The Law Of Reverse Effect

How are you doing with your new non-doing-approach to changing the world?

You are in literally and figuratively un-doing, un-committing all the ills and wrongs that were done, by not doing anything about it. Doesn't it feel great?

Personally, I can't think of a better solution. When I do, you'll read it here first.

Well it's a start. Nothing like starting something by not having to do anything.

There are however, Laws of the Universe, that have nothing to do with Murphy's Laws of All Likelihood.
And I know I have mentioned in a prior post there are four...but, add this Law and make it 5.

The Law I neglected to mention is the Law of Reverse Effect.

It's kind of like when you, blow on your hands to warm them, and blow on your soup to cool it down.

Although we haven't changed temperature, the conditions around us have changed, but our actions are the same.

Not just because we are unable to physically adapt, but because it's comforting to feel like something-is-being-done to remedy the problem we're experiencing.

Suppressing this natural urge of doing, and we paradoxically, could just achieve what otherwise cannot be done. Change our environment, and by change I mean let it heal and renew.

But not doing, I mean ...if every one of our decisions, actions, habits etc..are detrimental to the organic nature of society and the planet, then don't do them. Undo them by no doing. I love this concept, because it SO suits my already existing approach to life!

However, we are teetering on a tight rope because in yesterday's post, it suddenly occurred to me that memory really would pop up out of know where. Though for us to have current existing political situations brewing and bubbling away in the pressure cooker, or already on fire - that's evidence we have too short a memory and do not either know our history, remember our history, or cared enough about the significance knowing and remembering our human history carries....or have been desensitized or disassociated from that which brought us thus far backwards.

The point, before I lose it to Monday's exhaustion, is what would happen if we tried to not use as much gas, oil, water, electricity, food, everything energy as we previously have done, and known...if we simply stopped using oil and gasoline (as if <-- which I believe is Arabic for HAHA)

The result would be: sharp memory.

And any attempts to denounce them....in doing-without-them....would almost certainly strengthen their hold.

It vindicates the whole existence of such need and greed. Astonishing isn't it!?

The only similar model of this human reaction : attitudes and behaviour can be found with the subject of religion.

By denouncing one religion and going off to start another.....it vindicated, it somehow strengthens the other...the other can now say it was one of the originals....it's been around longer....and on it goes....and people are killed for impermanent intangible concepts - abstractions - unproveable...unwinable arguments.

So the act of denouncing anything galvanizes the reverse law effect.

The effort of trying to move away from something strengthens the existence / focus of it.

The effort...isn't doing...doing is something that shouldn't be effort, but natural.

Somehow natural was drilled from the earth, to fuel unnatural machines that we are unnaturally told we can't live without.

At the very least, it validates and enlarges the issue like putting a magnifying glass over it.

Whereas if we really knew how to genuinely leave something alone, it would be like removing the imaginary magnify glass, and we really would not be able to even find the issue, and we'd just brush it off our sleeve.

So....The question remains: How to step over this set trap of predictable human reactionary behaviour.....


Good question....stay tuned...

(Let's hope I stumble upon a viable answer before tomorrow!)