RE: Cultural Revolution Redux
Strive to remain ever vigilant against attitudes of division that come from within ourselves. I know that I fail, but the more that I succeed, the fewer divisions that I play a part in, the better the world is overall.
I think there is a growing frustration, that we work more and more for less and less. In an age of unprecedented wealth, we seem to be struggling to get by, being squeezed for every last effort, unable to get ahead of outright deprivation, by this engineered scarcity. We should be, on the foundation of the inheritance of intellectual property of the human species, living in a lavish paradise.
Not only is this not the case, but we seem worse off than ever, railroaded into a global depression by the malignance or incompetence of our leaders, and driven to the brink of the next world war. Finally we're being turned against each other so that we will eliminate each other, rather than putting the people who brought us to this state on trial, and moving on to the future we can all live in, without having to fight over crumbs.
Whew, that was a good one. Maybe I'll grow a post out of it.
Was there anything in particular that you liked, or just the tone, or something else?
"Strive to remain ever vigilant against attitudes of division that come from within ourselves. I know that I fail, but the more that I succeed, the fewer divisions that I play a part in, the better the world is overall." This fact is what has inspired much of what I post. Your awareness is made clear by how you write, not taking sides, not condemning the afraid and conflicted participants in this madness. I think exactly what you wrote here and in your response. I have felt growing urgency in the past five years, and I look around and see mostly lost and afraid people. Even in my family I have tried to communicate what can be seen, what is actually taking place, but they continue with their work. If we really saw the stakes, the risky state we're in, we would stop immediately what we're doing and live differently. Maybe that's an idealistic fantasy, but it seems so obvious to me that, "We should be, on the foundation of the inheritance of intellectual property of the human species, living in a lavish paradise." Thanks, it's good to be reminded I'm not alone. Grow it into a post!
Thank you for the encouraging comments. There are more of us than are usually apparent.
I know the growing urgency of which you speak. Sometimes it feels like the door leading to our dreams is right in front of us, and is even a bit ajar, and here we sit, the totality of humanity, with hammer cocked on a filed down trigger, and barrel pressed to our skull, about to sneeze.
I'd rather fling the door wide, grasp the dreams and forge them into reality. I know it can be done with just a change of focus. Right now I'm trying to use Steemit to better find that focus. It doesn't seem to be an end, but it is a decent means.