Pandemonium has been the rule for so long that many interested in culture have been unable to find routes to peace and security. It seems that our attention can be so easily commanded, that our elders are no longer in places of power, many among us do not have time to establish relationships with our youth and the large majority of us who are in our "working years" are exploited to the point that we just don't have time to care. Like a fish on a line, we may jerk a little from side to side, but we continue along a path controlled by some other entity. Simply turn on network news and you will be bombarded with enough mayhem and strife for a lifetime in a mere thirty minutes. The peace and security that can come over a people by turning off the television is currently unimaginable to many because the pandemonium that issues forth from these devices has misplaced our perspective into a realm that stifles change, overwhelms our ability to appropriately care and to do anything constructive about the heinous crimes perpetrated against us by those who profit from our exploitation.
I think of all my writing as a call to arms, not the kind for killing, but the kind for hugging, one another, our selves, loved ones, our neighbors and ultimately, even those who are hurting so badly inside that the only way they can feel good about themselves is by perpetrating hate crimes against us. The pandemonium that has ensued for decades is more about a deep withered soul that lies inside worldwide elites than the crimes of desperation or passion that we see on the news. Telling us a million stories about dysfunction is but a contrivance designed to make us feel better about our own difficult positions. Much like the iconic character, Homer Simpson, these events are just a stand in for the real story. We do tend to feel better about our own difficulties when there are those on our radar who are worse off than ourselves. If even a tiny fraction of the good news that is available day in and day out made it to the airwaves, we might get more of a sense of hope. The power and control freaks could not risk that. It would throw their entire rationale into question.
We are living in an age that seems to be disrupted continuously, not by chance but by design. This is the divide and conquer approach played out on a mental and psychological level. When we think that we are at odds with Mother Nature, humankind generally or our neighbors, the possibility of rebellion seems impossible. Each new report is like another nail ion the coffin of activists, because we have too often become paralyzed by fear of the next big thing. Trust is the first victim of feeling that things are out of balance. When we see ever larger floods, record breaking wildfires, massive ecological dislocation, melting ice caps, retreating glaciers, unbearable strife and people in the streets protesting for freedoms that we have come to take for granted, it can feel like the planet is tearing itself apart. Little attention is paid to the billionaires that profit from the disruption, that continue to be subsidized to do the wrong things and who benefit at the expense of the rest of the planets population. Inhabiting a world that is scary inhibits any attempt to find solutions that we can all live with oligarchs know this and when they make decisions about the course of history, they want to know that they will continue to be able to do whatever they want with impunity. that is why they must continue to keep us overstimulated, fearful and out of the decision making process.
I think of all my writing as a call to arms, not the kind for killing, but the kind for hugging, one another, our selves, loved ones, our neighbors and ultimately, even those who are hurting so badly inside that the only way they can feel good about themselves is by perpetrating hate crimes against us. The pandemonium that has ensued for decades is more about a deep withered soul that lies inside worldwide elites than the crimes of desperation or passion that we see on the news. Telling us a million stories about dysfunction is but a contrivance designed to make us feel better about our own difficult positions. Much like the iconic character, Homer Simpson, these events are just a stand in for the real story. We do tend to feel better about our own difficulties when there are those on our radar who are worse off than ourselves. If even a tiny fraction of the good news that is available day in and day out made it to the airwaves, we might get more of a sense of hope. The power and control freaks could not risk that. It would throw their entire rationale into question.
We are living in an age that seems to be disrupted continuously, not by chance but by design. This is the divide and conquer approach played out on a mental and psychological level. When we think that we are at odds with Mother Nature, humankind generally or our neighbors, the possibility of rebellion seems impossible. Each new report is like another nail ion the coffin of activists, because we have too often become paralyzed by fear of the next big thing. Trust is the first victim of feeling that things are out of balance. When we see ever larger floods, record breaking wildfires, massive ecological dislocation, melting ice caps, retreating glaciers, unbearable strife and people in the streets protesting for freedoms that we have come to take for granted, it can feel like the planet is tearing itself apart. Little attention is paid to the billionaires that profit from the disruption, that continue to be subsidized to do the wrong things and who benefit at the expense of the rest of the planets population. Inhabiting a world that is scary inhibits any attempt to find solutions that we can all live with oligarchs know this and when they make decisions about the course of history, they want to know that they will continue to be able to do whatever they want with impunity. that is why they must continue to keep us overstimulated, fearful and out of the decision making process.
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