I have set for myself a no "news" challenge. I'm tuning out that noise. Instead, I will redouble my efforts to bring more comprehensive material on the revolution which will never be televised. See, the same marginal fraction of possibility that exists of getting rich by playing the lottery, meeting your demise at the hands of "terrorists", or expecting the oligarchs to relinquish one red cent over our care and feeding, is nearly as improbable as being hit by an incoming asteroid. There are voices however, and they are extremely well-funded, that want us to hide in fear away from our neighbors at all costs. We live in a situation where the uberwealthy class has cost the rest of us dearly, and they know it, so keeping us ill-informed is their primary purpose.
Take the coal region, where I used to live. Since the peak of big coal, thousands of jobs have flown the coop. The chickens that did come home to roost were the pools of poisoned water, the deforestation and desertification of vast swaths of land, the poisoned ground water and breach holes which will forever pose a fall hazard. Heck, the mountain behind one of my boyhood homes is the one that had the vein of coal which put Centralia, PA on the map, then rubbed it out. see, the local dump, which was burned off from time to time was right over a spot where the coal vein underground came very close to the surface. Once ignited by the burning trash, it kept burning right under the town, eventually requiring the entire population to move away. Now, you stand upon the ash heap that used to be the town and see, like phoenix rising, wind spinners, capitalizing on the breeze.
Out of destruction, we can have rebirth, but it requires creativity, sustained action and forming groups of people who can bring to use as many resources as possible to resolve problems that individuals singly would not have a chance of doing.
Case in point, this week, I found a set of fair to good condition truck tires, which I know someone will be able to use, I just have to keep looking for someone who needs them and I could save them hundreds of dollars. It is just a matter of finding those opportunities. When we have problems brought to us as the result of externalities or fallout from the uberwealthy, or their destruction, there are always things we can do to restore or make our environment, and consequently our lives, better, we may just have to look more critically at the difference between needs and wants, or re-define what is worth keeping in our communities. I recently drove through the coal region and saw the proliferation of drug addiction treatment centers and I can assure you that the main reason that drug addiction is such a plague there is because the young people see that there is so little of value, so little to do and so few prospects for them that they are seeking a medicated way out. In our day, we used alcohol to forget that we were poor, unemployed and that our only chance was to flee, or go into debt to get an education with the ultimate goal of getting out of the coal region.
The more time we spend dosed with the adrenaline than is helpful and in myself, I am diagnosing my own affliction as: Time Spent Watching "News". (TSWN) When a person has, repeatedly throughout the day, a fight or flight response, but can neither flee or fight, I think it is toxic. At least the metabolites of all that adrenaline are) This moon, I will attempt to stop all tee vee, radio and news discussion. The unadulterated pap that we are forced to consume as news-a-hol-ics (stress the ick) compassionate friends urge me to look at good news sites, but I'm wanting less news so that I can make more connections with real people and find out about their hopes, dreams and ideas. Getting to know the neighbors is far better than letting them become strangers.
Working the Summer Festival Season as a stagehand helps somewhat to keep the 24-hour "news" cycle at bay. When you are routinely working ten or more hours away from media at a time, taking the next step seems only logical. I am going to look to what guides me and the billions of other people making small victories possible. We the People now includes the world and no matter what some in government might try to feed us, we are collectively calling BULLSHIT!. with the nations' fists held high, we are standing as one against the tyranny of the oppression. The wealthiest among us have crashed the entire economy, educational system, transportation sector, energy, etc. How many shards will we and our environment be reduced to before the carnage is required to stop?
Local groups have sponsored many educational campaigns around a host of issues, that won't be on the map of any news teams, those selfless efforts do not reflect the dog eat dog world they want you to think you live in. I saw on the "news" the other night, a woman was walking something like fifty miles to raise funds for her mom, who needed an operation. (heart-wrenching stuff I know.) There have also been concerned citizens educating people along the proposed Enbridge pipeline expansion route, from Superior to the Illinois line. Not a word on the "media". The deception that is woven for our eyes and ears daily by the endless string of tragedy and mayhem assembled in the name of "news" is tragic. If only we would realize that multiplying the good has a much more profound effect on humanity. I went door-to-door for nearly a decade, speaking to hundreds of thousands of people, learning about their ideas regarding protection of the environment and I can truly say that the numbers of people who want good things to happen dwarfs the number who are praying for Armageddon.
When I looked into the true base of extremist religions, from around the globe, from Radical Islam to Radical Evangelist, Radical Baptist, Radical Jehova's Witness and other supremacist idealogies, is that they literally use the old "master of the house", theory as justification for subjugate over half the population. Masculinity is taking responsibility for considering the good of all, not just expediences. In my campaign for Congress, representing Northeast Wisconsin, I put honesty, integrity and Principles foremost in the campaign. I will work diligently for the things I campaign on, resolve to tell the truth in all things, never vote for the lesser of two evils and to lead the Congress Repair Team. The cream has been rising for decades, in local not-for-profits, clubs and associations. People bitten by the bug of public service are winning the day in the age of corporate brutalism. These are the peace warriors we need to be helping. I have chosen to walk the talk and concentrate on the good things going on locally. By not wasting time getting upset by reports of heinousness from around the globe, I'm redoubling my efforts to make change happen, wherever I am planted.
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Take the coal region, where I used to live. Since the peak of big coal, thousands of jobs have flown the coop. The chickens that did come home to roost were the pools of poisoned water, the deforestation and desertification of vast swaths of land, the poisoned ground water and breach holes which will forever pose a fall hazard. Heck, the mountain behind one of my boyhood homes is the one that had the vein of coal which put Centralia, PA on the map, then rubbed it out. see, the local dump, which was burned off from time to time was right over a spot where the coal vein underground came very close to the surface. Once ignited by the burning trash, it kept burning right under the town, eventually requiring the entire population to move away. Now, you stand upon the ash heap that used to be the town and see, like phoenix rising, wind spinners, capitalizing on the breeze.
Out of destruction, we can have rebirth, but it requires creativity, sustained action and forming groups of people who can bring to use as many resources as possible to resolve problems that individuals singly would not have a chance of doing.
Case in point, this week, I found a set of fair to good condition truck tires, which I know someone will be able to use, I just have to keep looking for someone who needs them and I could save them hundreds of dollars. It is just a matter of finding those opportunities. When we have problems brought to us as the result of externalities or fallout from the uberwealthy, or their destruction, there are always things we can do to restore or make our environment, and consequently our lives, better, we may just have to look more critically at the difference between needs and wants, or re-define what is worth keeping in our communities. I recently drove through the coal region and saw the proliferation of drug addiction treatment centers and I can assure you that the main reason that drug addiction is such a plague there is because the young people see that there is so little of value, so little to do and so few prospects for them that they are seeking a medicated way out. In our day, we used alcohol to forget that we were poor, unemployed and that our only chance was to flee, or go into debt to get an education with the ultimate goal of getting out of the coal region.
The more time we spend dosed with the adrenaline than is helpful and in myself, I am diagnosing my own affliction as: Time Spent Watching "News". (TSWN) When a person has, repeatedly throughout the day, a fight or flight response, but can neither flee or fight, I think it is toxic. At least the metabolites of all that adrenaline are) This moon, I will attempt to stop all tee vee, radio and news discussion. The unadulterated pap that we are forced to consume as news-a-hol-ics (stress the ick) compassionate friends urge me to look at good news sites, but I'm wanting less news so that I can make more connections with real people and find out about their hopes, dreams and ideas. Getting to know the neighbors is far better than letting them become strangers.
Working the Summer Festival Season as a stagehand helps somewhat to keep the 24-hour "news" cycle at bay. When you are routinely working ten or more hours away from media at a time, taking the next step seems only logical. I am going to look to what guides me and the billions of other people making small victories possible. We the People now includes the world and no matter what some in government might try to feed us, we are collectively calling BULLSHIT!. with the nations' fists held high, we are standing as one against the tyranny of the oppression. The wealthiest among us have crashed the entire economy, educational system, transportation sector, energy, etc. How many shards will we and our environment be reduced to before the carnage is required to stop?
Local groups have sponsored many educational campaigns around a host of issues, that won't be on the map of any news teams, those selfless efforts do not reflect the dog eat dog world they want you to think you live in. I saw on the "news" the other night, a woman was walking something like fifty miles to raise funds for her mom, who needed an operation. (heart-wrenching stuff I know.) There have also been concerned citizens educating people along the proposed Enbridge pipeline expansion route, from Superior to the Illinois line. Not a word on the "media". The deception that is woven for our eyes and ears daily by the endless string of tragedy and mayhem assembled in the name of "news" is tragic. If only we would realize that multiplying the good has a much more profound effect on humanity. I went door-to-door for nearly a decade, speaking to hundreds of thousands of people, learning about their ideas regarding protection of the environment and I can truly say that the numbers of people who want good things to happen dwarfs the number who are praying for Armageddon.
When I looked into the true base of extremist religions, from around the globe, from Radical Islam to Radical Evangelist, Radical Baptist, Radical Jehova's Witness and other supremacist idealogies, is that they literally use the old "master of the house", theory as justification for subjugate over half the population. Masculinity is taking responsibility for considering the good of all, not just expediences. In my campaign for Congress, representing Northeast Wisconsin, I put honesty, integrity and Principles foremost in the campaign. I will work diligently for the things I campaign on, resolve to tell the truth in all things, never vote for the lesser of two evils and to lead the Congress Repair Team. The cream has been rising for decades, in local not-for-profits, clubs and associations. People bitten by the bug of public service are winning the day in the age of corporate brutalism. These are the peace warriors we need to be helping. I have chosen to walk the talk and concentrate on the good things going on locally. By not wasting time getting upset by reports of heinousness from around the globe, I'm redoubling my efforts to make change happen, wherever I am planted.
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