AMERICA IS GOING MAD

AMERICA IS GOING MAD

I hate America so much right now, really loved what Maureen Dowd wrote in the NY times op-ed column August 21, about how dysfunctional the US is at the moment:

“…Obama is the head of the dysfunctional family of America — a rational man running a most irrational nation, a high-minded man in a low-minded age. The country is having some weird mass nervous breakdown, with the right spreading fear and disinformation that is amplified by the poisonous echo chamber that is the modern media environment…"

I so wish I could bundle up the ones who are suffering now and show them the many "worlds" I discovered working this summer. There are some amazing communities around now, people living alternatively, outside the money-capitalistic system. One of the places I worked at this summer (teaching Alexander at tango camps) was called Ponderosa. Located in former East Germany near the Polish border – a very unlikely place to say the least and I was so surprised by the amount of Americans living there!!

Many Americans are so afraid of the way we live in Europe, as if it is"socialism" or communism... and really it is just living without the deadly fear, that I so remember when I lived in the US.

I know these words of mine are mostly empty and cannot offer real help, in this ever-so-confusing time. I just need to let you know that there are many people trying now to create another way and it gave me enormous courage this summer.