So much of what we do to each other must have the rest of creation shaking their heads in disbelief. It is a fact is that someone born here is no more special than someone from Mexico. Someone born in New York is no more special than someone who lives in Havana. Someone who is black is no more special than someone who is white, the body is just a vehicle for the consciousness to experience. If you go down to the sea shore and pick up a droplet of water in your hand, how can you believe that that droplet is any more special than all the rest of the droplets in the ocean in front of you.
So when i began to understand all this and appreciate this other explanation to dogmatic religion and "this world is all there is" science. I began to ask a question. How come this explanation does not seem as credible as the other two? How come the other two get all the "air time", no questions asked? And the alternative to both of them is condemned by reflex action. (changing the way we do and think)
The answer that I came up with was clearly, some people don't want us to have access to this information. but who and whay? I began to ask other questions. I can't recall any one who wanted wars, who had any interest in war, who felt that war was horrific and avoidable. So i thought, how come the world has been awash with wars then? why? Then i kinda looked at this economic system that controls the world. A system that is SO SANE (in the eyes of the ones driving it) that the more successful it is, the quicker it destroys the planet. It's the perfect environmental and human assessing. It insists that we take even more things, make even more things, consume even more things and throw away even more things to worship the real god of the modern world, economic growth. It insists that 20% of the population can consume 80% of the resources and leaving the other 80% to get by on the other 20%.IT'S CRAZY... of course it is!!! But it is the economic system now that controls your life and mine and 6 billion others.
So I thought, what's behind this self destruction, who and why? I started to look at some of the other conventional wisdom that we pass on from generation to generation as the only way to do things in this world. The system that i just described is dismantling this planet, you ask any politician what we do to get out of this mess we have created and they will say we must have more growth to raise money to spend on the environment. If I said to you the best way to put out a fire was to pour gasoline on it, you would say i was out of my mind, but that's what the politicians are doing when they say more growth to sort out the environment.
It's conventional wisdom to make animals into a commodity, to be made as fat as possible, as quickly as possible with less food to feed them with. To condemn animals to a life time of pain, fear and suffering in the name of economics.
You are considered SANE if you judge your success in health care not by how many people are healthy....but by the number of diseases you can treat. Why? WE ARE TREATING MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE....why? Why are so many people so ill?
It's conventional wisdom that rising housing prices are a sign of our economic success when hundreds of thousands are homeless because they cannot afford to buy a home.
You are SANE finally if you think its fine to support a system that is so successful that every year there is more suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, pain, suffering, fear and homelessness than the year before. WE'D BE IN REAL TROUBLE IF THIS SYSTEM WASN'T WORKING WOULDN'T WE?
That is our SANITY, but its the ultimate INSANITY...so who's behind it and why?
I began to realize too, that against the background of this utter self destruction on this planet is stunning wisdom. And I see the difference between cleverness and wisdom. They are not the same thing. This system is very clever but its not very wise and its the lack of wisdom that is the problem and has created our crisis.
I began to see that what we call wisdom is not found in the " in this state of the art...letters after their name system", but rather in the native peoples that the the SYSTEM would see as backward. A piece of Native American wisdom for you...." when you have cut down the last tree and poisoned the last river you will then know that you cannot EAT money." THAT'S WISDOM!
In 1854, the United States made an offer for a piece of native land. And under the system I have been talking about and under the values that have been indoctrinated into us... what should have happened was the Chief would have thought ' I have a good one here, I am in the drivers seat. What I will do is duck and weave, put up the price and just when I think they will pull out, I will put out my hand and say YA GOT A DEAL.' And people would think, what a great businessman he is, that Chief is a player.
But there is another Value System on this planet also, a value system that said this in terms of this Chief. "How can you buy and sell the sky? We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle on the water. How then can you buy them from us? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people, holy in the memory of their experience. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. He is a stranger that comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his friend, but his enemy. And when he has conquered it, he moves on. He kidnaps the earth from his children. His appetite will devour the earth and leave nothing but a wasteland. If the beast were gone we would die of a great loneliness of the spirit, for what ever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth." It is SO GREAT TO THINK that these words were spoken in 1854 when you look at what has happened since. It is SO SAD TO THINK that they were never heeded.
So when i began to understand all this and appreciate this other explanation to dogmatic religion and "this world is all there is" science. I began to ask a question. How come this explanation does not seem as credible as the other two? How come the other two get all the "air time", no questions asked? And the alternative to both of them is condemned by reflex action. (changing the way we do and think)
The answer that I came up with was clearly, some people don't want us to have access to this information. but who and whay? I began to ask other questions. I can't recall any one who wanted wars, who had any interest in war, who felt that war was horrific and avoidable. So i thought, how come the world has been awash with wars then? why? Then i kinda looked at this economic system that controls the world. A system that is SO SANE (in the eyes of the ones driving it) that the more successful it is, the quicker it destroys the planet. It's the perfect environmental and human assessing. It insists that we take even more things, make even more things, consume even more things and throw away even more things to worship the real god of the modern world, economic growth. It insists that 20% of the population can consume 80% of the resources and leaving the other 80% to get by on the other 20%.IT'S CRAZY... of course it is!!! But it is the economic system now that controls your life and mine and 6 billion others.
So I thought, what's behind this self destruction, who and why? I started to look at some of the other conventional wisdom that we pass on from generation to generation as the only way to do things in this world. The system that i just described is dismantling this planet, you ask any politician what we do to get out of this mess we have created and they will say we must have more growth to raise money to spend on the environment. If I said to you the best way to put out a fire was to pour gasoline on it, you would say i was out of my mind, but that's what the politicians are doing when they say more growth to sort out the environment.
It's conventional wisdom to make animals into a commodity, to be made as fat as possible, as quickly as possible with less food to feed them with. To condemn animals to a life time of pain, fear and suffering in the name of economics.
You are considered SANE if you judge your success in health care not by how many people are healthy....but by the number of diseases you can treat. Why? WE ARE TREATING MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE....why? Why are so many people so ill?
It's conventional wisdom that rising housing prices are a sign of our economic success when hundreds of thousands are homeless because they cannot afford to buy a home.
You are SANE finally if you think its fine to support a system that is so successful that every year there is more suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, pain, suffering, fear and homelessness than the year before. WE'D BE IN REAL TROUBLE IF THIS SYSTEM WASN'T WORKING WOULDN'T WE?
That is our SANITY, but its the ultimate INSANITY...so who's behind it and why?
I began to realize too, that against the background of this utter self destruction on this planet is stunning wisdom. And I see the difference between cleverness and wisdom. They are not the same thing. This system is very clever but its not very wise and its the lack of wisdom that is the problem and has created our crisis.
I began to see that what we call wisdom is not found in the " in this state of the art...letters after their name system", but rather in the native peoples that the the SYSTEM would see as backward. A piece of Native American wisdom for you...." when you have cut down the last tree and poisoned the last river you will then know that you cannot EAT money." THAT'S WISDOM!
In 1854, the United States made an offer for a piece of native land. And under the system I have been talking about and under the values that have been indoctrinated into us... what should have happened was the Chief would have thought ' I have a good one here, I am in the drivers seat. What I will do is duck and weave, put up the price and just when I think they will pull out, I will put out my hand and say YA GOT A DEAL.' And people would think, what a great businessman he is, that Chief is a player.
But there is another Value System on this planet also, a value system that said this in terms of this Chief. "How can you buy and sell the sky? We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle on the water. How then can you buy them from us? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people, holy in the memory of their experience. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. He is a stranger that comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his friend, but his enemy. And when he has conquered it, he moves on. He kidnaps the earth from his children. His appetite will devour the earth and leave nothing but a wasteland. If the beast were gone we would die of a great loneliness of the spirit, for what ever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth." It is SO GREAT TO THINK that these words were spoken in 1854 when you look at what has happened since. It is SO SAD TO THINK that they were never heeded.
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