Ethics is lodged within us all

COSMIC CURTAINS
Ethics is lodged within us all. Just as our makings are. We spring from a cosmic process  founded, science tells us, on a small collection of patterns. We discover these as we move in the same direction as the cosmos. The most obvious pattern is the least acknowledged. It is the inherent presence of ontological values  in every soul  on our small planet. Each action we contemplate is met by phalanx of blunt truths  that constitute the very center of ethics. Are we being tolerant? Are we being helpful? Are we being democratic? Are we avoiding idolatry?
What we call conscience is the presence of these ethical benchmarks within each of us. Each one can be shown to interact with the others. Each addresses the foundations of true progress, toward a cosmos that reflects the intended pattern for humankind,  set from the foundation. This is the "more" that Hamlet could have told.
If this seems overblown and arbitrary it is because of the mess that  we've made of ethics. We've lived by binary  either-or thinking which issued in narrowness, thoughtlessness and betrayal of the aesthetic mandate  to achieve beauty and truth in our living. The revolution of this century is the recovery of the ontological values within us all.
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