Fewer teens having babies, but more are living in poverty

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20060626-1657-kidscount.html

A society can, to me, only reasonably be measured by how it treats and cares for its less fortunate. Its rich are on their own and hold onto and manipulate what power there is, so it seems. How do we now witness the less fortunate, from the poor to the mentally ill, to the in-between, treated these days? Mind works this way and finds great excuses for the results, and yet, you persist in exhalting that thing you call mind.

We see a culture that enthrones the fetus itself, (mo matter how you consider or contemplate that within reason) as a very, very sacred thing without question. It is one of the most influential organisms in American politics to date.

On the other hand, notwithstanding that all fetuses eventually grow up and become a part of that abstract we call culture/society, the death penalty still holds strong and has recently been upheld as law.

We can then ascertain that the culture tells us we want to have as many people as possible inserted into this system and we also want to be able to judge them to the sentence of death if they do not conform to the system's requirements. That is a very cut and dried for of regimentation that starts from cradle to grave, so it is an all-inclusive paradigm that should acquire our very concerned and concise attention as to the merits and methods of the system we live within, today.

Rather than moan about and criticize these issues, it might do us better to pay more attention to how they impact us and our lives and how we literally invest our lives and efforts into that, in so many sundry ways. Like it or not, we are supporting all of this by our very lifestyles, as addicted to them as we are. Everything we are doing right now, no matter how we like to bitch and moan about the legal, political, and natural outcomes, is a contribution to the results we are seeing and greeting.

IF there were too much of an inner realization and shift about these very essential matters, in the way of realization and acknowledgment, then the transformations would be palatable and even dynamic -- to the point of great transformation. That is something to contemplate if you think you and your acculturate and acquired lifestyle is not at all greatly removed from the natural needs of you as a natural organism on a biosphere. Start with: what is the difference between what you really need and what you strongly WANT?

This, as a resolution, could be as far as your adaptive, oneupmanship mind, or as close as what you have been taught so vehemently to close off and distrust, your gut and your heart. Those aspects could all be living in harmony, if only we, as the inhabitants of those states, could commit and agree to accepting and living them as it is right now.

But, for the sake of argument, we do not and cannot. That is the point. Too much gets in the way of what seems to be and what we are, essentially. We are this without equivocation. If we can get their and admit it without the need for words and ideas, we will move forward at the speed of light. Denial is our only enemy at this essential stage of our experience on this small dot in the Universe.

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