This little experiment in Democracy. What causes me to be so sentimental as to now seek out Red, White and Blue Tie Dye shirts? Why do I feel the Progressive Left is as lost as the Conservative Right? The tug of war between left and right is keeping us all from finding our true power and peace as a country, it blinds us to our loss of freedoms.
Let me try to explain.
Any place you start, anywhere a dart tossed while blindfolded at the map of issues has a landing that deserves a deep discussion. From where we are to where we might be should be an all inclusive, fear excluded zone of discussion.
Are there any fundamentals that we can at least begin to tune ourselves to the same tone? Are there any issues that we can all agree transcend our perceived polarized talking points?
Number one I am starting with is it not only is it OK to give a damn, It is imperative
to give a damn. A cynical disenchantment with all humanity pervades our
existence. Perhaps that cynicism is justified as we see so much of life directed by forces way out of our control. Fundamentally we might ask the big metaphysical question of 'what is ever in our control' and how much of Life do we simply need to surrender to some greater flow that we are caught up with whether it might be called, Nature, Karma, God or It is What It Is.
I suggest that is probably a good point for our spiritual and mental health for all of us are part of this finite experience of life from birth to death. From the helpless crying Baby to someone who stands as an adult as best we can, to lend a hand, to make a difference, to try to stand … and to watch it all as we age flow on and to realize it flows on with out us. Whether we stand for anything, whether we are capable of moving this world n any way in the direction that we might yearn, because we beget children, because we have inherited something, because as out of control as it may seem to be we must impart … as our parents and their parents before them and back generations we want to see our children have a good life.
I repeat, We want our children to have a good life. We give a damn because of the Life that we have brought into the Earth and because of our Love for that life.
Our anger and blame for historic destruction in the past or of the present serves little good if we do not live constructively in the present. If our anger is because of injustice then it behooves us to stand for justice in the present. If we wish to create a Just society it demands that we act justly.
Number 1) … you/we/I have no real choice but to give a damn.
Number 2) … our actions do matter and do effect the world.
Number 3) … The Means of our actions creates the Ends.
Number 4) … Life on Earth is part of one Biological Event.
We are part of the One.
Number 5) … Life is subject to influence. From the tiniest species to
Elephants and Whales and to we the Humans.
Number 6) … Life is Learning.
Number 7) … Material Success can not sustain itself without
the Thriving of All Life on Earth.
Number 8) … We can Generation after Generation
make the world a better place.
Number 9) … The Balance of too much Government or too Little is
The fundamental issue of Left and Right.
Number 10) …. The People Have the Power (Left and Right)
to find the Center.
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