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Signs of the Times.... Here's a man with an well wordsmithed insight on the affairs of these daze. http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2009/02/presidents-day.html And here's a man tracking things quite well... http://trendsresearch.com/journal.html And an slightly older version of trend reader - here’s a chapter from the book of Enoch:
The biblical quote is, of course right on... simply because human nature never changes. Hence, any old story carries forward. You could scribble any old average common scenario happening to any common person now, couch it in cryptic 'ancient' slang, and it would be a prophetic epic if found under a rock a few millennia from now. However, the sounds and expressions unique and new in this moment, to never be heard again outside of this moment are the ones to keep on the lookout for. And where are they coming from I ask. I want your links to them! Otherwise it is all just ... TV or some other form of regurgitated human patterning recounted to the masses. I, personally, have yet to find an invitation beyond a resolved interest to survive with your wits intact with no one murdered in cold blood. In other words, there really isn't much more than 'decent survival' out there to draw folks into a new age... an age of of newness in being. Survival?... is that all there is to show for all the decent living under the bridge? And please, I know the message wrt to 'you are born to die to go to a better place' bs. That one has definitely died on the vine of my thinking. We certainly will see the 'salt of the earth' types successfully demonstrating self-sustainable practices ...on themselves... but co-operative entrenched bio-regional local economic trading zones with resiliency, in America? Not likely... unless human nature evolves. We get the news that World Economy is a fallacy bound to fail... but what is the real direction that can set the path firm and true in the Earth for the next round of pioneering souls? And since when does a 'financial crisis' contribute to evolutionary pressure? Yep, my money is on 'more of the same'. And for which, a bible is as good as anything to see what is going on now. It won't take too much intelligence to regurgitate old news and call it informative. 1000's of idiots do it daily. It will take a lot more than this to change the genetics of humanity. But will it take that much to get us on the right track...? enough pressure on our pattern to change the genetics...? or is it going to be a good helping of 'discomfort' or 'hard times' that's going to do it? When I look around and survey the misery in the world the average, innocent American consumers create in the world, it is obvious the cause and effect connection has been completely and perfectly obfuscated. We've got religion, drugs and nutrition to mask any semblance of intelligence, TV to falsify the views, and politicians to tell us otherwise. There isn't enough connection between the cause of the problem and those dying from the problem. As long as that distance remains, more of the same. So what will it be? more of the same, OR a whole new thrust in consciousness? For me, I kind of know what it takes to get a new thrust in consciousness. And it isn't pain and suffering that does it. It's love and caring given a chance to bob to the surface of my soul. So why do so many insist on terrifying each other with the bad news of human nature running rampant? Why do I all too often point at what's not working to get friends to look at what is working?... is what is working not attractive enough? Or do I simply not have anything more attractive than what TV has to offer.
The long version of "Why the Bailout?" You have two cows. John Paulson borrows one cow so he can sell it for $100. He gives you $10 as collateral. You buy your neighbors cow for $100, which you finance by taking out a $90 loan from the bank and use John's $10 to make up the rest. You brag to everyone about your financial health. You have assets--two cows you own, plus one Paulson owes you--worth $300, and liabilities of just $100. A third of the country goes vegetarian. You thought your two cows were worth $200 and now they are worth $140. You express confidence in your financial health. Your assets are now worth only $200--your two cows plus the one John owes you--but your liabilities are still only $100. If necessary, you could sell the assets at this distressed price and pay off all your loans. You hold onto your cows because you are sure the market is "dislocated." Some day someone will want to eat beef again. The rest of the country goes vegetarian. Your two cows are now worth $2 each to guys who want to make dog food. John Paulson buys a cow in the market for $2 and he gives it to you as repayment of the loan. You now have three cows worth six bucks. John wants his $10 back. The bank calls. It wants its $90 back. You call the Federal Reserve and ask for a bailout. This just in.... it's the best explanation of how our financial collapse happened...http://ping.fm/XfcYD
What, no Wheels? The Emperors of Japan found a interesting way to concentrated power AND a way to even the playing field. Wonder how they did it? They ritualized a decentralized and localized warrior class (Samurai), then empowered them with ‘certain’ rights of stewardship and control of the ‘Emperors’ land. Oh… and their primary method of keeping everyone from over-empowering themselves over others - they made possession of wheeled carts used for locomotion punishable by death. Yessirree, until 1860, if a Samurai caught you with a wheel, it was an instant trial, judgment and sentence - and off went your head! The interesting thing… it somehow made sense… not the killing, but the scaling of human power to a strictly human level formally enshrined in ritual practice at the core of their society. Instead of nature toppling humanly contrived over-empowerment, strictly trained masters of body, mind and emotion did it on behalf of the Emperor’s world. That ‘worked’ in the sense that their little island empire was populated by only those who could effectively manage under their own power and the power of a few creatures they managed to domesticate. And that scale of self imposed restriction on allowable human power led to centuries of incredibly intelligent mastering of what was at hand in the landscape of the mind and nature itself. Too bad we changed their pattern for them. Within just two generations of white euros hanging around, we sold them on the wheel and they had lashed out with a vengeance… and now we have the bomb. Perhaps we can imagine a world of all folk living and working at such a scaled down level of authority in the land… sounds pretty idyllic and not likely. But if truth be told, a pattern of ultimate control and reason must be alive and well in the population. Their is no real way around that. We all ‘learn’ harmony as a solution to our maturation out of the necessarily blind cycle of birth and death. Until we are irresistibly attracted to a perfectly oriented example of rightful livelihood that comes not from the backs of others kept deliberately from the truth - then we are doomed to more and more benign forms of instituted ignorance. Chuck Burr, author of Culturequake offers an end view, but what will be the calling card that draws us that way… stuff, rules, reasoning, emotion… ? The fact is that as currently set up, very few on the planet are capable of exercising personal vision sufficient to manage any kind of social sea-change in their region, let alone between their ears. But until some do, it’s the tower of babel and the blind leading the blind - over and over and over again. Without living examples of autonomous folk living in universal harmony, we will all swirl around endlessly following lost followers. That’s the human condition. As long as we are not leading the way, we follow and wonder where we are going. And from where do you think a perfect, irresistible example of right livelihood is likely to emerge? The Pied Piper of this age must emerge in the personal experience of us all… That’s the query we need to see and answer to in the mirror every morning. But don’t take that blank morning look as anything but your true position. The fact is, until we, ourselves, are actively engaged in revealing the potential gradient to excellence in all things that surround and sustain us, we will continue to see little more than that collective ‘blank look’ in the mirror. That’s more or less where we are now… at the ‘blank look’ stage. We need an ignition source to get off our ass and onto the job of being the true, complete human beings that destiny continually promises. Got a light?
Just saw 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons' - well done fantasy for sure. 3 hours went by in a moment and still with me. Nice. just dealing with the response to my ping.fm bombing runs of late... had know idea there were so many out there who can hook up. Hey, not enough for ya? Check out the Archives
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