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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: illyia who wrote (81502)	10/4/2006 10:42:26 AM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362347

Illyia, the anguish you speak of mostly goes unmentioned here, but you can be assured that we all feel it. It is implicit in all that transpires here. The tent isn't just about politics or about rationally divining the signs of the day. I daresay at times it is group therapy, where we are diverted by humor from the pathos of our times. We are daily attacked not only politically, but in our psyches and our souls by the condition of our country and the world. And we would only be damaged further by grinding forward in some monochromatic obsession with rational analysis. Because it isn't rational. And that's why people like Phil Rockstroh here thousandreasons.org, that I think you posted originally, Joe Bageant and even the Rude Pundit among others, are so important, because they manage to give voice to the deeper realities we live in. But even they cannot relieve us of pain, real pain that creeps into our view from time to time, particularly for me when I allow myself to sink into the personal story of one of our lost. None of us are unaffected. Even if we think we are. But it is also our nature, and our defense, to divert ourselves from that pain, to narrow our focus to the mundane, taking refuge in the prosaic, the small victories of mere interpersonal interactions, because after all, they are merely different aspects of the same dynamic. It's just too exhausting to maintain a broad vision. And that is why most of the country sleepwalks through these times. But here we have a mural, an ever-changing piece of cyber art, a group project slamming color, emotion, anger, frustration, hope, anguish, resolve, insight, brilliance and pain at an electronic wall to be witnessed by all who care to visit. We may disagree from time to time, and our rhythms may not mesh at any given moment, nor our needs, but we are all here for a reason, the same reason. And you make it what it is just as much as anyone else. This is the tent.