“Right Ones” means “There Is Only One Right”

I was having lunch with a dear friend yesterday.  We were talking about current issues.  On one topic he became very adamant in his desire to convince me of the truth by emphatically stating “The world has moved on!  As far as the world is concerned this is a done deal.”  As is the case with dear friends we let that topic rest and moved on to others.  But my mind never relinquished the field.  He is right in his assessment that the world has moved on but wrong in his belief that because of mass movement the truth has been established.  If history has taught us one thing it is this; the world often moves on but moves on in the wrong direction.  This produces greater and greater confusions.  As the world moves on in the wrong direction their current situation, now further from truth than their former, is used to construct their current map for moving forward.  This forward movement, seen as advancing, is actually an even worsening of our current position ad nauseam.  Another truth that can be thought about is an old hiking axiom.  When one finds oneself lost the best course of action is to sit down and stay there until you are found.  The reason for this is that when one becomes aware of being lost they tend to accelerate their motion in hopes of finding their way, which generally tends to get them even more lost.  Here is the truth in this.  At any given point one can move into any one of 360 directions.  Of those 360 only 1 is right and 359 are wrong.  Now if you are only lost by one step and take a step you will actually be able to see the right choice and pick it.  However if you have walked two miles in that same wrong direction you are now hopelessly lost and very much more so than if you had of just chosen to sit down and wait for help.  If you accelerate your movement, which humans tend to do when lost, you will be moving forward in the belief that you are more quickly moving toward your target when you are actually moving more rapidly into “lostness.”  Another truth worth considering is that there are many more wrong directions than there are right ones.