September 28, 2018
Blue and Red have become so mad at eachother. So So mad. And for the worst of reasons. There are, large differences between the two and growing extremes at either end. Yet, there seems to have be a total lack of unity. Discourse and comment hate and exchange as if we are two rival nations, not one in the same.
As above, so below. Polarity since the beginning. A system that decided two sides was the best bet, yields very clear discussion between two sides to hack away at issues, but the mash up between opposing forces reminds on of the spiritual feeling you get in Big Sur when you see the clash between Ocean and Land in the most epic of ways.
Red and Blue hate eachother. The noblest of each side will say different, and it’s true to a degree. But under habit control by the media and technology and our uber attachment to staying up to speed on the most current news, a fiery battle rages that is most certainly inflamed beyond necessity, void of truth in some ways, and separates a country more that it unites it.
The most alarming of observations from my perspective is that those that voted for our recent President, which are the minority of the country to be certain, are so convinced that the man is their man and is working for him, when in reality, we know that to be false. And they stick by him even as he screws them over. But even bigger than that blind devotion, is the fact that we bicker and bicker between two sides, across the aisle. In the streets and on comment boards and social feeds. Smoke and mirrors gone haywire into disarray. Dissonance.
The enemy is not our fellow citizens. The enemy is rather multi-fold. It is 1) Ourselves Collectively 2) The Uber Wealthy, and 3) Ourselves individually.
Let’s dive.
1) As a nation inherently rooted to the need that we must invest and save in general, and especially for retirement, we often leave our money matters up to our money managers. Or we just do what is best financially for our own pocket. Folks can claim they do consider what the ethical factors of a corporations actions are in determining whether or not to invest, but if that were true, we’d have a more utopic, and less dystopia like world today, especially in regards to the earth and the wealth gap. We cling to security out of fear. And in the masses, that goes against our interests. Our money managers follow the bigger funds, and the bigger funds control the boards of companies, who do whatever they must to no matter what to bring a return to their share-holders (especially those bigger share-holders), and will lobby into oblivion over a fixed congress to do so. (SEE “How the USA died in 1911").
I look at it as a snake eating itself. So hell bent on survival, it knows not what it does. But we can’t blame the greater public. Our spiritual deficit collectively is far greater than our financial deficit as a country. We are lightyears beyond where we should be and we have forgotten the rule of the upward spiral’s exponential nature.
We have collectively followed the leader. And it turns out, the leaders actually make decisions not for you, but for themselves. The folks down below turn a tiny enough profit to keep them happy, while the greed atop the very stressed mountain reigns supreme, without concern for the whole, or the Earth.
This all results in a divided nation where some are so desperate, that they will believe the first man that talks their talk and walks their walk (even if in reality they don’t), and will wave their banners until the next election. All the while, their lives have stayed the same. They’re used to this and they like rooting for sports, watching the circus, drinking their beer, and eating their bread and meat. They’re oddly happy during a life in which they are in actuality, so very very upset.
2) The Uber rich. This one is more brief in its explanation. The pay to those at the top is far too much, the amount they keep is far too much, they amount they give is far too little, and the amount they are able to avoid taxes is far too mysterious and filled with loopholes. The exponential power of money unregulated, within a corrupt world, knows no morals, no bounds.
3) Ourselves individually. The easiest way to put this, is that people yearn for change and opportunity, are more likely to eat the sugar and the beer and the meat, than they are to eat the salad. Even if the salad costs more, it would enable their minds and bodies to perform better, and give them more energy. Slow them down it wouldn’t. But the comfort of foods, and our attachment to our temporary sense fixes and vices, in the little momentary bits of life called habits that build up into lifestyles and values, are the missed opportunities that could completely change our fortune. But culture acts as a whole, and when your friends are eating the yummy stuff, and most restaurants only offer the yummy stuff, even though it’s not the best for you, folks eat it. Culture is sticky. And unfortunately, our cultures don’t promote self care, self love, and the knowledge therein to turn habits into positive lifestyles that can springboard an otherwise happy person, into a world of opportunity.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. And while we are grateful, many of the traditions and much of the culture that we inherit, is not only antiquated and too clung to, but a lot of it as we learn can be substituted for better things that we discover (which they enabled us to do and would be happy that we embraced). We have been serving gasoline, cow, pig, couch potato television, and soda for decades. Unfortunately the rise of alternative energies, yummy meat alternatives (that taste just as good and are much much better for the world), meditation and exercise, and low sugar healthy beverages, has been painfully slow.
We are far too fixed in our ways collectively, and this leads to a very tough world for the individual to eek themselves out of patterns and habits that have not only been taught to them since birth, but are surrounding them in all of their days.
The motion into a better habit-filled world, I hope can increase.
We don’t need to fight across the aisle. We need to fight our negative cultures. We need to fight the ruling and uber rich class and their paid cronies, and we need to fight our own bad habits.
Those are our enemies. Not our fellow countrymen. We’re all part of this petri dish, and we rely on each other’s good habits just the same as we must rely on our own.
& Votes DO matter. Period.
BB.
