I just love what Thomas Friedman wrote this morning in the NY Times (Washington vs The Merciless): "We're basically saying to the market and Mother Nature: "Bring it on. We're going to be dumb as we wanna be and put off these big decisions, until 2013, after the next presidential election, because our two political parties would rather focus on winning the next election and blaming the other guy than making hard choices.""
The entire article is worth reading and I so admire Mr. Friedman his insight and ability to hit the nail on the head. Week after week he writes charge-filled articles yet things in America seem to go on and on in a merry, almost drunken stupor of denial.
Most recently I was sent the youtube movies Zeitgeist: Moving Forward and Zeitgeist Addendum, both very much worth watching. I couldn't agree with everything, and found myself hesitant to embrace a life so technical and void of sensuality as the Venus Project projects, however many of the issues that Peter Joseph so brilliantly portrays really struck resonance of truth for me. There's a scene when a scientist comments that he knows that his grandchildren, when fully grown, will look back in wonder that we, in this urgent time, did so little.
If we listen and follow our heart -- easier said then done, for at first when we try to listen it is the chaos that comes loudest; the various pulls for attention -- there may just pop up a quiet, gentle voice or a sense of knowing that will help inspire you NOW towards the cause of "concscious" enlightenment in this very special time.
There is something that each of us can do and must do, as we absolutely do not "inherit this earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
To conclude, I'd like to refer to the opening passage in the brilliant movie "American Beauty" when Lester says: "Yesterday I realized that there was this entire life behind things - this incredibly Benevolent Force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid, ever... "
The powers that be -- as Peter Joseph refers to as the Corporatrats (or something like that) --
would like us to muddle on in our fears and conviction that there is nothing that each one of us can do. That is just hogwash! Wake yourself up, dust yourself off, take a break from the internet (after you've read this!!) have a long walk in some nearby woods (if you are lucky enough to have some woods nearby) and listen!! You will find that there is something very valuable and useful that you can do at this moment, something more to help the planet and yourself than just recycling!
