THE WORLD SHADOW LOOMS LARGE
HE ISN'T THE PROBLEM HE IS A SYMPTOM
Right now in the US there is a lot of ugliness and divisiveness. Friendships and families are being torn apart. For what? Because your guy won and you may not be able to admit the fact that he is an healthy and toxic person who is working at the age old tactic of divide and conquer?
What will be the cost in the end you ask? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The environment is being destroyed with the roll back of regulations and the pillaging of our natural resources.
I guess it is all well and good, just as long as you get your measly little increase in your paycheck every week; although it is only temporary.
The weird and unusual destruction of accepted norms. But, hell yeah, lets go back to the 50's where human rights were not the standard but an exception allotted the white man because we all know he is the king of his castle.
So, we all have our shadow selves where our toxic nature resides with its shame and anger and selfishness and regrets live and grow if not addressed and brought into the light of awareness and consciousness. We want what we want and screw the other guy.
The values of loving your enemy and treating your neighbor the way you want them to treat you IS VANISHING. Its all for one and I'm for myself is the mindset of a lot people who judge people by their socio-economic status and skin color, sex, and a multitude of other boxes on a checklist of people you don't want living in your neighborhood.
Charles Dickens wrote in his Novel A Tale of Two Cities - "It is was the best of times, it was the worst of times.". It really applies in this new age of the Technology and Social Media. The vitriol travels in real time to inflict insults and hatred. A meme a quote, a post can go viral and spread like a disease. The good stuff is way less frequent and does not stay long in the consciousness of the many, but the mean stuff in the 24hr news cycle frames our day, our thoughts and our feeling.
People are more apt to think with their hearts not their minds with issues that heat them up and create anxiety then depression. I have heard some really sad stories of late of people I care about struggle and fall and want to end it. They feel powerless and see the storm to come on the horizon and do not know what to do.
While we try to deal with our individual shadow selves the people who are supposed to be leaders are amplifying their worst selves non stop everyday via Twitter and on the news and at rallies stoking hatred and division. But, 40% of the citizenry support them and want what they want and cannot see faults and accept lies as the truth making us all sick and weakened in the end.
So, if you have read this far, please do a thorough self examination of your values and ask yourself perhaps if we all happen to share them. Because I am hear to tell you - WE DO!
JEFF TURNBULL
What will be the cost in the end you ask? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The environment is being destroyed with the roll back of regulations and the pillaging of our natural resources.
I guess it is all well and good, just as long as you get your measly little increase in your paycheck every week; although it is only temporary.
The weird and unusual destruction of accepted norms. But, hell yeah, lets go back to the 50's where human rights were not the standard but an exception allotted the white man because we all know he is the king of his castle.
So, we all have our shadow selves where our toxic nature resides with its shame and anger and selfishness and regrets live and grow if not addressed and brought into the light of awareness and consciousness. We want what we want and screw the other guy.
The values of loving your enemy and treating your neighbor the way you want them to treat you IS VANISHING. Its all for one and I'm for myself is the mindset of a lot people who judge people by their socio-economic status and skin color, sex, and a multitude of other boxes on a checklist of people you don't want living in your neighborhood.
Charles Dickens wrote in his Novel A Tale of Two Cities - "It is was the best of times, it was the worst of times.". It really applies in this new age of the Technology and Social Media. The vitriol travels in real time to inflict insults and hatred. A meme a quote, a post can go viral and spread like a disease. The good stuff is way less frequent and does not stay long in the consciousness of the many, but the mean stuff in the 24hr news cycle frames our day, our thoughts and our feeling.
People are more apt to think with their hearts not their minds with issues that heat them up and create anxiety then depression. I have heard some really sad stories of late of people I care about struggle and fall and want to end it. They feel powerless and see the storm to come on the horizon and do not know what to do.
While we try to deal with our individual shadow selves the people who are supposed to be leaders are amplifying their worst selves non stop everyday via Twitter and on the news and at rallies stoking hatred and division. But, 40% of the citizenry support them and want what they want and cannot see faults and accept lies as the truth making us all sick and weakened in the end.
So, if you have read this far, please do a thorough self examination of your values and ask yourself perhaps if we all happen to share them. Because I am hear to tell you - WE DO!
JEFF TURNBULL
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