Default Setting

 Our default setting is created by our upbringing 

mixed with the survival instinct. If there is no 

curiosity beyond our rote training, the default 

setting is how we live our lives until something

happens to derail us from that track. If our default 

setting is great ambition, that is pursued

notwithstanding the effects that ambition has on

others. The same is true as when our default 

setting is self destruction.

The alternative to the default setting is to develop 

the mind through meditation so that our reactions 

to events are not based on previous habits, but

rather on our natural intelligence that sees what’s 

happening now and acts appropriately.

Through no default of their own,

many Americans believed “authority figures”

because who knew they were lying?

Now we do, so we can say the default is on us.