DEEPLY AWAKE – OUR LEADERS
I spoke with my dad this morning about this presidential race. He is 75, highly astute politically, and has an uncanny ability to call out falsehood and affectation.
He said that Romney reminds him of when Hitler was voted into office by Germany. There was desperation and retribution in the air, and Hitler seized upon it. He promised prosperity. Some of the Germans knew prosperity. They became part of the war machine. He said if Romney does get in, we will have a certain kind of prosperity, because we will have perpetual and amplified war. That our leaders are puppets, and each bring their own kind of trouble.
It takes a consummate liar to turn from understanding that in Germany, as in America, killers have been, are and will be granted full authority and immunity by the victims, just to keep it tidy and legal. If you are filled with venom for your fellow man, thinking of them as inferior or separate, it is easy to travel to the place where a “their own good” mantra will make you doubly dangerous.
I think we have a choice between willful incarceration, or the slow, shambling walk of a crippled and terminal empire, so filled with disgust for the governed, that nothing short of ignoring it all will make it better.
Yesterday brought about many ah-hahs for me. I was reeling from a mistake I made regarding writing some code in my wordpress editor which ultimately caused the whole website to lose its original theme. Many of you may have noticed this when you landed on the site and found that it was radically changed. Well I gotta tell you, it was not a fun experience, and it brought about a deluge of old programming. This massive wave of panic, overwhelm, doubt, and frustration washed over me like a proverbial tsunami. Dialogue occurred within my mind as to what, when, and why it had happened. There was a real fear of hundreds and hundreds of hours of work "not being put to good use" for the planet. It was amazing what I heard come up and how much I was irritated with myself.
