Lookstwice

This Moanday morning, before getting in harness to go to my cubicle, I checked out the blogs (as usual).  I’m blown away once again at the frankness coming down from the mountains of NC. Tim on the What a Way to Go site stoked my fire this AM.  And now, as I strap on my feed-bag at my desk, I have to reflect:  We’re the Boomers, the flower-power, revolutionary, change the world, totally different generation.  The Hopi even have a prophecy about us.  WE weren’t buying the "establishment" lie, right?  Except most of us bought into it just enough to make us sick, and then had to stay with it so we wouldn’t lose our insurance. And now time is running out, and the lie is being revealed on all fronts. Collapse is here, now, one household at a time.  I’m one or two paychecks away from being on the street, and I have been living that way for years.  I’ve had folks move in with me that would have been homeless otherwise…  And are forever wounded in their souls by the betrayal of Empire.

Weren’t we going to change the world?  Are we too distracted? Is the programming too strong to break?  Or are we just too lazy?  It’s only sensible to plan ahead seven generations, but we only live for today. We need a new/old vision for how to live - one that has worked for millions of years.  How ironic! We’re going thru the same kind of cultural collapse that was perpetrated upon the natives of this land by our ancestors.  Divine justice for "Manifest Destiny" perhaps, but how can we justify not caring about the life we leave for our own children?

It’s hard words, I know. And we do care, sure. But do we care enough to change minds, one mind at a time?