Solomon,
hate to disturb you
but I have a question.
If I could grant you only one deepest love wish
for what you would achieve as your greatest strength
which virtue would you choose?
Well, thanks.
Great question.
Do we have such powers? I wonder.
What have others asked for?
Information about popular precedents,
including old age resilient outcomes,
could be helpful.
Some of the more popular gift requests
you already have covered,
in large part by being born into wealthy royalty,
but also endowed with those tall,
dark,
and handsome genes,
and your unusually resonant internal strengths
that will sustain your exterior beauty.
Top requests
include unilateral power over others,
to get one’s most effective
and efficient controlling way.
Then there is also unitarian power with others,
to invite our most authentic
inclusively cooperative compassionate way,
more popular with unstraight
unwhite
unmale polyamorous transgendered
human sapients.
Then there are requests for fame,
although these seldom, if ever,
seem to arrive as requests for love of fame,
suggesting some confusion between virtuous values
and vicious disvalues
Committing minds with bodies to fame’s opportunities
comes with traumatizing risks of vicious infamy,
emotionally malnourished neglect
and, too often, mind and/or body abuse
of empowered condemning authorities,
habitually threatening to withhold investments
in more positively valued
deep listening
democratically dialectical
powering-with affections.
Choosing wealth of unilateral fame
for a well-knowledged mind,
well-skilled
and bountifully beautied body,
will attract both passionately pleased admirers
and enviously displeased dissenters.
The stronger this public fame
the more concomitant private concerns develop
about personal future infamy,
loss of autocratic altitude,
and, with this chronic anxiety,
a growing sense of merely going through productive motions
without sustaining consumption of passionately engaging emotions,
more associated with greater love of wisdom’s resiliently healthy bodies
with resonantly democratic wealthy minds.
In the older age end, then,
it seems we have no other rational outcome choice
but love of regenerative power-with positive reputation
defending against my lust for power-over negative disputation
Wisdom balancing LeftBrain’s deductive powers
engaging virtuous ecological systems
are also Elder RightBrain’s inductive powers
with analogically co-arising
ecopolitical sapient wisdom.
Do we have such powers?
I remain in sacred wonder,
to engage wisely virtuous organic choices
more democratically empowering together,
rather than more infamously disheveled apart.
gdill52 