America is fighting for its spiritual life

America is fighting for its spiritual life.

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Let's face it; the Bush years have taken a monstrous toll on our spirits. So many lies, so much hypocrisy, so much greed . . . and so much mass murder.

Internet sites allow the no longer silent majority to share our sorrow and rage about these Bush/Republican abominations and we can learn much from the reader response to these submissions. Many comments are, "We already know about the sleaze and greed, so please don't waste our time with that. We are interested in change, not polemics. We want to know how to get out of this awful mess.”

So may I respectfully suggest at least a partial answer to that question, even though it’s not a political answer? No strategy on high from the Judas Democratic Leadership Committee. No propaganda from America’s Dictatorship of the Rich. Something more authentic and modest.

It has to do with where these political fascists and religious fanatics have wounded us the most. Their criminal greed, hypocrisy, and heartless violence has drained our spirits and disrupted our interpersonal lives. But the good news is that this is something we can do something about! We can recommit to loving our children, listening to music, and allowing ourselves to be enriched by the endless beauties of Mother Nature.

Most of all, we can keep talking to each other -- but not only about "politics". Certainly massive political action is now life and death, but endless political talk can be more part of the problem than the solution.

The Bush/Republican Presidency has declared total war on our world and our very souls, but when your children, homes, and planet are under ruthless attack, it's hard to stay sensitive to matters of the spirit. But just this is our strength; this is our center. We can't let these loathsome greed machines diminish our life courageousness.

Presuming to speak for myself as a vulnerable human being is my line in the sand against these dehumanizing, depersonalizing Bushians.

So I suppose this is a "spiritual" communication. Big word, I know, but it doesn't mean anything especially religious or philosophical. It simply means singing the praises of being human together and keeping the interpersonal faith. It also means telling the truth about what is delicately important in each of our personal lives.

Please note that Bush reality is the exact opposite of what we're talking about now. This is the danger and horror of it. This is a world where irrational cults claim to have a hot line to God and where the obscenely rich (of both parties) buy and sell the Earth. But most of all, it is a bareness of intimacy. One never really knows if there’s anyone home behind those dead Bush/Republican eyes.

Such people are mortally dangerous; not only because they're systematically killing our Democratic Republic, but because their spirits are broken and dead. And this is the heart of what I'm struggling to say. What's happening now in America is only symptomatically a political tragedy, because behind the political dance is a vast spiritual challenge in which the best of us, the best of America, is fighting for its life.

Thus, this is not ultimately a political conflict. It’s a conflict between vulnerable human beings and a Republican Heart of Darkness and our best defense is to keep the faith that our love of life is stronger than their psychotic fear of death.

George Bush and his ilk aren't just brutish greed heads, they are parasites of the human spirit and we must not let them contaminate our humanity by compromising with their absolute betrayal of existential honor.

Lastly, we must risk opening our hearts to each other about such things over and over and over again. Only this will heal our desperately wounded spirits.
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)

<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>

It's on now. Thanks for reminding me.

Bill

Industrial expasion is a thing of the past in North America, save for pockets in Mexico. We have a war in which only a small percentage of the population is even more than passingly interested, it seems, even though the entire thesis of the war was proven as false as the Ptolemaic cosmic system of geocentric orbit of the other heavenly spheres, yet people are more interested in the summer replacement shows where we can watch a dog walk a tight rope and a fat man yodel than in expressing the righteous indignation and vengeful spirit one would expect.
A former VP candidate goes publicly crazy, and a 4 star former NATO supreme commander with the diplomatic status of a head of state calls him on it live on TV and there is but a small shudder, as if bombing Iran would solve our malaise and jump start us into recognizing the 300 lb gorilla in the room: loss of our industrial base and rapid depletion of petroleum and not one major iniative save for a handful of academic researchers seriously appearing to be interested, save the corn growers, already fat off the public teat in the never ending cycle of borrow, plant, insure, sell, get part plowed under not to plant, and get checks from the US Treasury without regard to the outcome of the crop...the greatest socialist program ever designed in the US for a now hereditary class of farm land owners.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, our cattle can't be tested by private companies for fear, so the USDA tells us, that a false positive would endanger profits for the beef packers.
China makes our electronic trinkets and buys what in return? Our bonds is all that comes to mind. A small crew of idiots who have a rabid fixation upon warfare yet have never served in the military, with an obsessive blinder-borne horse to the posibility of one small state on the border of Africa, Asia and Europe becoming our role model decides our foreign policy. We ally with dictatorships, decadent human rights deprived oil monarchies and then rattle sabres because a state which had a successful revolution, overthrowing a tyrant and his secret torture squads funded and trained by the US dare make a run at energy independence, yet don't bat an eye when the administration and its erstwhile replacements say that we may need to nuke this country.
Oh, well, I guess I need to read the professional journals and see if I can find a job that pays over $30K for what the professional societies say should be a $40K entry level job. Maybe if I try long enough and pray very, very hard and long, the $30K will come with health insurance.
At least I have my dog and she is loyal, unlike the Congress at present who tell us "That's not what I meant when I said 'X,' you just thought I did, I have to translate that into a vote and it didn't fit well."

Amen, amen, & amen, but we're not alone with these insights and realisms. Seabirds of MASSIVE change are now cloud sized.

Bill

And I, for one, would love nothing more than to be able to trade my corporate shackles for a nice, quiet spot in the country, where I could play music and dedicate my life to Art for its own sake.

The problem -- the major hurdle -- is that everyone has to agree that this is the change we're making. Things have to improve so we're not being forced to feed the beast, as it were. Right now, it's all I can do to keep the bills paid. Contrary to what the news reports, the job market sucks. Wages are flat and inflation is on the move.

I understand I'm bringing the fiscal world into a spiritual discourse. I do that only to show that there is a correlation between the most basic of needs (food, water, shelter, oxygen) and what we do once those needs are satisfied (which is focus on the spiritual/intellectual side of things).

This society does not lend itself to spiritual/intellectual pursuit, as much as I wish that it did. Until we, as a society, place more value on these pursuits, we're not going to go anywhere fast, spiritually and intellectually speaking.

I had great hopes for the Age of Information. It brought with it both great prosperity and opened doors for spiritual and intellectual pursuits. Sadly, it was crushed in it's infancy by the Age of Neo-barbarianism.

Eagerly, I await the next Age, hoping for something better.

of it's master's deception.

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Excellent read. Thanks for posting.:thumbsup:

Do even 20% of Americans REALIZE where the battle lines have been drawn?