03-21-2020, 08:34 PM
(03-21-2020, 06:04 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: In your obsession with the Prophets this time being evil, you fail to perceive the very real flaws in America that did exist. In not defining an ideology that ties your group together, arbitrarily you try to claim goops will come together for no reason, without a common understanding or set of goals.
I find it more essential to assert the ideologies do exist, that the red Republicans and Blue Democrats have declared platforms which people have voted on. The progressive agenda is real, and the Coronavirus has gone a long way to uniting us behind one long existing but ever changing set of ideals.
Winter is associated with evil in most places where winter harms the community. Harsh, brazen, uncompromising and bitter. I don't, however, view that arm of the Saeculum as evil. I definitely used to. With age, I recognize seasons must happen and will not be set aside. And that nothing is evil except where a person makes it so. As I mentioned, the primal communities of ole greatly feared it in the North out of necessity.
If you wan to understand it as "YOUR individual liberty matters almost nothing as opposed to OURS" this is the way forward probably beginning with last weekend. Do you get that? About 40 years ago, it was "OUR individual liberty matters everything as opposed to YOURS".
See what I did there? One of my books is going to be "Perspective Changes Everything" it applies to everything from cartography to nano-science.
But, we are in the peak of the swing. The Prophet is no longer part of the solution, they cannot be. They cannot get past the "aisle". If I hear one more time "both sides of the aisle" I'm gonna hurl something at John King. And I don't dislike mr king. That paradigm is is marked for death as of right now. Everything that comes after right now is going to leave no room for any "aisle". The "aisle" is going to get exploded.
You want to bring it with you? Like heaven, you can't. The "aisle" is passing away. Let's rejoice instead of still trying to cling to it like some kneeler in church.
NOW................. so you understand my PERSONAL view. This as opposed to what I just said. My academia does not always align with who I will say "is that what I would have wanted before I knew better?" I don't like Groupthink. I hate it. Nothing to me is more boring and constrictive of anything beautiful or desirous of being paid attention to. I have a lot of respect for the Prophet archetype and I am more like THAT archetype personally than maybe any of the others. I consider myself Prophet by choice and Nomad by circumstance. I do not like that music has stagnated to a stand-still and no provocative art is even allowed. While growing up, I fantasized about being raised by Donna Reed and then living with the Bradys. So, if that helps you get my aura, good will to that.
I am not in here preaching from my inner pulpit about things I am fired up about. I realize WHATEVER I believe in terms of where I am in the voting booth, it will NEVER fix the problems accrued since I was old enough to pay attention. It seems like the same patterns and circles, politically, have gone on my entire life and then now we have this mountain.
Through understanding generational theory, I have a hope in the idea I might live to see an America reborn. I am generally a kid of patriotism and the flag meant something to me in school. But none of that matters. I refuse to give in to fighting someone across a stretch of carpet calling it "the aisle". No more. That thinking solves none of the problems. It only perpetuates the DREAMS of the Prophet where in that dream they are the center of the universe. Nothing real happens without it happening to them. It's all about them. I am convinced this war of values that has been raging for 40 years COULD destroy us all if we don't choose a different way.
WE WILL.