Compassion and the Hologram

in a tangent off ArtPowerline's post here regarding holograms being constructed of tiny parts that are in themselves still the whole. Thinking of how this relates to culture, and compassion... How each one of us is the whole thing. This cultural hologram (this maya?) that is the US(for those of us in the US), and/or that is the "global community"... how it changes, with how we change, with how it changes, with...

(from Art Powerlines, read the whole thing to get the context, people:) If we are to make choices, then isn't it obvious that we need to make choices that may not be convenient choices? Corporate choices. How then does this dialogue begin, in a world of charity, philanthropy, corporate greed and cultural imperialism? As my friend in Sicily said, "To see the relative time of a human life span amidst a much bigger picture and from that place naturally or culturally speaking, we need to make choices for the future as a whole."

can we make choices for the future "as a whole"? and if each individual holds all the DNA for the cultural hologram, then really can't we make choices for ourselves (and that's how the personal is the political)

(From David Bohm,) "Each part contains waves from everything, and everything is then internally related to everything. It is only in the unfolding that things separate and are relatively independent."

separate and connected... compassionate. Making compassionate choices.

With compassion, issues of convenience become irrelevant.

(by the way, to be clear, as i use the word a lot here on the blog... when i speak of compassion, i am not referring to the Latin based version of the word that has to do with pity, sympathy, and even suffering and carries with it an air of condescension, that in itself connotes separation between our self and others.

i am speaking of the compassion used in other languages, that simply refers to "co-feeling" and describes not only living with one another's hardships, but also feeling with someone any emotion, even joy. An emotional telepathy that we all have, because we aren't actually separate.)