Now- on the surface, this is great. I think, "Wonderful! I'll just put in all this inspirational stuff! Only positive stuff allowed!! No negative stuff!! HAH, I'm BRILLIANT!"
It almost makes me sad.
These are things that I feel
can be helpful to think about. IF people actually stop and think.
But these images that initially have meaning, get altered by our
continual use and abuse of them which therefore turns them into... almost into something
that is as repulsive as a "rotten melon that nobody wanted sitting in the back of the market" (Pinky, from
Animaniacs).
Wait- here's a story.
Apparently it was Carl Jung's favorite, which is totally appropriate for this blog-
"The
water of life, wishing to make itself known on the face of the earth,
bubbled up in an artesian well and flowed without effort or limit.
People came to drink of the magic water and were nourished by it, since
it was so clean and pure and invigorating. But humankind was not content
to leave things in this Edenic state. Gradually they began to fence the
well, charge admission, claim ownership of the property around it, make
elaborate laws as to who could come to the well, put locks on the
gates. Soon the well was the property of the powerful and the elite. The
water was angry and offended; it stopped flowing and began to bubble up
in another place. The people who owned the property around the first
well were so engrossed in their power systems and ownership that they
did not notice that the water had vanished. They continued selling the
nonexistent water, and few people noticed that the true power was gone.
But some dissatisfied people searched with great courage and found the
new artesian well. Soon that well was under control of the property
owners, and the same fate overtook it. The spring itself to yet another
place- and this has been going on throughout recorded history."
This
story relates specifically to dogmatic religion and the search people
go on to seek meaningful and fulfilling spirituality.
But isn't that the way things always pan out?
Take
governmental structuring for instance (and granted there will be plenty
of people who disagree with me) but both communism and democracy end up with the rich getting richer and "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Thank you Lord Acton).
And I do believe it's true, that absolute power corrupts those who
wield it.
I see it almost every day, on a smaller scale. See the faces
and hear stories of instances in which the control and responsibility of
the life of a human being (parenthood) was manipulated, abused and
neglected for personal gain, satisfaction or pleasure.
Why
should we assume that the human beings who wield wealth and power over
us are incapable of falling victim to the same corruption that all human
beings would, if not for a thin abstract notion of integrity and an
understanding of what it really means to hold power over others?
It's human nature. Period.
Given certain circumstances- these are the flaws of human kind and they will render themselves problematic in one form or another.
AND given the cyclical nature of everything on this earth, it shall balance itself out again, in one form or another.
Marie Antoinette's rolling head can testify to that.
At least in the governmental arena.
And I'm not sure if I'd like to be around for the crumbling and reorganization process, but I have a feeling there won't be much of a choice... it's already kind of happening as we speak.
How do I know this?
I'm looking around- observing...
There have been little tidbits rolling around and collecting in my little head.
Things I hear, see, and feel over and over again that begin to take root. Ideas converging. Little neurons, dendrites and synapses forming in my little brain and conjoining- the chemistry of my brain being augmented by the environment.
SO...What are these things?
Well things in my Facebook newsfeed of course!
Platitudes and news- good things, bad things. Worrying things, inspiring things.
A song by one of my significant other's favorite bands, and its video.
It's blurry at first, but artistically significant of a great white and killer whale playing with and consuming its prey.
Beady Eye- Flick of the Finger
And a monologue at the end that draws me in:
"Don't be deceived when our revolution has been finally stamped out, and
they pat you eternally on the shoulder and say that there's no
inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if
you believe them they will be completely in charge, in their marble
homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world
under the pretense of bringing them culture.
Watch out.
For as
soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in
wars whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become
more and more deadly. Until they can, with a flick of the finger, tear a
million of you to pieces."
And a video that teacher friend of mine shared, and despite the date (December of last year) it remains relevant because the answer has yet to be addressed.
The 99%
So...
Perhaps - perhaps it will be all of these little things... all of them combined.
The rumors. The stories. The seemingly meaningless experiences of every day life.
Whether they are true or not.
The little videos that add up on our newsfeeds that slowly change our brain chemistry, synapse by synapse that will eventually lead to action and alter our surroundings, in one way or another.
It's really all about the process. The journey.
We're not at our destination yet. We're not at the transformational stage.
Will it be a massive global revolution to adjust to a sustainable homeostasis for our societies?
Perhaps.
We won't know until it's complete.
In the meantime, we're still cooking, boiling, simmering...
But it will change... that's for certain.
It all changes.
Aaaaaaaaand...
