In the deepest sense, we owe our very existence to our ancestors. With all their flaws, they gave us this chance at life. Intact cultures all exhibit some sort of ancestor worship. Under our current capitalistic system, "the banks" claim to lord over us some sort of power. Legalized thievery seems to carry the day. There are those who came up in the hippy era who are still peaceful loving people, some who carry the stories of our history, but we have become fond of giving them nothing but ridicule and innuendo designed to estrange them from us. Our political leaders, for the most part, fall flat for not only being undeserving, but antagonistic to our true desires or pressing needs. What parent can deny the allegiance we have to our children. If ever they present us with a need, we set ourselves to the task of helping them.
Many among us have a real and pressing desire to honor the next seven generations so that our bond with them can be as real, evident and as respected as possible. The vagaries of geography and the impending nationalism that can grow out of arbitrary lines drawn on maps has proven that we cannot abide these sorts of allegiances. Perhaps, as we approach singularity, our deepest debt lies with all of humanity. Yet in these times, we are forever pressed to play out the cowboy scenario, go it alone, be independent.
It would be funny if it were truly farce, but when we really begin to believe the schlock that passes for news, intellectual discussion, or political discourse, we have crossed a line into depravity from which return becomes unlikely, difficult and fraught with danger. The ad campaigns that have been funded to make up your mind for you are so deeply entrenched and subtle as to evade most of our perception. Remember the first time you saw an ad that made you want to buy something? chances are, you had seen thousands of commercials before that, they just looked like "real life", encapsulated into brief vignettes.
Finding out where the money comes from that seeks to drive our opinions and attitudes can be very enlightening, but the tangled webs of funding for certain types of speech are difficult at best. Spend some time, do your homework and you will find some very dangerous sources of funding for many of the biggest think tanks and speakers bureaus. When talking heads appear before you, remember that they are more adept at pushing an agenda than you can imagine and that their facts are presented to warp your mind around their goal, regardless of how it might affect you. Before you go lining up with anyone, get to the business of finding out where your own ideas and attitudes come from, weigh the truth between your own heart and soul, see if your own decisions and actions line up with an ethic that reveres the entire human family, then decide where to put your money, what to invest in and ultimately what sort of future we will create for future generations. Let's all get on with the business of beating a path back to wellness and an intact culture.
Many among us have a real and pressing desire to honor the next seven generations so that our bond with them can be as real, evident and as respected as possible. The vagaries of geography and the impending nationalism that can grow out of arbitrary lines drawn on maps has proven that we cannot abide these sorts of allegiances. Perhaps, as we approach singularity, our deepest debt lies with all of humanity. Yet in these times, we are forever pressed to play out the cowboy scenario, go it alone, be independent.
It would be funny if it were truly farce, but when we really begin to believe the schlock that passes for news, intellectual discussion, or political discourse, we have crossed a line into depravity from which return becomes unlikely, difficult and fraught with danger. The ad campaigns that have been funded to make up your mind for you are so deeply entrenched and subtle as to evade most of our perception. Remember the first time you saw an ad that made you want to buy something? chances are, you had seen thousands of commercials before that, they just looked like "real life", encapsulated into brief vignettes.
Finding out where the money comes from that seeks to drive our opinions and attitudes can be very enlightening, but the tangled webs of funding for certain types of speech are difficult at best. Spend some time, do your homework and you will find some very dangerous sources of funding for many of the biggest think tanks and speakers bureaus. When talking heads appear before you, remember that they are more adept at pushing an agenda than you can imagine and that their facts are presented to warp your mind around their goal, regardless of how it might affect you. Before you go lining up with anyone, get to the business of finding out where your own ideas and attitudes come from, weigh the truth between your own heart and soul, see if your own decisions and actions line up with an ethic that reveres the entire human family, then decide where to put your money, what to invest in and ultimately what sort of future we will create for future generations. Let's all get on with the business of beating a path back to wellness and an intact culture.
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