Its so hard not to judge other people on your values even when you know you shouldn’t. I suppose thats why we’re always trying to find shared values, not so that when we find them we can judge others, but so that when we’re forced into a position of judgement or when we jump into a judgement, we at least have an understanding of the meaning of those values.

Much of my life is spent in being judged by others and for this reason these values take on so much more meaning. I judge too. Its not something that can be helped or avoided in the world of men. Everything is judgement. No man can judge another on anything less than shared values.

To impose your values on another in order to judge them is a bad way of doing business. I guess that’s why our society, our communities have a set of professed values. ‘Values’ is a dirty word these days when its assumed that every individual is able to hold their own values … You could say that our modern NeoLiberal value base is the profession of independent individual values. Its a recipe for ‘anarchy’ in the Liberal sense of the word but since the Liberal definition of anarchy is a corruption I’d like to refer to it as chaos.
So chaos it is. How can we judge when the basis of our judgement system is chaos? We can’t. We must wait for our chaos to clash to be put into a position of judgement on another in the first place, and then we judge via our individual conceptions of the others chaos. Its nonsense of course, because we do judge and our judgements are mostly accepted by others. So we don’t have individual independent values that are any use to us in judgement.
This is the state we have put ourselves into in this NeoLiberal World – a state of chaos. Its a false state, but it is not chaos anymore than it is Anarchy. If we can believe, that we can all live our lives with independent individual values then we live in a state opposite to Anarchy. This is good?

So to judge; how do we judge? We profess our shared values and subjugate our individual independent values to those we profess. And we do this for no other reason than that we wish to be able to judge. You can’t get away from it.

My point of this gibberish is that we do judge and we ACCEPT those judgements. We say we should not judge but we DO. We dismiss the idea of value; saying that it is an individual thing .. yet we use a shared value to judge others by – even when they do not share that value. How can this be possible? It seems the very definition of hypocrisy.

How can we presume to judge unless we have agreed to hold certain shared values, and how can we hold and know these values if we are unable to say and show what these values are? If they don’t exist except as individual independent values and they therefore are hidden away until the time of judgement – and in many cases even then not revealed – how does our society work? Is it only when you are the judge that there are actually values?

Our King says, “If you have a go then you get a fair go!” What does this mean?

“In themselves books do not exist; Books are only words, even if words are precious. What is precious in words are ideas” – Zhuang zi