Give Thanks
We all know how we would like things to be different. In fact, we all want the same things to be different - more happiness, less anxiety; more peace, less war; more love, less fear - and yet, our current culture arises from a deeply felt belief that we are separate, that our lives and our destinies are not intertwined.
We have to accept that all major problems in our culture result from our personal issues enacted as the whole. That is to say, we are failing to advance our collective evolution because we have been keeping ourselves out of it. Instead, it's all about the government and the police, the fundamentalists and the assholes, the marches and elections. We are so worried about doing something else that we forget to ask why it's happening in the first place. It's happening because of you. It's happening because of us. It happening because of what we believe.
While we still carry on, acting as if someone is going to fix our problems for us - the earth will die. The dwindling semblance of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," will finally be legally reversed as the current economic power trend continues. While we continue to believe that we have to use the system in order to fix the system, the world as we know it will end in cement totalitarian madness.
We must StandUp and StandTall.
