It was just... a place to grind your grain

                            

             Utilitarianism    (In my own words)                             

                                                            

When determining what happens how, Mills was earnest to prove happenings are what we how. If your ultimate “how” is an acquiescent happy sauntering of a humanistic “what” in the supposed direction of “happenings”, your actions will be good. Take the act of turning on a light for example. You happen to flip a light switch that refuses to turn on because you shrugged off materialism, sloughed out of a liberal college and demystified the conundrum that you are now toggling the light gadget of an abandoned building that has no power. Instead of remedying the visual handicap like some current conductive Christ Casanova you might create, sit and enjoy the pleasures of a utility pipe-can fire while pondering the humble teachings of Siddhartha and humming a whore house hymn with members of the New Patagruel Church. If your free will has guided you towards happiness with these desires, which have also benefited others that you have encountered and those you might stumble upon, perhaps you are closer to the illumination of Mill’s Utilitarianism.

Mill exhibits sensuality and inner awareness as stimulants to our initial core of knowledge so they may be used realistically. Furthermore, the reformed primal instinct touching the terminal spire is desire. Next, he squabbles that if an object is in our view of perception, it is possible to be observed. If a tree falls in the proximity to stimulate our tympanic membrane, it is possible to be heard. So it goes if happiness is the point of our steeple, then analogously, it is desirable.  

If you enjoy humming hymns, do well and believe you have a message to share perhaps you decide to take your show to the subway and perform for change that could otherwise be given to an alcoholic nomad who does not possess vocal talent. There is happy goodness through your actions which in turn create happy goodness in another’s peace of mind and also the inebriated week day warrior of intoxicating character is forced through poverty to sober up to the happy goodness surrounding him. Furthermore, good is produced in an individual through happiness. If each individual is happy then the society is also happy, which is good. 

The ultimate goal in mind that Mill argues is happiness. If you have decided to take your show to the subway to share because there is a message you believe you are delivering, even if that message is virtue, you are still ultimately creating happiness for yourself because you enjoy what you do and do well. If you are virtuous while doing then it is merely a preface of how you administered your sensuality and inner awareness, thus your realistic knowledge to achieve happiness. It was a rung in the ladder you climbed to reach the ranks of subway crooning.

Furthermore the other man, who gave you a buck and change, when he takes a step towards the 14^th and F train, someone tosses out a dollar bill to his feet. So every step he takes he is picking up a dollar bill. It motivates him to walk in this direction everyday. Because you are there and he finds your message a reminder of virtue, the man drops a buck and some change into your hat to coerce you to play there again the next day and receive another buck and some change. You, who shrugged materialism, have found that paper burns well in your pipe-can fire and this green paper does especially well as a starter. However; so does newspaper that is everywhere and no one is dropping it in your hat. So the next day you are off to another sub entrance. The point is for those who understand; money is a way to purchase things and does not provide happiness in itself. Perhaps though you decide you would like to start a collection of five dollar bills and get ideas to further express a growing disdain for capitalism and desire to demonstrate this by erecting a giant wooden man wearing a suit of green Lincoln nickel notes and setting him ablaze in the desert sands of Nevada. For some time your desire would shift to obtaining as many five dollar bills as possible. It would seem you spire would grow larger than the steeple, like the Salt Lake federal building or the tower of Babylon, resulting in a crumpling pile of government ashes containing the burnt bills. Though the love (or hate) of money was a means to the end, money itself was not the tip. The memories of the ash used to paint gatherers faces were closer. The ultimate would be whatever symbol you used to portray whatever your meaning was. The meaning was the ultimate spire. Memories and meanings are as power and fame. They have no physical currency, they help attain other desires and are sometimes desired more or mistakenly synonyms. The mistake and difference is that a greedy or an unwisely powerful person may find themselves separated from the society, while a selfishly virtuous person may bring happiness, pain or both. Only a truly virtuous person is a blessing entirely to a society

So it goes, a truly utilitarian person who desires happiness as “the ultimate desire” and all else a rung or step to this. This person is capable of judging all human conduct such as actions and dispositions via the promotion of happiness, therefore incorporating it their sole criterion of morality.