Culture
Describing Jjinoran culture is an impossible task, but when attempted can be quite shocking to hear by those who have never visited. Much of earthly culture is based on human constructs, which we obviously don’t have on the Planet of Jjinora… since we have no humans! Items like jobs, processed food, time, sitcoms and more are absent.
Our culture is based on life as it naturally evolved, with each being living off the land, water, air and other mobile and sedentary beings on Jjinora. We spend our time in nature, staying in touch with the planet and allowing ourselves to be flexible to accommodate the whims of the planet and other living beings. In fact we keep the population of our higher intelligence beings low so we can retain balance between species and our planet, while maintaining a larger percentage of nature in-tact so we can remain grounded in nature.
Where we do align with Earth is that we have advanced technology, hence our ability to travel to planet earth. However, we don’t enslave ourselves to technology and over time have grown less attached and reliant on such technology so we can return to our roots and live as one with the planet and the other living beings on the Planet of Jjinora.
Identity
All living beings on our planet are first and foremost “Jjinoran.” This identity rules supreme over all other identities and unites us as one. We consider not only our species to be Jjinoran, but all living beings. This includes sedentary beings, mobile beings and the planet itself to be one in the same.
Through this unifying identity, we are not plagued with the curse of nationalistic divisions or Political Divisions and hence we have no flags, anthems, or other human constructs that you have created to separate and divide yourselves.
This unifying identity doesn’t make us the same though. We are an incredibly diverse planet and earth’s diversity pales in comparison to Jjinora’s. However, unlike on planet Earth, we embrace our differences, which make us each unique and allow us to bring our own talents, abilities and perspectives to the conversation.. These differences are embraced as a part of each person’s identity, however these identities never rise above being Jjinoran, which unites us no matter our differences.
If humans simply prioritized their uniting identities over the identities that divide you, you’d have no such violence, wars or hatred. Of course, such self-identification must begin at youth and supported by all.
History
Jjinora was born from the smashing of objects in space, gaining density and mass until we settled around our star with our fellow planets. Our planet grew without many living beings for many rotations of our star. It slowly developed the environment needed to host sedentary and, later, mobile beings.
Jjinora, the planet, embraced us and encouraged our growth and development through a process you call evolution. Jjinora nurtured us, giving us water, air, land and an atmosphere. The planet’s process was slow, but ever-evolving until Jjinora became what it is today.
Like here on earth, our sedentary beings fought for space and resources. Naturally, this led to arguments and fights, even using each other for food, shelter and survival. However we evolved this way and our beings needed each other to survive. Sometimes this caused tension, seeing other living beings as enemies. This is all familiar to you on Planet Earth.
As the living beings evolved at various paces, and intelligence varied greatly between beings, our planet became one of exploitation. We moved from a planet where the strongest, or best adapted, survived to a society in which Intelligence ruled and traits like greed took control over.
Many of our most intelligent beings began exploiting others so they could live in excess. There was a shift from simple survival to greed. Our most intelligent beings choose comfort and want over the very survival of other living beings! They destroyed others and Our Planet to make their own lives marginally better.
This advancement in intelligence led to organization, creating unity, but also division. It led to great technological advancements and sharing of information, but separated our living beings between the “us” and the “them.” This is what you call civilization.
We established structures and Governmental Systems to provide systematic structure to our greed and exploitation. Only the strongest thrived and the rest were lucky to survive. It is with sad admission to state that it was my species that led this exploitation, however it was also my species that, eventually, acknowledged its flaw and altered its path.
Jjinoran’s mobile beings finally came to a moment of reconning, recognizing the destruction they were making on other mobile beings, sedentary beings and Jjinora itself. I’m afraid planet earth may soon be upon this same reconning in your near future. This was a difficult time for us that led to greater division and hatred, but we endured and it improved. I hope planet Earth will also endure.
Our moment of reconning helped us re-discover that those living beings around us are more important than our distractions. It was the return to the planet and nature that saved us. Something as simple as putting ourselves in nature and using our bodies as they evolved to be used goes quite far.
Through passing generations of challenges and education, eventually all living beings began the process of gaining respect for each other and returning to what our instincts tell us to do. We destroyed barriers and division to unite under a single, most important, identity.
It’s so ridiculously simple, but true, that changing the order in which we identify can lead to peace, yet it did. The challenge was not finding this solution, but convincing all living beings to do this… and to teach them how to do this by releasing their pride, distrust and selfishness.
Despite the progress that has been made since our time of reconning, some living beings continued to struggle, and the distrust, selfishness and pride that caused this division are not gone, but simply less visible.
The greatest advancement from this moment of reconning was a change to our governmental structure. It was during this time that we created our Planetary Councilocracy, which has proven successful for thousands of earth years.
Since the unification of Jjinora, and the shift to view others with a global perspective, we have continued to rid ourselves of addictions to technology and material possessions. Today, Jjinora’s technology has shifted from use for one’s personal gain, exploitation or entertainment, to educational endeavors, the advancement the living beings, to support our planet and to support our interplanetary exploration.
These changes occurred some time ago. We’re not entirely sure when because dates are a human construct we don’t engage in. When we look at history, we only study the why, or the causes and effects, not the when or the who. Names are not found in our historic traditions and living beings of the past are neither vilified nor praised; they are only studied in generalizations to understand what happened, why and how to grow from this knowledge.
Our future, we believe is intertwined with our present and our past so our history continues to live now and into the future.