“My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth is a Pathless Land
Set Men?
The words “to set men” implies an outside agent (other than men, acting on men) that is determining – setting – men.*
Like our pushback on the 100th Monkey: transformation can’t come from an external agent. Transformation can’t just happen to people. Transformation happens through first-person learning.
Our concern is learning to steward humankind’s (first-person-inner-agency) learning towards being ever more healthily learning-oriented and able (implicitly freer from conditioning).
* It’s also an archaically gender-biased construct (if only in languaging ?) – Also “set” may just have been a limitation of his language at that time. He was all about inner agency.
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