THE 鈥楬uman Project鈥� is a conceptual blueprint for fostering socially and fiscally responsible economic justice, especially in systematically exploited, excluded, and disempowered communities. By focusing on social equity and deep investment in human capital and thereby engineering shared prosperity as the sustainable return, the Human Project aspires to bring a better and more balanced and sustainable world to life.
Now let us assume that words and phrases are diversely understood signs and signifiers that signify referential concepts as rationally encoded simplifications of deeply complex experiences in a perpetual state of flux. Because the same words may mean different things to different people, only the right combination of cognitive flexibility and emotional intelligence enables us to define the terms of probable contention in a civil conversation, subsequently bridge pointless misunderstanding, and finally generate an environment of legitimate disagreement where we can agree on the facts but disagree on the semantics and interpretation.
Then depending on the dynamism, agility, and scalability of those baseline concepts informed by cognitive flexibility and emotional intelligence, conceptual permutations, combinations, variants, and divergences can either add or subtract value to the construction, maintenance, and enhancement of the Human Project.
In other words, a positive function of language for the holistic benefit of humanity beyond intellectual and commercial questions and answers is to systematically observe and then simplify multi-dimensional and inherently infinite complexity of the phenomenal world in order to identify and extrapolate patterns from the apparent chaos of irregularity and anomaly in the spontaneous order of things.
Prompted by the playful neuro-cognitive symbiosis of the heart and the mind, the synergy of such theoretical and experimental effort attempts to temporarily restrain and round up a wild stampede of linear and non-linear ideas as a deeply human experience and practice.
Assumption-tested techniques derived from such efforts over a tested period of time may improve the accuracy and interpretability of a number of regression models in sociopolitical theory and add substantial value in generating desirable and sustainable outcomes across a wide range of practice areas in the Human Project, from real-world economics and finance to real-world politics and society.
Such generative journeys tend to be filled with both anticipated and accidental milestones we stumble upon, without any final destination. As a pure process with its own set of rewards, rather than a decisive event that terminates the process with a final outcome, circumspect language can be used as a dynamic toolkit to systematically uncover and connect dots in order to solve incremental and disruptive as well as material and aesthetic problems through hyper-focused creativity and innovation.
Aside from providing pleasurable nourishment to our internal senses, the utility of language as a tool can also be used to carefully deconstruct or destroy what is bad for the Human Project, and reconstruct or create what is better from its rubble.
On the other hand, the popular use of reactionary language and polemics as a Swiss cheese conjecture, wrapped in unreason and logical fallacy, and then packaged as 鈥榯he obvious truth鈥�, often at the detrimental expense of facts, cognitive flexibility, due process, and the immense value of multiple lenses and perspectives, can only and unsurprisingly move the deprived and the exasperated in the other direction towards unmanageable moral, ethical, and material savagery.
Such vicious conjectures are almost always gospelised, sermonised, and proselytised ultimately for the material benefit of collusive clusters of evangelists inebriated on toxic power, stridently sublimating their collective pathology on social media to monetise their manipulative influence.
That particular road to perdition, even under the transient and dystopic conditions that continue to frame the overarching narrative of our mortal lives, almost inevitably leads to the exercise of unilateral power without the possibility of a counter-narrative, let alone a role reversal, chokingly imposed as 鈥渇or our own good鈥� without the presence of the conveniently excluded and silenced voices.
Yet the humble, the modest, and the grateful warriors consistently resist such tyranny 鈥� whether deposed or reemerging, or immature in its emergence 鈥� hold on to an inextinguishable desire to 鈥榚njoin what is good with good intentions, and forbid what is harmful, despite good intentions鈥� because of the transcendental music of love in their hearts and the beauty before their internal and external senses.
Justice as an organic extension of that sensibility is a human desire. The inseparable confluence of duly legislated and just laws, both in principle and in form, is a deeply interconnected manifestation of the human desire for justice. Tyranny germinates, incubates, infects, and spreads when that endeavor is compromised, subverted, and fabricated into a de facto system of reactionary repression and oppression that enforces those laws selectively rather than equally, often in letter and in spirit, in order to inflict rather than prevent harm. They are a clear and present danger to the Human Project and must be exposed, isolated, and neutralised to the fullest extent of the law.
For any authentic and noble human aspiration to come to life, we must hack and tune into the incessant stream of pure hope that makes this mortal life worth living. We must act and lovingly shoulder the responsibility of those we love as privilege rather than burden, and when the time comes, risk life and limb to experience the freedom of our righteous resistance to tyranny and injustice by any righteous means necessary.
Of course, it is hard and that is precisely why it is worth doing as managers of the Human Project who must simultaneously and persistently be engaged in annihilation of the ego to do a better job.
Perhaps we are truly free only when we defy and resist egocentrism, injustice, greed, lust, gluttony, anger, euphoria, depression, and taking cruel and brutal pleasure in the pain and suffering of others, not as daily battles that must be waged in our hearts and minds, but as normalised and accepted states of being in an unjust environment.
That is the sort of freedom which, regardless of consequences and outcomes, is impossible to take away from us unless we fail to recognise the ominous signs of incipient tyranny and inadvertently surrender our hardwired desire to treat others the way we wish to be treated ourselves.
Also known as the Golden Rule, this widely accepted truth foundationally binds all spiritual systems designed to sustainably generate inner and social peace since time immemorial by ensuring the presence of justice in our mortal lives.
The most arrogant oppressor does not wish to be oppressed by the arrogant yet continues to be arrogant and oppress. The biggest cheat and liar does not wish to be cheated on and lied to, yet continues to cheat and lie. The biggest thief does not wish to be the victim of theft yet continues to steal.
For what? Is a piece of power and vanity in a dystopic and transient world informed by our inevitable mortality really worth sacrificing nurturing excellence of character and subsequent peace of mind? How much historical data do we need to test and train an already time-tested and proven norm?
As per the golden rule that continues to unite and remind all human hearts of what it means to be human, there can be no justification for privileging one鈥檚 own identity whilst delaying and denying the rights of others to receive fair and equal treatment under the law.
One must remain innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, because the just and truly revolutionary response to deposed tyranny is not reactionary reprisal without justice and the rule of a good law, but structurally rectifying a broken system used by the deposed tyranny in order to deny all those who dared to speak truth to power against the pandemic of moral corruption and material harm under their watch.
There is simply no alternative to coming out of the self-defeating comfort zone of privileged identity that by definition devalues and hounds 鈥榯he other鈥�. We must break the vicious pattern of ulterior motives, unreason, hearsay, torment, and extortion that makes tyrants love the chains of power without realising that they too are shackled by them.
Justice delayed to the 鈥榦therised鈥� because of their class, politics, ethno-cultural identity, subjects of devotion, spiritual path, or gender is a gross subversion and miscarriage of justice stuck in a tragic and endless loop of moral and ethical corruption that leads to more social turbulence and instability.
We do not have to become what we rightly resist. We must not fail to act and act now so that truth may prevail over falsehood in a society of duly legislated laws designed to inspire righteousness by example and actively prevent material harm by promoting justice for all.
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Zainabiyoun Al-Haqililsulta is an internationally certified expert in strategic business management and industrial psychology with differentiated specialisation in behavioural finance, market psychology, trading psychology, heuristics, psychographics, psychometric assessment, and neurocognitive and behavioural systems.
