The Origins of the Never Enough More Imperative
You are not
obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it
Rabbi
Tarfon, Ethics of the Fathers 2:16
Man, identified with his physical
body as ‘being’ himself, fears that physical death is his extinction. Given
this fear, and man’s bodily identification of his body as himself, man operates
from a state of ‘LACK’ (lacktose
intolerance). As a result, man seeks acquisition (Cain in Hebrew) as his principle
strategy (be it money, power, prestige, religious obedience brownie points
etc.) to secure immortality (continuation, permanence, certainty) now or in the
afterlife (physical resurrection) or at a minimum diversionary palliation.
More, more,
more
What the hell
are we all morticians
e.e.
cummings.
The
principle derivative tactic of the LACK Acquisition Strategy is More, More, More for Im-MORE-Tality.
Ironically, More, More, More
typically results in less, worse, and
later). The MORE heuristic itself is sequentially encased in a mutually
exclusive duality of shame versus pride. Starting with the utilitarian question
of whether one is useful, functional, or service OR not, the MORE-ality© Ladder
in one’s valuation ascension becomes
One is Right OR One is Wrong
(& if RIGHT) (&
if WRONG)
One gets MORE One
gets LESS
(& if one
gets MORE) (&
if one gets LESS)
One is BETTER One
is WORSE
(& if one is
BETTER) (&
if one is WORSE)
One is a WINNER One
is a LOSER
(& if one is
a WINNER) (&
if one is a LOSER)
One is GOOD One
is BAD
(& if one is
GOOD) (&
if one is BAD)
One is WORTHY(2) One
is WORTHless
(& if one is
WORTHY) (&
if one is WORTHless)
One is GODLY One
is EVIL
Thus, MOREality for Immortality is the
aim (consciously or unconsciously) of MOREons to satisfy or palliate their fear
(mortality) of their LACK (immortality).
An ongoing problem with the MORE
from LACK heuristic is: The ‘IF ONLYs.’ The IF ONLY illusory rap (by haves,
have nots, and have a little wants some more) goes like this: if only I have
this, if only I do that, if only – then I’ll be happy.
Happy, typically cut with impure HOPEium©,
is a gateway drug of acquisition’s MORE to satisfy the IF ONLY LACK. The
problem with the desired state of Happy
being achieved IF ONLY is when IF ONLY #1 is satisfied, IF ONLY #2 is promoted in
a never ending cycle. The MORE – IF ONLY
- Happy – sequence to attain permanence, continuation, certainty just recycles for
the LACKawannas of the LACKawanna
Be Tribe. And ‘more, more, more,’
becomes as Edward Abbey stated, ‘the ideology of the (deadly) cancer cell.’
Given the LACK, Acquisition, More, IF
ONLY, Happily Ever’after model, there
is ‘never enough’ and attainment of certainty, continuity, and permanence
becomes Sisyphusian - always just beyond
one’s HOPEium© fueled grasp.
