Elucidating Questions

Why does everything have to be the “best” it can be?

Best being subjective and we have a serious problem with thinking because we’re “living in modern times” that our way is the “best” way

Like some things you want to be the best it can be

Medical care, nutrition, water rights, what have you

But what if those “bests” are attained through moderation?

When you seek to be the best at something

It’s not long before your desperation will allow you to do unspeakable things to attain that “bestness”

Why can’t we settle for middling things

Acceptable houses, acceptable buildings

Things that stand and do their jobs

They can be beautiful but why are we creating completely inaccessible buildings just so architects can aim for “best” (which apparently means your building has to look nothing like a building half the time)

Why does beauty have to be a competition?

Why can’t things just be beautiful?

Everything for that “best” position

It’s the competition aspect of this world that really puts me off of it

What’s wrong with adequate?

Sure we could regrow a limb and sew it back on

What ethics are you willing to throw out the window to learn how?

Sometimes humanity’s constant quest for greater, better, stronger, more powerful

Feels like it will be both its undoing and its legacy

Couldn’t accept good enough

Consuming everything for the sake of it

Beautiful, but much less, clothing

Why do we need thousands of clothing companies?

Billions of options which change every season?

Who cares if you’re wearing the same clothes as someone else?

Why can’t that be seen as having similar interests?

Why do you need 70 outfits?

Who cares if you wear the same outfit twice?

Why can’t you have a week’s worth of clothing and just curate your look?

Seven days of clothing is already seven times more outfits than most anime characters have

Why do you need more?

Anime characters deserve more clothing

Free the laundry

Anyways

It just seems like if things are working, why do they need to be “better”

If you have enough why do you need more?

People tell me to settle for less all the time

They tell me to live with what I have and be happy with it

I don’t want to bring people down to my level

I want to equalize us out so we’re all getting enough and finding joy in moments and places and activities again

Without being simultaneously terrified of whatever boogeyman of capitalism is haunting us that week

Humanity is so off balance it’s about to topple over and I’m not ready for what comes next

The more I live the more souls are sacrificed to the gods of war

In this ballooning quest for greatness, and being the best

There is no light in the sky signifying the return of any children of the gods to help us defeat ourselves

Though the Wind and Ocean swirl and churn

Will their efforts help anything?

Sometimes I hear the rage that is in the Wind

I saw the Ocean’s rage when I crossed her the other day

I may only know my own but she was dark, and she was holding fury beyond measure

I wonder

Was Gaia aiming for greatness when she sprang Life from her loins?

Was Saturn aiming for the best when he captured the first rock in his collection?

Was The Great Red Spot Jupiter’s claim to perfection?

Did Pluto strive for the biggest heart in the solar system?

I do not believe that “greatness” is manufactured

I believe it is attained when we as humanity work together to make our lives better

When we nourish the abundance on this planet and nurture the life around us to its most contented, most cared for

You can not be the best by having more, using more, taking more

Nor by claiming to be the best without the health and prosperity of the planet to back you up

Humanity will never be the best until it stops treating this planet and the things living on it as commodities to be amassed

Stops treating others as part of the competition

Stops acting like there’s a pinnacle of consumption to reach

And stops demanding greatness from things that don’t need to have it