tru3
01-09-2007, 04:55 PM
i've been real quiet lately, but i just had to post a link to this brilliant essay!
Time to re-think conspiracy.
We need to embrace conspiracy in two ways. One, admit that it’s real, its quotidian, it’s the fabric of our lives, the mercury in the air, the dioxin in the water, it’s filling the airwaves and the marketplace and the courts and the halls of Congress before we even get out of bed every morning. Two, counter it with a conspiracy of our own. On our side we have the fundamental fact that although the corporate They can alter many of our realities, they can’t alter Reality. They can’t change the behavior of Nature. They can sell off the rain forest, but they can’t leverage the effect of cutting it. They can keep the mileage of cars poor so we’ll buy more gas, but they can’t alter the amount of oil in the ground or the damage to the atmosphere. They can privatize every human interaction and every natural resource, but they can’t privatize the laws of nature. They have conspired to change reality. We must conspire to live in harmony with Reality.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3521/
the Divine doesn't understand what we don't want; It only understands That Which Is. if we want to be liberated from the old oppressions, we must consciously embody something different.
and, one way or another, we've got to find a way to do it together.
to breathe together, as the essay points out.
even if all the loomies of all the thirteen families vaporized tomorrow in some kind of anti-rapture, we're still here, stuck with the faulty, fear-based programming which enabled that system of corruption and predation to thrive in the first place.
"they" may have created it, but "we" are the ones who are still eating this bitter fruit.
imho, we need to find new ways to engage "fence-sitters" in some kind of broad consensus. i feel this article points the way.
enjoy,
T
Time to re-think conspiracy.
We need to embrace conspiracy in two ways. One, admit that it’s real, its quotidian, it’s the fabric of our lives, the mercury in the air, the dioxin in the water, it’s filling the airwaves and the marketplace and the courts and the halls of Congress before we even get out of bed every morning. Two, counter it with a conspiracy of our own. On our side we have the fundamental fact that although the corporate They can alter many of our realities, they can’t alter Reality. They can’t change the behavior of Nature. They can sell off the rain forest, but they can’t leverage the effect of cutting it. They can keep the mileage of cars poor so we’ll buy more gas, but they can’t alter the amount of oil in the ground or the damage to the atmosphere. They can privatize every human interaction and every natural resource, but they can’t privatize the laws of nature. They have conspired to change reality. We must conspire to live in harmony with Reality.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/31/3521/
the Divine doesn't understand what we don't want; It only understands That Which Is. if we want to be liberated from the old oppressions, we must consciously embody something different.
and, one way or another, we've got to find a way to do it together.
to breathe together, as the essay points out.
even if all the loomies of all the thirteen families vaporized tomorrow in some kind of anti-rapture, we're still here, stuck with the faulty, fear-based programming which enabled that system of corruption and predation to thrive in the first place.
"they" may have created it, but "we" are the ones who are still eating this bitter fruit.
imho, we need to find new ways to engage "fence-sitters" in some kind of broad consensus. i feel this article points the way.
enjoy,
T