Chairs

Since early times chairs have represented power/authority. Today, they also stand for civic/community volunteerism and corporate opulence.

Plato philosophized that chairs were not real, but that the "form" of a chair - the idea of "chair" - was real.

Chairs elevate us off the Earth from which we are made and for a time trick us into thinking that we, as humans, may be greater than that of which we are created.

If "chair" is of the mind, then in an abstract sense it is true.

If consciousness arises out of the brain in a mysterious way, so also does the civic idea of a shared community.

Community is the common unity of a collective superconscious "social" mind that works toward at least one common beneficent end.

We now know that the Nova1 gene limited our sight, but made us more socially adept, just like how wolves lost intelligence to become more-social dogs.

Being social is what makes humans king of the world. It is why we invented and sit in chairs - socially elevated as one or 1.

Alan Hagedorn