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Hysterical*Ignorance

Submitted by Rainbow Brain on February 13, 2007 - 4:20pm.
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The depth of historical ignorance required to make the assumption and assertion that the american system of social and global management is somehow superior and worth keeping intact for perpetuity, or to base any form of new future direction upon it, is absolutely the most self centered, self serving, self denying, hypocritical ignorance that one could possibly delude themselves and others into believing and/or trusting.

To claim that soldiers going to war have given or protected freedom of choice, movement or speech to any nation is absolutely ludicrous.

Ask any native or enslaved people, gender, race, or ideology on the planet for the last 5000 years or even the last 5 days if their people have been raised from the oppression of their conquerers or have been given the full human dignity, rights and opportunities of those who raped, plundered and destroyed their home, family and communities.

Americans are for the most part trapped in one of the most complete and complex forms of Narcissistic Nationalism that has ever been created and maintained by force of arms in the history of humanity.

The fallibility of which is only made more evident by the hysterical ignorance, child like tantrums and bullying displayed toward others who have been growing and developing as civilizations for thousands of years.

There is little in the current global system of management that will serve the future well in its present day form.

Anyone who trusts that there is, is quite ostensively an ostrich with their head in la-la-land.

One is both the mirror and the reflection, seek not to give energy, but to return light.

©Bruce Larson*Moore
The Last*War

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Back In*Black ;)

Submitted by Rainbow Brain on February 14, 2007 - 1:45pm.

John Klar wrote:
I haven't forgotten about you, Bruce -- I still owe you a letter. Please forgive me, I've been flat out. The better I get the more (trouble-making) I can do.

hey John,

nor have i forgotten you ;) though you owe me nothing beyond that which you choose to give, and there is never a need for forgiveness to*me, though i certainly appreciate your sentiment.

Glad to hear your doing well, and i*am also certain your "trouble-making" skills have suffered little from their lack of use, other than perhaps the suffering in you by their lack of use, and the suffering not created in others by their lack of use ;)

Be*Well

In*Truth

BL*M

Narcissism indeed

Submitted by John Klar on February 14, 2007 - 1:06pm.

Hey Bruce & Co. Sorry I've been away for awhile, though some of you may have liked the hiatus! :)

As my post today reveals, I've been quite busy. Plus lambing season in -20 plus windchill.

I'm working on my next book, cheerfully if realistically entitled "Living the American Doom." In the first chapter I address the gross failures of materialism, and the forces (sociological as well as economic) which refuse acknowledgement of this failing. Your post reminded me of a quote I do not use in the book but will share here:

"America's narcissism is strong. It is paraded before the world. If we were to put the nation on the couch, we might discern that narcissism is its most obvious symptom. And yet that narcissism holds the promise that this all-important myth can find its way into life."

Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul

Much of Mr. Moore's book is devoted not just to America's failures, but to what he dubbs "psychological modernism...the modern syndrome that so seriously threatens the world," which he defines as "an uncritical acceptance of the values of the modern world. It includes blind faith in technology, inordinate attachment to material gadgets and conveniences, uncritical acceptance of the march of scientific progress, devotion to the electronic media, and a life-style dictated by advertising." An even more enlightening book is "The American Condition," by Richard N. Goodwin, which analyzes in more concrete detail the failings of materailaism, the slavery it causes, and the underlying causes for this failure of modern capitalism. Very insightful....

I haven't forgotten about you, Bruce -- I still owe you a letter. Please forgive me, I've been flat out. However, I'm pleased to report that my Lyme disease is reponding to the intense antibiotic regimen I'm on, and my stomach is (so far) tolerating it. The better I get the more (trouble-making) I can do.

In Christ,

John Klar