The Myth of Might and Mighty

(Historical and Contemporary Investments)


When we think about a myth, we don’t necessarily think about making believe because we really want to think that believing and believing in the story, and believing mostly in all the power and benefits of the courageous outcomes of the myth.  So we are most often heavily invested in thinking that we can be mentally, physically and socially strong and triumphant, like Mighty Mouse.  The only other enhancement or elevator making of strength that is more effective than believing is drugging and feeling terrific and mightily in control and in demand.  So, whatever it takes to charge you up, either a story with a hell of a wallop or a beer with a hell of a charge, or both, just go for it and feel as strong as strong can be, like Mighty Mouse.


The ways that we have historically empowered ourselves is with crazy thinking and chemical additives which end up making us not safe, but mostly dead on arrival.  The out of the box alternatives to Mighty Mouse attitudes would be sound and sober thinking and practicing, which of course would mean no more Mighty Mouse and no longer believing that one could fly by might alone, or by will alone, or by getting high too, all to create illusions of might. 


A new way of safe and sound thinking that is really out of the box of conformity of having magical powers would be to expect ourselves to be collectively sound, think and be grounded and realistic, and mostly to come to expect what is factual to have the greater value and the new and different priority of investment.  So bravery would be out and practicality would be the new politics and policies. 

As in the past, it is true today that socially and politically we need to examine our ways of thinking about our own thinking and our own investments.  In a mad attempt to Globalize and create a World Village we have crashed or clashed head with the old thinking of believing each to their own wanting to be The Mighty Mouse.  Most often politics are based on or contrived out of old-time myths and ways of practicing organized living.   We have been thinking that we have had a crash of economics and financial ways of management and doing business and conducting trade.  I think that these money and debt payment problems are really more of a symptom of old thinking, and that the old thinking is the real problem and Mighty Mouse needs to be called out.


Another example of old thinking is that of the Healthcare Revolution or the Sickness-care Program preservations and funding.  All of which trades out undeveloped sound thinking and practicing for the old Miracle of Magnificence and just more Mighty Mouse thinking and mood elevations, which are the real problem and the real downfall.  We simply cannot go on trying to have our cake and eat it too.  No matter how much foolish thinking we consume we will just plain parish.  Thinking that we can war against one another, war against our own bodies, war against even ourselves is just plain dumb and foolish. 


In America, the United States, we are very heavily developed industrially, technologically, economically and yes Mighty Mousely.  So just how advanced are we and what kinds and ways of innovations are we using that really didn’t already fail to work by other empires and other great minds?  What stories do we keep telling ourselves and what are we teaching our kids in school and at home?  Are we pragmatics, or are we practically polluting our own minds and our airways, and thereby our waterways and our climate?  

I don’t have wings or a magic cape like Mighty Mouse, for those are only myths and cartoon characters, and neither do you.  I am not really a flying drone being programmed by some civil-servant in Kansas somewhere or by some outer space or out of mind other being, and neither are you.  I do want peaceful living to be achieved and atomic warfare to be banned for all and without exception, and I am inviting you, all of you.  I do want realistic abundance for everyone through labor and cooperation.  I do want, and think that all can be achieved in healthy bodies and sane, sober and safe minds and for and by competent minded people for all, and for us and by us.


-Dr. Gil Eriksen

Editor-In-Chief

 

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Knowing and Accepting Our Limits

(The Foundations of Sound Judgment)


Limits are our reality whether we accept the limits or not; in fact much or how we have trained ourselves to think is in defiance of limits and rejections of the facts of limits.  Our judgment base is unrealistic and our outcomes will more than likely be fiascos. So retraining and reorienting ourselves to the ideas, facts and practice of limits is a whole new and different mindset and the real path to success.  Learning to accept limits often can be acquired by means of experimenting and learning from the results of what can and cannot be willed and what is within our own means.  However, rationalizing ourselves to have super powers, unusual capacities, unforeseeable and unknown talents will not and actually cannot, override or persuade to alter or modify limits to suit our wishes or demands.  Examples of limits are the limits of our bodies, the limits of our own minds, the limits of our roles and the confines of place in our communities, and most of all the limits of reality and reality on real terms.  In simple terms, what is unmovable or unchangeable will not bend to our ideas of unlimited power by us.

 

What is common to most people is that they would like to think, or wish to think, that just because they think what they think, that can and does supersede the confinement of our individual and limited selves.  If you think about the habits of our usual thinking, one can see and forever run across the ideas of perfection and of our own infallibility, or being so powerful.  For perfection is the fantasy of us, and the idealized version of us as the hero that can fly and bounce bullets off or our chest, like in the comics.  Sound silly and stupid, well yes, but that is the miracle and the ways of fantasy, and so we think should make sense and usurp the limits of limitations, and not to be seen as just stupid.  Accepting that we have this heroic and comic persona and personal ways of thinking is what needs to be recognized and accepted by us, and is all about us, and is key to setting oneself free from the false restrictions of that promise-pack of self-adoration.  Once oriented to sanity we need to commit to then stopping our plunges into old thinking and patterns of defiance and keep us from going off the cliffs of reality to our own death. 


In all of us we have these little, powerful and pervasive pacts with us in our own minds.  These pacts are very much like do or die, or die trying to prove or might and our will, or endlessly trying to make real that which will never be real.  Yah, that is what heroes are made of and how we want to be respected and memorialized. Historically  when we convince ourselves that the stakes are ultimately high or even catch a glimpse that the rewards cannot be absolutely just grabbed away, we get even more worked up and hold tighter to the fantasy of us and our noble purpose for living and dying.

 

We deny that we are embodied and see and call ourselves as spirits that are out of bodies.  We deny that we are flesh and blood and convince ourselves that we are made of truth serum that is made of light rays.  We deny that others have their own existence and containments within their own ideas, and we try to robotize them to us, like mental control is real.  We deny morality and see dying as a mishap or an elevator ride to heaven and victory.  We deny our limits, all limits, and think that absolute right is real and go on believing endlessly and courageously as a way of thinking and living, which most often ends in our being absolutely dead.

 

Accepting that we are misinformed, superstitious, ignorant, fable laden and imagined too big for our own selves is a relief from having to do battle.  We then can open a door to exploration and a life of learning instead of proving and being frightfully dumb.  Accepting and learning to be sane, sober and safe does mean surrender, but means recognition of what is real, how things and people are contained and what can be learned and enjoyed when you and I put down the drag-costumes of the warriors. 


-Dr. Gil Eriksen

Editor-In-Chief