2009, America. Weakened by decades of greed and a lust for power by those who can even conceive of those elements the majority of Americans have been beaten down. Now many turn on each other. Full of fear and the tales of doomsday many silently wait for a clock that they can only feel ticking down to zero the final stages of a world contemplating its demise. That’s what we have become, after decades of motivation by fear at the hands of those who have sought to enslave us through fear. While they play their games of power, domination, and final gambits for all or nothing. Most of us got nothing, or close to it.
Our numbness may be our salvation. Powerful stories of why we should be afraid finally wearing thin, finally reaching its limit. Now after all to understand how less has freed many and letting go has put us in perspective. One in six-billion. It’s hard to lay blame as there is plenty to go around. Politics, religion, cultural superstition, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Mayan calendar to the Apocalypse, even cancer or other illnesses born out of television advertising. We have sucked it all in and filled the darker recesses of our minds with it. All of it to motivate, all of it affording someone power over us.
Now we come here is hash it out. To figure out the storm and find some refuge from the mind games that unify the Internet. At least now we have become seekers. Many still believing but many ready to cast off the cloak of fear that has falsely activated so many until now.
So is dedicated this site. To the seekers of truth. To the end of false manipulation. To the beginning of something different, even if it is that we don‘t know what lies ahead. Yet, it seems better than to carry the weight of negative energy that drags behind each of us, in one way or other. The reassessment that happens here may change little, or may change a lot. It all depends on how deep the fear goes and ultimately how much it really matters. As long as it’s your fear and not someone else’s and as long as you accept it and not find it imposed by some other power for another motivation. So, we launch this site, and we shall walk as far as it takes us and look to a future as much as it can illuminate it for us. But, as important as the distance is the reality that is will be a path people walk together and seek out the truth, whatever it may be, and wherever it happens to be found.
So, good reading to the judges of the site and good hunting to the seekers of the truth. We will be listening and writing and waiting.
Professor D. Michael English
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LuciStar added these pithy words on Jan 27 09 at 12:51 am“It all depends on how deep the fear goes and ultimately how much it really matters. As long as it’s your fear and not someone else’s and as long as you accept it and not find it imposed by some other power for another motivation.”
I think this is so very key. One idea that as been a resurfacing thing is the idea of the fear of the unknown. It is shying away from change just for the reason of not knowing what will happen. People are almost more content to live unhappily and unhealthily, because at least, in their state, they know what to expect. I don’t think there is a single trailblazer in history that could be claimed to be truly fearless. All have them, to some extent. It just depends on whether the vision of what “could be” seems worth moving past that fear into that uncharted territory, or not. I have a feeling though, that this country has expelled a great breath it had been holding. The breath being held on the outcome of the election. Perhaps now people will breathe that sigh of relief, and begin to dream a little. This is all that can be hoped for. For Americans to wake up from their slumber and be a bit daring. For many, seeing a non-white president is enough alone to make people wake up and believe. Believe that sometimes the seemingly impossible or unforeseeable, is possible. Not just possible, but attainable. Perhaps we can get back to having hearts of lions and tuck our fears in the backs of our minds and trudge forward. Because, isn’t that what this country was built on? Chances? Risks? Opportunities? Even if it takes conquering our fears to create those opportunities for ourselves, it is so necessary. I am also hoping this site will rally people. Make people dream. Give them ideas and the courage to know there are those who support their efforts and are like minded. Perhaps… just perhaps… (smile)
Rob Layton added these pithy words on Jan 27 09 at 3:06 pm“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”— Howard ZinnThe reluctance I feel about the new administration taking office is a product of their campaign being centered around hope and change. Generally, this is a good pairing, but taken in the wrong context, it can be disastrous. To hope that Obama is going to fix everything is as futile as hoping things are going to go back to the way they used to be. We have to focus on bring change ourselves. Those who listened and kept up with the campaign will remember that the Obama administration understood that it is the people who will bring change [to the White House]. But headlines and controversy are too powerful for their own good, and too often are the facts unresearched, forgotten, even compromised.
I agree with your mantra that we must seek truth. If there’s any one thing, historically, we can attribute the title of most influential, it would have to be information. Misinformation in the wrong hands can devastate an entire nation, and every last shred of life, culture, and (our)humanity.
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