Kindness is NEVER EVER weakness. But weakness at many times can appear as kindness. when left without choice or power, one may become kind to appease those with power. At a time of desperation one may become kind as means for survival. But true kindness is kindness as a first principle; kindness as a choice.
You may find some very relevant points in the second half of this old article of mine: https://steemit.com/philosophy/@vimukthi/an-in-depth-critical-look-at-radical-transparency-and-its-challenges-pitfalls-and-the-eventual-spiritual-decay-and-the-loss-of
Thanks four your article, I took the time to thoroughly read it, and I do agree. Being taught to not think independently from early on in life is what deprives us from our power to choose our own thoughts and beliefs, which then ever more manifests into an autopilot state increasingly making ones's power and freedom of choice not an even a possibility, so outlandish this option appears to us.
Yet ultimately, the choice to not choose independently is also a choice which most people will inevitably have to take responsibility for EVENTUALLY. ;)
Amen! These choice-lessness is simply going to put things on autopilot and the result would be a completely predictable system. Basically it'll be self-induced fatalism. What makes us human is our ability to self-evolve and shift paradigms on or own. The universe doesn't compel us to create blockchains or travel to the moon. Universe doesn't compel us to meditate. We just choose to do so. I think the endings of The Matrix Revolutions and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The Ending was practically spelled out in the lyrics of the background music/chanting
Forgive my spoilers if you haven't seen Gurren Lagann. Watch the anime first and then watch the 2 movies which re-tell the plot in a much more grand way.
:) Thanks for the anime suggestion, I will surely have a closer look at it. The content of the spoiler is just that topic: who believes more in their power of choice? Whose belief in the power to choose is stronger? Ultimately, who believes more in the infinite Universe WITHIN? Who believes more in being the Universe?
Thanks a lot! ;)
I actually expanded these things into a post I was writing. I intended it to be short post. But it got lengthy and I feel like I only started the introduction.