myth's Belated DMSI 3.1 Journal

[SargeMaximus]

"I don't believe you should go to your garden and chant, 'There's no weeds, there's no weeds,' and think that that's going to solve something." - Tony Robbins

http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-robb...ork-2016-7

Presuming that you mean that ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away, you're misunderstanding my point.

What I'm saying is that blame/anger/etc is baggage that you don't need to carry forever. It's a guest that's sleeping on your couch indefinitely, preventing you from using that couch for sitting. To me, dwelling on the fault of others (even in the name of justice) is often as empty as putting a "so-and-so broke me" sign on an elevator -- it doesn't fix the elevator to know who broke it or why or to punish or shame them for breaking it. Fixing the broken elevator is what fixes the elevator.

I'm not saying to ignore the broken elevator or wish it away. I'm saying that blaming someone or focusing on why they broke it is not a useful step in fixing the actual elevator. When the goal is to fix the broken elevator, not start a war against people who've broken elevators (rebel) or start breaking them yourself (submit). Those are just distractions from the real problem -- the elevator needing to be fixed and (hopefully) reinforced against further breakage. And, again, that's just an opinion, and I apologize if my earlier explanation was unclear.

Ah, I got you. Thank you for clarifying that.

I agree with you in that we need to focus on "fixing". However, if there were a bunch of criminals that kept breaking elevators, what would be gained by simply fixing the elevators? Justice is needed to restore balance and to keep bad things from reoccurring. So the criminals would have to be punished in some way.

Now, I don't know what those are metaphors for, just thought I'd point out that simply fixing something does not necessarily fix the real problem.

Anyhow, to fix anything you need 2 things:

1. Know what's wrong
2. Know how to fix it

I'd say we're still in the process of developing those 2 in regards to DMSI.