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Why do humans think and behave as if just because they were born in a town, attended a school or live in a state or country, that they are supposed to or have to support those places, their teams and anything that comes out of those places?For instance, you think you have to be in love with the northside or Chicago or Illinois or their sports teams or the Midwest or the Usa or Chicago-style pizza or hotdogs or Lake Michigan or the Taste of Chicago or the climate and culture of Chicago. Likewise New Yorkers feel they have to be proud of Central Park, Broadway, Times Square and much more. This type of devotion is the same as being born into a religion or any ideology and not understanding it or not investigating it for yourself before remaining devoted to it once you reach the age where you claim you are capable of making life decisions.
To devote yourself to anything is the same as pledging allegiance, making a vow, falling in love. Thus devotion is supposed to be reserved for that which is worthwhile, worth the time, effort, attention, resources, mindspace, emotionspace and spiritspace. By default this implies a conscious critical analysis thought process of evaluating the pros and cons of several or all alternatives – and adjusting as you learn more.
To be devoted to anything just because that's where you were born, live or went to school is the same as basing devotion on something outside your control or basing devotion to something based on your decision pertaining to something else. For instance, being devoted to the Chicago Bears because you live there but not because your decision to live there was based on the Chicago Bears.
Of course there are some people who have just enough good enough sense to not tie their devotion to a sports team just because they were born there or live there. This is one reason why there is hope for more of the hopelessly devoted.
Likewise then, this is why we should base each of our paraphernalia paraded and psyche plated devotions on a separate thought process evaluation. Thus we should not just accept, adopt and be allegiant to a set of philosophies, laws and cultural constructs just because we claim citizenship to some place. To so do in any way, is the same as drinking all the juice Jim Jones produces or being easily seduced to doing so due to not thinking through the logic we choose to use.
Being devoted to a sports team is not life critical; however, it is highly indicative of a tendency or habit of using poor thought processes. The underlying lazy brain basis of those poor thought processes is what is most critical, most dangerous. It causes us to be devoted to governments and their agencies, departments and the intentional misapplication of their written constitutions and mission statements. It causes us to be devoted to certain media as opposed to being devoted to truthseeking wherever the process leads. It causes us to be dedicated to military, police and other institutions. It causes us to be devoted to logic that infringes on the inherent rights of creation. And so on it goes, giving us more logic woes than we have fingers and toes to reckon with and keep track between two truth rails of the gap of tolerances that allows our train to stay balance supported and on track.
I am devoted to Africa because of what it has done and is doing for the world.
I am not devoted to Africa, as represented by the 55 countries and their political constructs. I am not devoted to Africa, the people who support those self-destruct societies (a redundancy of terms) living on the land of Africa, the nucleus. To say destruct societies is like saying killer poison.
I am devoted to Africa, the cytoplasm and its components. In other words, to the rest of the natural world that comprises Earth. It is only in this manner that I am devoted to the USA as part of the natural world because it contains and provides connection to all the ancestral seeds I need in the form of souls of life.
Deeper Devotion
We know what vote means. Or do we?Vote is the same word as Mate. What we vote for is what matches our logic, is a mate to our logic.
De-Vote is to define, develop, determine, dedicate and decide to have a lasting relationship with logic that matches ours, thus leads us to being devoted to something, someplace, someone.
When we devote ourselves to anything we are saying the object of our devotion is a good fit, a complement to who I am being by choice. Thus, by extension, our devotions are part of our voice. What we are devoted to, speaks for us, tells things about us.
Blood Not Thicker Than Watered Down Identities
Meanwhile, most people are not devoted to the bloodline of everyone being born from the same African woman and African male. This lack of devotion to family is evidenced by any number of evidences, most of which are easily to recognize.On the other hand, far too many of us are devoted to bad parenting from physical parents, from schools, from religions, from television, from news media, from experts and from elsewhere in the culture. Sadly, we allow unquestioned default devotions to tie us to things unhealthy and then we turn around and cancel the default of one blood, one family tree and one creation. We break these bonds with words shaped like sticks and stones broken logic regarding race, culture, country and many other suboptimal identifiers. We do so as if we are in the habit of thoroughly vetting our most important devotions.
Devotion is the same as love, which is why misguided devotion is misguided affection which becomes affliction. A clear example is voting for Trump and playing around with impeachment and what you get is the affliction of insurrection. Secondly, affection turned affliction comes by way of voting for incumbents when all you get is redundant numbness of depraved hearts and minds to inequities.
Why do humans think and misbehave these ways in terms of our devotions?We are trying to glean self-esteem from things rather than from our being.
