The Default Setting Is Love

ISBN: 1505229073

Author: Kerr, Thomas Dexter

Condition: New

The culture of freedom, democracy and human rights iscreating an advanced civilization, more intelligent, moral andbeautiful. This is beyond the vision of those who believe thedefault setting is hate because humans are separate by natureand evolved to compete against one another.But we arent and we didnt.It's an exciting and hopeful time to be alive.Peace and prosperity are increasing as ever more peopleare allowed, enabled and inspiredto make more decisions in their lives.People thinking more is good, right and beautiful because ourthoughts and feelings evolved to mix together in the livingthinking system that is all minds connected, talents notconcentrated but dispersed, every person incompetent on theirown, each and every one needed to add variety to the whole,creating a category leap in intelligence, grace and powerfar beyond what could evolve to exist in any one beast,completely dependent on everyone getting along,intelligence and morality joined in a common endeavor.The most important and potent attributeof human intelligence is notthat some are all encompassing geniusesbut that none are.The magic at the heart of powercomes disguised as innocencecomposed of pieces in a pattern always arranged the sameimpractical musicians, nonathletic priests, groveling politicianshelp bring disparate folks togethermechanics fix stoves, clumsy scientists inventathletes run and hunt, shoppers gather, some cookothers memorize, memorialize the pastby themself each seems so small, incompetenthaving over eons given up ability to think completelyor prosper all alone, developing insteadcritical extremes of differencewidespread idiosyncrasy, partiality of visiona very steep price, necessary to be essentialto the thinking whole,providing wide variety, depth of thoughtand wild sparks of creativity.Our collective intelligence developed and grew over eonsas our primary tool and weapon.Living in small groups everyone was knownevery voice was heard, all minds took partin the struggle for survival.With failure a constant shadowthe result at every step was the most efficient,creative and intelligent combinationbound together as it had to beby numberless varieties of lovein a package of glorious shining beauty.The challenge of our era is finding thousands of waysin complicated large scale modern lifeof unleashing human intelligence and nurturingour heritage with a clear-eyed recognition of it.Freedom works, intelligence is beautifulbecause the default setting is love.Together our destiny is to wonder and speculate, create andexplore, seek truth and solve the riddles of the universe.We all have a responsibility to engage with the wonder andjoy of life. Connections are everywhere, disconnection isillusion, ever greater mixing lending context, depth andmeaning to the love enabling the human informationsystem to dominate existence with warmth and beauty.So rise above superiority to live equal with all, awaken tosee the light in every pair of eyes, each one a uniqueshining facet of the most intelligent entity ever to arise.A story told in many piecesPoems with a Preface