Planning to Improve the World

December 02, 2021

Planning to Improve the World - Part Eight

How do you tell the difference between playing and working?

How do you compare the concept of stability with the concept of certainty?

How do you compare the concepts of curiosity, creativity and management?

What have you already discovered about the magic of serendipitous reasonableness?

Perhaps you are imaginatively in the library of Frugality Cottage, now, mainly to experience an escape from the complexities of your existence.

You may prefer to enjoy fantasy stories while you are in libraries rather than experiencing the truth about your inadequacies as a leader.

You may not have much interest in seriously studying the investment notes and associated educational notes displayed in the library for your urgent perusal.

Perhaps you have retreated to the quaint, virtual cottage to remove yourself from problematic matters for a while.

Why are you reading this grimoire?

Your inadequate leadership is obviously a problem requiring urgent resolution.

You apparently require frequent reminders of your responsibilities.

What do you know for certain about political philosophy, and how do you know it?

How do you distinguish between political philosophy, political science and political mythology?

What do you know about political journalism, and how do you know it?

What do you know about philosophical journalism, and how do you know it?

What do you know about science journalism, and how do you know it?

If you do not usually associate civility with the media, you are certainly not alone.

Even so, you may seek advice through the media from time to time.

Summer officially began yesterday in Adelaide, and in the Adelaidezone.

What is your acquaintance with Australian bushfire seasons?

How do you compare wildfires with other fires?

What do you know about preventing uncontrollable fires?

How do you know you have adequate respect towards fire?

What do you know about climate courtesy, and how do you know it?

Perhaps you are yet to notice that Frugality Cottage is an investment house, a think tank and a quality location for your quaternary education.

Acquiring the most suitable skills for any important task is always an advantage.

Perhaps you have already developed your knowledge enough to lead a campaign of, and for, courtesy towards nature, and towards the future, and towards the preservation of valuable heritage in all its forms.

How do you assess the value of anything, or anyone?

Perhaps you tend to do so politically rather than philosophically or scientifically or historically or spiritually.

Unjust privileges and unjust disadvantages are often tied up in structures, especially political and economic structures.

Even though structures are associated with certainty, they are not necessarily associated with justice.

Please make the time to think about such matters carefully.

To improve the courtesy of politics in Australia may require something similar to a chivalric code, yet is certainly does not necessitate a return of knighthoods, or the continuation of aristocratic-dynastic privileges.

If you are looking for refreshing possibilities in and from Frugality Cottage, that is certainly reasonable.

But how reasonable are you, particularly politically?

Your creativity is apparently lacking.

You apparently have little knowledge about investing in urgent reforms.

You seem to know little at all about sublime splendour and hidden danger, particularly in relation to various forms of energy.

How do you ascertain the moral boundaries of your own explorations and other experiences?

What do you most appreciate about those boundaries and all they contain?

How do you define and express your appreciation of morality?

How do you define and express your disgust towards immorality?

If you currently trust your government, why do you do so?

If your government currently trusts you, why do its members do so?

While it is sensible to treat most political behaviour as a joke, particularly when clowns and their entourages regard democracy as a form of hunting, your duty is to transform the world for the better.

Perhaps you do not usually associate such a transformation with witches.

What is your acquaintance with the history of natural philosophy?

How do you compare Renaissance Platonism with Renaissance magic?

What do you know about the concept of homo faber, and how do you know it?

What do you know about the concept of the demiurge, and how do you know it?

What do you know about fire deities in various cultures?

Adequate respect towards fire, and light, is very important.

How do you compare respect for Hestia and Vesta with respect for Hephaestus and Vulcan, and respect for Prometheus?

What do you know about the sacred fire of Vesta in ancient Rome?

What do you know about 21st century fossil fuel lobbying as inappropriate fire worship and very dangerous black magic?

What do you know about various beliefs about holy places?

What do you know about various mythologies relating to the theft of fire for the benefit of humanity?

Perhaps you prefer to relate your moral principles to ancient texts rather than today's reality.

Perhaps you even attempt to impose your moral principles on people who have developed their own principles from various ancient and modern sources.

Why do so many people make inaccurate assumptions about cultural preferences and moral values?

Why do so many people make inaccurate assumptions about scientific fact, and historical fact?

What have you been learning from art history and the history of art, and how?

From the point of view of wonderful witches, the main problem in and with politics, everywhere, has always been the same. It is that people in positions of power have a tendency to become overly excited by and about power itself, at the expense of civility and democracy.

The situation continues to be the same whether the people in power have been elected or appointed to, or have inherited, positions of societal responsibility. It is also the same whether the power is associated with a parliament, a court of law, a government department, a diplomatic posting, or a lucrative position on an government advisory board or corporate board.

The excitement may be associated with political power, financial power or sexual power. It makes the office holder impudent. It makes the public impotent.

Yet who has had a responsibility to hold the impudent to account?

It is certainly not the politically impotent.

How can you prove you are investing in good faith, not unenlightened beliefs?

Where do you usually locate truth?

How have you ascertained the legitimate purposes of businesses and charities and hospitals and schools and clubs and associations of various sorts?

How have you ascertained the legitimate purposes of planning authorities?

How do you usually assess the workings of societies and states?

How do you usually identify problems within and between societies, states and environments?

What do you know about royalty and royalties in relation to deities?

If you are planning to improve the world, how have you assessed your sentiment in that regard?

How do you know you are capable of exposing charlatans appropriately?

Productivity should always be assessed objectively.

All uncertainty and apparent certainty should also be assessed objectively.

Perhaps you are already aware that objectivity is merely the attempt to avoid biases.

All healthy relationships are based on the qualities of genuine friendships.

What do you regard those qualities to be?

How do you know when investing in certainty is more important than investing in exploration?

What do you know about climate certainty?

What do you know about geological certainty?

What do you know about existential certainty?

How do you define the concept of elegance in relation to justice, productivity and kindness?

Perhaps you equate elegance with arrogant aloofness.

Perhaps you regard all aloofness as arrogant rather than elegant.

People in positions of privilege and/or ignorance often make the mistake of describing employment as work.

Employment is merely the use of time whether the time involves work or not.

Work is the expenditure of energy.

How well do you express a work ethic to help solve interpersonal, environmental, financial and political problems, and how do you know?

How do you compare physical work with intellectual work and creative work?

How much energy does your brain consume, and where and how does it acquire its fuel, and how often?

You may or may not regard work as the expression of effort, especially when you are doing work you enjoy.

You may or may not regard employment as mainly about making money, especially if you have no debts and you can easily afford the way of life you currently experience, at least financially.

You may or may not regard any jobs, or even all jobs, or at least the most ethical jobs, as mainly involving the protection, maintenance and improvement of health.

Many important jobs, tasks, chores and activities are not associated with making money. They are associated with the protection and improvement of mental health.

How do you usually assess labour of one sort or another?

How have you ascertained the legitimate purpose of states and nations and governments and legislatures and judiciaries and law enforcement authorities and military organisations and policing practices?

What have sacred mysteries taught you about political legitimacy, intellectual credibility and a suitable sense of purpose?

Persons in political positions of power, and religious ones, are often self-indulgent, arrogant and more than a little gullible. That is why they believe they are competent at governing and/or otherwise influencing societies for the better when the evidence suggests otherwise.

How do you ascertain whether information is trustworthy and sufficient for making good decisions?

How do you ascertain whether advice is appropriate and necessary?

What do you do when it is not?

If you are, or have been, religious or otherwise devoted to a belief system, have you ever been so misguided as to have a god complex?

Whether you have or not, do you have a deterministic view of your experiences, responsibilities and decisions?

What does understanding mean to you, and why?

Perhaps your mental image of money has cast a spell over you.

Perhaps you imagine everything in terms of money.

Perhaps your true self is someone you would rather not reveal or even know.

Perhaps you regard your entire experience of life to be a performance of stagecraft and/or statecraft.

Perhaps you regard life as a joke and experience itself to be mostly ridiculous.

Perhaps you look at the gold glass art of ancient Rome and the Fayum mummy portraits and Pompeian art and other Roman arts and wonder about the futility and ephemerality of existence.

If you have been using fiction as the only reasonable way to protect your private life and mental health, how do you know your uses of imagination never stray into the territory of misinformation, disinformation, unfair bias and other forms of cruelty?

How do you attempt to prevent yourself from feeling overwhelmed?

When, if ever, have you been regarded by anyone as a problem?

How do you compare fire deities with solar deities?

How do you compare beliefs about Sol Invictus with beliefs about the Tree of Jesse?

Without good questions and good faith, enlightened philanthropy is an impossibility.

What is your awareness of the philanthropy associated with this grimoire?

You will be aware, for example, that witchcraft is not a crime in any reasonable society.

Civility is obviously expected in Frugality Cottage, and throughout the Adelaidezone, at all times, by everyone, including boorish heads of state, arrogant heads of government and other discourteous persons.

Wonderful witches uphold civility with remarkable consistency.

You may be aware that stagecraft and statecraft are often muddled up and entangled together in most people's minds.

Such crafts are both problematic in terms of mental health, even when properly separated.

Wonderful witches mostly practice enlightened statecraft.

There is nothing controversial about enlightenment, even though unenlightened persons and their psychopathic and sycophantic minions may claim otherwise.

How can you prove you have been investing in the quality analysis of events to a sufficiently high standard and for a very important purpose?

How, for example, have you assessed
the Allegory of Isabella d'Este's Coronation by Lorenzo Costa the Elder and for what reasons?

Do you have a studiolo and/or cabinet and/or a private collection of some sort?

If so, does it have anything in common with the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris or with the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este in the Ducal Palace in Mantua?

Frugality Cottage is obviously a relatively humble location.

Nevertheless, it is associated with the practice of dignified, and even rarefied, digital xenia.

Where are you usually involved in addressing the grotesque?

What do you know about bulling as a grotesque practice?

You may already be aware that bullies are often confused. You may even be feeling confused yourself, even if you do not consider yourself to be a bully.