What percent of value based systems fall into one or more of the following categories? They...

• are arbitrary in nature
  
• are stuck in the physical world
  
• are designed to accommodate common flaws associated with humanity
  
• only exist to create value for the purveyor
  
• offer false hope but no results due to internal conflict and hypocrisy
  
• grant power or purpose to insecure people who would otherwise have none
  
• were altered from their original state and/or are dumbed down and repackaged to where they fall into one of the above categories

What attracts most people to (compromised) positions of power is the notion that they can leverage their worldviews for personal gain, but the need for power and leverage come from weaknesses in our egos or other internal conflicts.

It is hard to be happy unless you are learning at ever accelerating rates. It is hard to sustain happiness if you subscribe to a one size fits all belief system.

And the trick is, to be successful, I think you have to believe in something, but anything worth believing in is rarely accessible via the most common communication channels. They are too polluted with too much baggage and too many invisible stakeholders.

You only find things worth believing in by pushing back at the world and analyzing what is returned. The more you believe in good stuff the more good stuff will be returned to analyze and eventually some of it will make sense as long as you are willing to live in the present realizing that doing so is creating a future you desire.

Or maybe my values are completely hosed and all this is wrong. :)