to be filled

People who create holes for a living
they don't like people who go around filling them in
they have created this problem because of their needs
they want to profit from, enjoy or utilise these holes

Yet people who fill holes
they may do it just to show they can
or as a public service for those who find those holes
terrible, inconvenient, dangerous etc

Freedom is meaningless, nobody cares
until there is a problem and someone realises
they are caught in slavery, and they surmise
the possibility of non-slavery and call it freedom

Wealth is similarly pointless and irrelevant to life
until there is scarcity, poverty, hunger, sickness
and those people suffering notice that there are others
they have wealth or health so we are attracted to them

Slowly one might realise that one has taken things for granted
or accepted things that are causing problems
we are young, we haven't picked up on these issues
We might remember the past times where wars and revolution ensued!

Yet do we have the stomach for this - or even know how
can we conduct a bloodless revolution, or is that contradictory
could a revolution even be needed if no blood was being spilled
Which side is to blame, the incumbent or revolutionary?

Neither side - they both merely have been taking a strategy
a way of life, and while that way of life is possible
they protect their own advantages
perhaps the haves believe the have-nots chose this for themselves

"They could have merely followed the strategy i followed"
"It isn't exclusive, although we have to make it hard or everyone
would be wealthy and how would it matter to be wealthy
if everyone was - it would be meaningless ..."

Can you create one without being party to creating the opposite?
If you accumulate wealth are you not reducing the supply
and making everyone else have to fight harder for a share?
So you create wealth for self and you create scarcity - for other!

If we meditate we might diffuse some clinging to one side
or the other - if we see them as together
When we meditate we might lose a connection to selfish motives
simply because self is dependent on others - its meaningless