Gabriel Bastião on Nostr: Krishna told Arjun that he must fight. And in the same way we got to act. But we must ...

Krishna told Arjun that he must fight. And in the same way we got to act. But we must not be attached to the results, since the merit belongs to God. He told Arjun to focus his mind on him wile doing all the work. Same way Catholic intelectual GK Chesterton, said that our problem is not lack of modesty. But that we became modest with our convictions, and arrogant about ourselves and our own capabilities. When the man for himself is enough, he do not have the need to improve himself, to become better. So, we see nowadays a world of fragile, insecure people, who have no convictions, but got to show something to the others. In this context of world, I like to call modernity, I saw a video wich argues "aesthetics beat arguments" and makes total sense since people are focused on show something to others and that the others perceive then by the group aesthetics (colllectivism). As a libertarian I understand this feeling of being caught between crossfire, and think that things will only change, if we manage to put God and transcendency in first place. The Bible says to "look for God things first, and everything else will be added to your life". It is indeed very difficult acomplishing this, but must be the way...