I leave CCS an entirely broken man. The deepest betrayals are from those you think you love most on this earth, in this life. Let it be known it was not hate, evil, propaganda, #fakenews, the anti-American transnational conglomerate sucking humanity dry of only one thing to a greater extent than renewable resources, our sanity, it wasn't the witches or the Satanists (who might be heroes I'm not sure)...the ignorant left or the ignorant right. It was love. I don't think we should practice total detachment even after all this, even after that failed experience...of love.
The Buddhist concept of detachment to me does not represent an ideal, or the highest potential even for humanity. It is simply a necessary skill to cultivate to survive this Earth at this time. I have a dream of a world where I do not have to cry on every trip to the grocery store(and not because Amazon delivers it to my door with a drone. I do not have to witness abject poverty and suffering on every drive across America, or children with bandaged hands across the third world....standing under dump trucks hoping for a morsel of value to their stomach or
I have a dream where we come together, and realize the power of the individual, of Rand philosophy and catering to the self is a good way to die in the 21st century and humanity to end in the lives of our children or grand children. No.....we will come together or continue to suffer immeasurable dreams. I have a dream where the American government does not pick winners and losers based on corporate donors with global interests and power that supercede the interests of the people of this nation....that when we rise up and take back this government and employ a government is to settle conflicts of interest as justly as possible, end the military industrial complex, irresponsible big pharma pumping people full of crazy, media with intent to divide and cause anger and conflict not just from Russia....but from our own special interests groups also profiting from the for-profit prison system we may all end up in when we can't take anymore. Or just keep leeching every drop of blood from the poorest minority who are becoming a majority.
I may leave a soul fractured hobo without a friend, without family, chopped to pieces by the most entitled species in human existence, the American woman after the turn of the 21st century.
It is told a prophet shall return and break the perfect Palindrome. Wait for me Rush.
Love one another. Seek reconciliation and understanding. Listen to the pains of your brother and realize we all want the same things even if we have different ideas of how to get there. We won't get there if we don't come together and listen...really listen.
The right, the left. Black. White. American. Iranian. Korean.
We are all the same. The same laws of the universe, the same God or cosmos rules us all. He is open for business no matter who you are, or no matter how badly your culture or paster or personal beliefs have fucked up the concepts. The God of this place if he exists would not choose among colors or tribes of monkeys on this earth...or among species probably. The same rules apply to us all. 8 billion people current and past, at least, have practices faith and many have God is a bigger concept than little differences, or hell, Christians used to kill each other over whose Christianity was better.
Seek connection with whatever is the universe. Find nature. Feel the cold morning dew and smell the world in a place it is still fresh. Seek to be better and build up your brothers, increase all of our understanding. We must be patient. We must learn to remember the consequences of disagreement before they are so severe nobody can stand it anymore and we sign treaties.
If we take the step to put our energy into cooperation, sustainability proliferation across the globe, and building a culture with a plan to help get people off the mat, educated and working (education/information is free now by the way, the university is a luxury, not a need).
Perhaps we should even jail or have norway like jails where the degenerates that won't work go for a time. We must get creative and understand though that a large portion of people cannot handle the modern world and we need a plan that works for the most the most justly.
Its going to be ok. The sooner we proliferate love and patience, empathy and cooperation over selfish pessimistic devotion to the self the better.
