14-11-2009, 12:16 PM
I don't know whether to scream or cry. This is a snapshot in maternacosm of what we have come to. Lady Madonna ....Years ago, the military handed out "cardboard daddies". Today, the war machine forces separation at a time when... well, what's the use? This is so basic a human issue that it does not need explanation.
The world has gone mad.
Superbly-realistic war videos are smashing sales records; people are spending hundreds of millions to buy one.
We will soon have a show trial in which we parade at least one defendant who has confessed after being waterboarded an average of six times a day for a month.
Homo sapiens has become homo nex cultus.
Joanna Macy pens an article on the suppression of despair and the numbing of the psyche: http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1386/1/
"Acknowledging despair, on the other hand, involves nothing more mysterious than telling the truth about what we see and know and feel is happening to our world. When corporate-controlled media keep the public in the dark, and power-holders manipulate events to create a climate of fear and obedience, truth-telling is like oxygen. It enlivens and returns us to health and vigor....
When we open our eyes to what is happening, even when it breaks our hearts, we discover our true size; for our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe. We discover how speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity. That solidarity, with our neighbors and all that lives, is all the more real for the uncertainty we face."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD7peD8Tk2o
Herbie Hancock (with Frierich Gulda) (“All Blues”, 9:44)
The world has gone mad.
Superbly-realistic war videos are smashing sales records; people are spending hundreds of millions to buy one.
We will soon have a show trial in which we parade at least one defendant who has confessed after being waterboarded an average of six times a day for a month.
Homo sapiens has become homo nex cultus.
Joanna Macy pens an article on the suppression of despair and the numbing of the psyche: http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/1386/1/
"Acknowledging despair, on the other hand, involves nothing more mysterious than telling the truth about what we see and know and feel is happening to our world. When corporate-controlled media keep the public in the dark, and power-holders manipulate events to create a climate of fear and obedience, truth-telling is like oxygen. It enlivens and returns us to health and vigor....
When we open our eyes to what is happening, even when it breaks our hearts, we discover our true size; for our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe. We discover how speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity. That solidarity, with our neighbors and all that lives, is all the more real for the uncertainty we face."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD7peD8Tk2o
Herbie Hancock (with Frierich Gulda) (“All Blues”, 9:44)
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"