Infrastructure of Life

The Infrastructure of Life
By Robert Ringer

If you’re familiar with my works, you know that I’m a proponent of embracing change through action. Homeostasis, the tendency to live with existing conditions and avoid change, is a curse that paralyzes a majority of the human race.

While it’s true that we live in a rapidly changing world, it’s important to recognize that the daily changes we witness are changes in form only. The real substance of our universe, and thus of life itself, is comprised of universal principles. These universal principles, also known as axioms, truths, or natural laws, form the infrastructure for the stage of life on which each of us performs.

When the weather changes dramatically, as it has in the past several years, the universal principles (euphemistically referred to as “science”) that cause such radical changes remain firmly in place. Likewise, the economy may change, but, no matter how much mischievous politicians try to manipulate it, the free-market principles that underlie the workings of the economy do not change one iota.

Morally superior political-action groups can create fictions such as “hate crimes” — and even pressure weak-kneed politicians into making such fictions illegal — but human nature is such that people go right on hating anyway. It’s axiomatic that a human being’s thoughts cannot be forcibly repressed.

Technology changes on a daily basis before our very eyes. However our vanity blinds us to the reality that all we are really doing is rearranging atoms. Video games and iPods aside, the laws of molecular structure are the same today as they were in prehistoric times.

This is not just an academic discussion I’m engaging in here. On the contrary, it has everything to do with how you lead your life on a day-to-day basis. Any civilized religion has built into it, at least through implication, the sanctity of universal principles. (As always, my statement is meant to include the religion of atheism.)