Archive for July, 2007

I Blame Us

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

You know, we all talk about problems, issues, challenges and so on, and usually there is someone or something at fault in our descriptions and tirades. Almost without fail this blame goes to an external force. Much like the blame game of life played on a personal level, the blame game of politics extends to society and governments. We the people point our fingers and continue our apathetic bloated lives. I don’t extend this globally, just to our so called first world. (Get ready to revisit the Declaration of Independence tomorrow.)

As I insist on personal responsibility so do I insist on cultural responsibility.

Anything human and human affected you see in this world you don’t like, don’t value, don’t believe to be healthy, blame on yourself, blame on us. Personally and as a group. And the blame extends way beyond what most of us can see. For example, most of us value clean fresh water while at the same time destroying such sources on a global level.

This idea of blaming ourselves reminds me a bit of the famous Walt Kelly quote from Pogo.

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

Diluted

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

This is a play on the word deluded. If your integrity is diluted do you become deluded? Or is being deluded a sign of a diluted morality? A diluted sense of reality?

Or would deluded be an enriched sense of reality?

Mass delusion is a sign of religion. Mass dilution is a sign of moral decay.

Living In The Moment

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Old concept. Old overused phrase, maybe. But I do ponder on this one all the time, momentarily, both puns intended.

We can only be here now. We are only here now. We exist instantaneously at all times, literally. Yet, the past and the future haunt us. We spend our lives striving to be something we are not, to have something we have not, to understand something we do not, to conceive of purpose we do not have. Everybody, yeah everybody.

We are cursed by the vanity of humanity and the pain and suffering of self awareness and self pity.

Only the enlightened will realize the truth, we are in this moment for good.