John F. Kennedy - Nelson Mandela ∆ FAME ∞ GREATness ∆

 ∆ SIMPLICITY ∆

     Did a man get great because of himself,  despite himself? 

       Did a man get famous by himself?  

Did one become great at any time at all during one's life? 

By the handling of certain key events in his time? 

By the deflection or affection of events which in a manner of speaking,  moved Man's direction onto a different path? 

Or did a man, no different from any other men, get great because of his dying by another mad?  man's bullet via a successfully executed assassination? 

Or did a man due to his misfortune of being the victim of another's malevolence, malfeasance, malcontent receive greatness & acclaim because of his forbearance, persevering determination & complete absence of our natural human instinct of retaliatory vengefulness? 

Nelson Mandela by not actuating, engaging or launching into violent tooth & nail vengeful punitive retributory pay-back to his tormentors - in-actively conveyed GREATNess on himself!

 (George W. Bush's WAR on TERROR that evoked the ridicule, admonishment, even contempt that shadowed an otherwise potentially honorable presidency)

And even though GREATness is a  cherished, proud legacy to one's family, no one wishes for nor need this, not especially if accompanied by suffering,  loss, anguish, premature bereavement!

Is GREATness, FAME necessary at all as motivation in one's life?

How was one man who acted in a certain way accorded GREATness, whilst another for acts similar, vilified with infamy?

Though tons of literature, publications & opinions, have been generated  discouraging us from living our life with the sole aim to achieve GREATness; in fact exhorting everyone to lay back, smell all the roses, stop & laze through life; there is an equally just as massively huge amount of publications, spoken & unspoken, out there pushing us towards the opposite - achieve GREATness be FAMOUS !

«««President John F. Kennedy »»» 50 + years since,

& the just departed, unbending, indigenous son of an exotic, mysterious, sadly aggrieved, much bullied AFRICAN Continent 

««« Nelson Mandela »»»

both though acclaimed FAMOUS & GREAT, 

would as surely as there are XXXX,000,000,000,000 humans out there,  draw as many as XXXX,000,000,001 differing opinions concerning their FAME & GREATness.  

As creatures of a flawed system, we are encouraged to wake at the crack of dawn to get the worm!  

The worm -  knowing what's good for him, should wake after the crack of dawn?

As failed creatures we are exhorted to chase down every buck again inculcated with another preferred trait.

[What about chasing down the doe?  how else thenwould the deer species flourish if only bucks are chased down - fucked ]:)

Never passing a day with no sounds of pecuniary noises rattling the cash register - one more need in our everyday life!

The message is strident 

'earn' your keep.

More so in nations seemingly deprived, seemingly having less in whatever they should be having more of! 

Shit..who or what tells anyone what is the required, sanctioned, standard of attainment one is expected to follow? What if one, a fool, is so privileged as to be have all one's known, unknown, exotic & otherwise, needs fully supplied. One not even needing to breathe under one's own steam?

Would then that one be considered a less likely candidate for greatNESS? 

Since he won't have to wake at the crack of dawn to get the wake-later-than-crack-of-dawn worm? 

Nor  need he chase down the buck - would he then be disregarded as an industrious person? Unlikely to achieve greatNESS?

In the (?)holy  books it is mentioned 'one who does not work will not eat'.

What about one who does not crave to eat? Does that make one free also to not choose work since one don't crave  to eat?

«» Does a human have to justify his existence by bringing in the bacon? 

«» Does our existence and happiness or joy in plain "just living" have to be tied to other's expectations of achievements? 

«» Does our achievements have to be measured & assessed by our fellow peers' understanding of objectives which could be doubtfully unquantifiable because of differences in value systems?  

«» How about our own judgment, our own assessment of our own level of achievements, our own inclinations, our own wanting to go, or arrive at any peak, of our own choosing?

«» Does anyone have to justify his desired goals to his own conscience, to the expectations of his family, his nation, his people? 

«» What ideals of a hard working productive pull-his-weight-useful individual should one model oneself after?

«» In this life were we made by the One for this? 

«» Who was authorized to implant, implement this idea linking work & achievements & greatness & industriousness & conecting all that BS, glamorizing all that sweat, blood & wasted exhilarations of extended inertia to a Fulfilling Purposeful Life? 

«» Who said at all about Life having to have any Purpose or need to be fulfilling?

† Does it not sit well if we only eat when we feel hungry?

† And work cos we find joy in the effort? 

† Does it not sit well if we work only to be happy in the end products of what we are working at, and not as a means to a end - food? 

† Does it not sit well if we ecstasies & thrill at every gorgeous awesome cloud formation, at the glorious awesome sunsets and awesome glorious sunrises & do no other form of labor otherwise than to sing glorious JOY to Him at every awesome glorious rendifications He executes in the atmospheric tapestry daily? 

† Would that hurt anyone? Or would we break any law, if we only live to daily revel in the awesome splendors He regularly performs with His brushes in the stratospheres, ever more glorious in awesomeness?

† Does it not sit well if we brain-hibernatingly follow the lazily meandering line of pathologically industrious ants as they lug load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load of never ever enough supplies into their warehouses? And as we in motionless stillness get worked up & excited, without distabilizing our peaceful stupor, from our admiring of these insects' incessant hoarding ways, would THAT detract from our human destiny, or reduce our stature or reduce our dignity as a human in anyway? 

† If we did away with needing to work, would we then not be 'earning' our keep, to 'justify' our being given life, or be 'entitled' to our daily bread? And to achieve man's perception of 'GREATness' & 'FAME'?

† Or would all these exhortations about being gainfully engaged while alive bring one higher, nearer to anywhere? To a more glamorous, more awesome place?

† Would by not making use of our physical or mental abilities to 'work' be considered living a useless wasteful life? 

And does that (wasted) time given to every individual without pre-stated purpose or intent; benevolently by the GIVER,  have to be gainfully employed & put to productive purpose ? 

Is the glorified, noble, admired efforts of ours toward the (mindless) ant-like unceasing acquisition of - load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after load after   load of never ever enough materialistic resources, for striving & gaining, achieving of 'success', grabbing of fame, realizing fortunes, then qualify us to be counted as one of the GREATS? 

  

Is THAT our  "responsibility, our purpose" in being here? 

Is there a purpose or responsibility?

Would we have gained any inch advancing toward what?

∆ No no no this is not a tirade agains basic human industry!

∆ No no no not a rant against basic human enterprise!

∆ No no no this is not an opposing of the set social pattern of sustainable human living!

∆ No no no this isn't an opposing of any national patriotic objectives!

∆ No no no this isn't against capitalism.

∆ No no no no this isn't a terrorists's idea to bring the country to a halt by promoting zero growth!

∆ No no no this isn't about a revival of Flower Children's power!

∆ No no no this isn't about free sex, or free food or free condoms or free needles or free weed, or free anything, at any time - as nothing is, was or ever is FREE!

Everyone with intelligence recognizes the necessity and reliance of life itself on consumption;  being body bound no one can transcend that physical material need for food, sustenance, water, air, sex, fornication, sports, surfing, WWW, beer, fast cars, golf, iPhone 6,  AND other more basic, more essential human needs like a Ferrari or maybe an island in the tropics filled with sea sun surf sex ? :)

BUT need one go overboard over that?

Please someone, please inform that old couple, aged beyond human productive AND reproductive years, traumatized by life long exhortations from national economic-index-raising-propaganda; 

work-abused to the bone by psycho implanted misconcepts about the usefulness, the glorious role of human industriousness, the heroics of being a super 'bacon bring-homer', media reconditioned & completely psycho-tuned to the ant-like mindless over-drive.

Please tell that couple opposite the block, it is alright now, it is OK to not open the shutters of their small can't-even-make-the-monthly-rent, convenience store, so fucking early at the crack of dawn  

That it is OK to stop chasing the Key performance indices, or to try  raise  the nations self reliance on sustainable individual citizens' collective effort for the promoting of national integrity and mindless chase after non essentials!

Tell them no need to do any of that anymore!

NO need to strive, especially not, to even try acquire GREATness or be FAMEous!

Just live out what He so lovingly gave each of us. A precious LIFE for a short sojourn through an awesome, impossibly beautiful, wondrous place we call our home - planet earth!                                                                  

 ›››››You mean there are NO BETTER things to do besides work ‹‹‹‹‹

›››››››› NOTHING BETTER than to waste precious days of our brief being-ness in the trivial useless pursuit of  success & the attempts at greatness ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹

All around us this awesomely designed, unimaginably beautiful, perfectly balanced place we call HOME is beckoning to us to

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"Hey STOP everything else"  

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