poet-
i also thought kingsolver did a wonderful job of expressing
her perspective. I DO happen to agree with it, except for
this sentence:
I fight that, I fight it as if I'm drowning.
as bob dylan once said, "i don't fight gravity."
the state of duality (opposing thought and forces) is as
natural as gravity. i'm in the camp of thinkers who agree
with kingsolver's goals. my words and daily energies are
pointed in the same direction. but it's just my chosen
(or destined?) life path, not a desperate upstream struggle.
no fight...
for me, these times are not especially painful, nor do
they evoke great personal fear, it is a natural
storm blowing across my path. i saw this coming in the
first 100 days of the current administration. i saw the
tools the president stocked in his cabinet(s). when all
your tools are hammers... all your problems begin to look
like nails and conversely, when all your problems look
like nails, hammers are the first tools you reach for.
the current president is not as evolved as is the leading
edge of civilization. his worldview is that of earlier
cold war days. he missed the opportunity to participate in,
and see the ultimate global evolutionary significance of
the new information age. he does not have the vision to
see the tremendous opportunity and benefit to our country
and to its individual citizens, that a global community
will bring. the age of international global community, a
global economy and global interdependence are not strong
guiding concepts for him.
it was easy to predict that the first incident of criminal
violence perpetrated by other than a US citizen during his
tenure would be seen as an "act of war". a handful of
terrorists could predict the reaction as easily as i. to
them it was a powerful opportunity to have their status
raised from crazed individual criminals unsupported by any
recognized government on the planet, a la ted kazinski
or timothy mcveigh, to an internationally recognized
organization of religious believers in a holy war against
whom they perceive as "the great, evil, satanic,
tecnologically advanced but morally bankrupt nations of
the world". <congratulates his elf for the biggest run-on
sentence of his writing life>
having seen this coming, i was not unprepared. my hatches
are battened, my course is set for the quickest, safest
heading until it passes... no fighting into the teeth of
the wind, just a hell of a ride for a while until i can
set the new course for the ultimate destination.
though i may appear to be heading away from my destination,
it is a temporary detour. i don't curse the storm, i bless
it because experience tells me it will bring serendipitous
gifts that are not readily obvious. but rest assured...
i have NOT forgotten where i am going.
namaste
-polvie the sailor man adrift in the sea of life.
aaaah life... it's my favorite thang. |
