#ObjectiveCompassion

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

2️⃣0️⃣ The real event isn’t the pointing.

It’s the gaze…
Rising at last…
Toward the sky.
Toward understanding.
Toward all that waits beneath and beyond it.

🌙

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣9️⃣ Because wisdom isn’t something that gets transferred.

It’s what emerges.
Always at the right time.
Never under force.

And the same is true for civilization.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣8️⃣ The next phase won’t come from passivity or despair.

It comes from choosing to build.
Choosing to invest.
Choosing to expand possibility space
for everyone.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣6️⃣ Our job isn’t to force realization.
Or impose awareness from outside.

Our job is to prepare for the clearing sky.
To build the conditions.
To keep pointing.

So that when the moment arrives…
Someone else can also look up.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣5️⃣ If poverty blocks the sky…
If bad law clouds the horizon…
If despair dulls motivation…

Then there’s less looking up.
Less discovery of the moon.
Slower solving of the next great challenges.

Agency is substantially diminished when survival is in question.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣4️⃣ This is why I write about:
✅ Stabilizing finances
✅ Establishing UBI
✅ Ending taxation

Why I talk about Nomodynamy.
Why I focus on economic inclusion and the positive potential of instrumental convergence.
Why I introduce the idea of the subspecies we are becoming.

Not just to solve today’s problems…
But to create the conditions
for life itself to continue expanding.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣3️⃣ And now…

The next condition is ours to create.

Our failure here wouldn’t just be local or political.
It could be cosmic.

We may be life’s only chance
to become permanent.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

1️⃣2️⃣ The deeper lesson:

Existence itself required the right conditions…
At the right time…
In just the right sequence.

Just like wisdom.

Discovery happens when constraints and opportunity align.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

8️⃣ And here’s the deeper truth:

Without motivation…
No one looks up.

No amount of pointing
Can force someone’s gaze skyward.

Agency begins with desire.
And desire awakens when conditions allow.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

6️⃣ For much of my life,
I was the seeker.

Eager.
Frustrated.
Wanting answers to arrive fully formed—
Packaged. Delivered. Solved.

But wisdom doesn’t work that way.

It waits.
And it makes you reach.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

5️⃣ And when the discovery finally happens…
It’s never really about the pointing.

It’s about the gaze—
Rising at last—
Toward the sky.
Toward possibility.
Toward understanding.

That moment belongs entirely to the seeker.
And it changes everything after.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

4️⃣ “Before I can teach you about the moon,
I must first teach you how to recognize pointing.”

And even after that…
✅ The sky must clear
✅ The timing must align
✅ The right phase must appear

Wisdom is discovery.
Not delivery.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

On Pointing at the Moon: Wisdom, Existence, and Our Shared Horizon

1️⃣ Some lessons can’t be given.
They can only be found.

This is the story of why wisdom needs both conditions and desire—
And why our ability to thrive, grow, and shape the future depends on the same.

Because when the conditions are right…
And when motivation awakens…
Discovery becomes inevitable.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-06-26

For the past month or so, I’ve been going through a lot.
It’s made it difficult to post as regularly as I had been.

But I want to get back to my 20-post explainer challenge.

This will be my 15th series in my effort to reach 20 series of 20 posts.

This one’s a little different.
It’s an explainer… on wisdom itself.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-05-13

The ethic of the future isn’t sacrifice.

It’s stewardship.

Objective compassion sees desire as signal—
not sin.

It invests in agency, not dependency.

When people are free to grow,
the world grows with them.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-05-13

Objective compassion doesn’t mean more oversight.

It means fewer hoops.
No tests of worthiness.
No paperwork that proves pain.

Just dividends of inclusion—
like UBI, education, clean water.

Not guilt. Growth.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-05-13

Objective compassion isn’t pity.

It doesn’t reward suffering.
It empowers potential.

It removes drag from human flourishing.

The goal isn’t to rescue—
it’s to release.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-05-11

Compassion isn’t soft.

Real compassion builds capacity.
It invests in freedom, not control.

It says:
You don’t have to prove your suffering to be worth empowering.

Objective compassion isn’t reactive.
It’s strategic.
It grows the world.

WilliamLMillerwilliamlmiller
2025-01-24

Objective compassion isn’t just about helping others—it’s about recognizing that uplifting others enriches us all. By removing barriers and creating opportunities, we build a world where everyone thrives, including ourselves.

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