[Marsha]
Truth with humor.
[Arlo]
The Age of Passion is over. Consumer and material complacency built
atop a foundation of passivity have brought about the Age of Sheep.
It will not be until all man's (forgive the sexist language) opiating
institutions fail, when wandering on the streets with hunger in his
belly, will man's passions be reawakened. It will be too late to save
this world, but it will forge the next.
"Phaedrus wasn't sure but he seemed to detect a peculiar gentleness
here on the streets now that he didn't remember from the past. It was
an ominous gentleness found in old and corrupt cultures, the
gentleness one hears in Neapolitan street songs and in old Mexican
canciones. It comes not from an absence of violence but from an
excess of it. Live and let live. Avoid trouble. It was the gentleness
of someone who has given up fighting openly because it is too
dangerous to do so. He had the sickening feeling that something like
the fall of the Roman Empire was beginning to happen here." (LILA)
The unavoidability of this disintigration is described by Joseph
Campbell in remarks about the Jain Buddhist cosmogonic cycle. "Our
own age, the fifth of the descending series, began in 522 BC, and
will last for twenty-one thousand years. No Jaina savior will be born
during this time, and the eternal religion of the Jains will
gradually disappear. It is a period of unmitigated and gradually
intensifying evil. [People are] selfish, unjust, violent, lustful,
proud and avaricious." (The Hero with 1000 Faces)
Birth, death, rebirth. Institutions must die. Nations must die. The
old ways must die. Maps must be redrawn. From a website on the Hindu
God Shiva. "[Shiva's] first and foremost task is to destroy many
things in order to ensure the Rta or the order of the universe.
Siva's destruction is not negative. It is a positive, nourishing and
constructive destruction that builds and transforms life and energy
for the welfare of the world and the beings that inhabit it. He
destroys in order to renew and regenerate."
To revolt, one must ask, "what are we fighting for? what do we wish
to preserve? what do we wish to destroy? what do we wish to create?"
To answer these, one must know.
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