Well said, Edg. Especially amongst all this recent "It's all perfect as it is" crap.
A few comments: --- In [email protected], Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just so, I wonder where my cut-off-point will be on this article's > type of thinking for me. I certainly cannot gainsay any paranoia > at this point. One of my spiritual teachers used to say that paranoia was just another word for self importance, *especially* the type of paranoia that manifests itself as believing that the world is gonna end during their lifetime. > The strange part in all this is that I'm thinking, "Thank God for > the National Rifle Association." 90 million guns indeed. Suddenly, > Charlton Heston's blurb about only losing his gun when it is "pried > from my cold dead hands," gives me a wondrous sense of having a > "people's army" that could arise if a dictatorship such as we have > right now begins to really exercise its muscles and starts pushing > people around bigtime. . . . You should know more NRA types. I do, and I'm under- whelmed. Their relationship to their guns is the same as a testosterone-filled teenage boy's to the gearshift knob on his car -- both have mistaken the things they cling to for security for their penises. They like to *talk* a big "If they come for me and mine I've got my guns to keep them away" spiel, but talk is talk, and cheaper than ever. They almost never really *do* anything, and they won't if Bushco cancels the elections. NO ONE will do anything. There will be a lot of talk from people who think talk IS "doing something," but that's all it will be. I'm sorry to sound so jaded, but IMO Americans as a people just don't have what it takes any more to launch a revolution. They don't even have what it takes to stage a general strike and bring everything that moves in the nation to a complete halt. And the NRA types claim that they're gonna pick up *guns* and fight back? Masturbation fantasies, pure and simple. > We think we're all so modern, but emotionally, we're all about as > feral as the folks who lopped off the heads of royalty in the French > Revolution. What would it take for the 90 million guns to be loaded > and every politician targeted? In my opinion, in America? Mass starvation. They'd find a way to live with everything else. > What's six million Jews > killed compared to 1.2 billion folks being made to drink from > ditches and watch their kids die at a 10,000 per day rate? Do > the math -- every two years we kill six million more, mostly > children, by keeping simple hygiene from them. > > This is the Holocaust of our generation. Well said, and about time more people said it. > And today, I'll eat like a king, have a shower, be entertained up > the yin and out the yang, pour carbon into the air, and deny my > part in all of the evil. I'll look into my pantry and sigh that > I have nothing to eat, look into my closet and sigh that I have > nothing to wear, look at my garage and sigh that I can't fit any > more stuff into it. > > I need to look into my heart, right? I need to look as deeply and > as long as I can until I get whatever I need to get to become a part > of the solution. How I long for the days when the Maharishi Effect > was a truth to me. Now, all I can see is that I'm on top of the > food chain and those looking at me from below cannot tell much > difference between me and Bush. > > And they're right. Amen. About me, too, even though I don't live there. Where I live people are just as responsible for our new, improved holocausts. The only difference I can see is that the French are still willing to stage a general strike and force their government to change if they that government does something that really pisses them off. And they'll do this even if the strike causes them to miss a few paychecks. I have to agree *strongly* with new.morning in his latest raps that the kinda language we're hearing here on FFL lately reeks of status quo and "I've got mine and that's all that matters" more than it does enlightenment. Give me a Gandhi any day over a Yogananda, a Nelson Mandela over a Ramakrishna, change over stasis. "Everything is perfect just as it is" is true only from one limited POV and state of consciousness and only FOR the person who is IN that state of conscious- ness. If that's enough for some people, I feel sorry for them. The world is full of talkers, with only a few doers. And from my point of view -- and history's -- few of the people who spout that line and smile blissfully have ever done diddleysquat for anyone except them- selves. They sat in ashrams and let the poor starve and said over and over, "Everything is perfect as it is." Yeah, right. Give me a doer over a talker any day...
