American Born, Addicted to Happiness

[Petrodollar Warfare]

Important message in this essay, IMO...

American Born, Addicted to Happiness
by
Carolyn Baker

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120304_american_born.shtml

"I noticed on November 3, 2004 that we were no longer living merely in the territory of political solutions or issues of social justice, but had crossed a watershed moment in history into the landscape of collective anguish that might test our mettle as a people and as individuals like nothing Americans have previously experienced.


"....As we enter the dark time of year, and perhaps one of the darkest times in modern history, we celebrate in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the coming of the light. Darkness has never been able to unequivocally obliterate it. All great traditions and spiritual teachers declare that human existence is largely comprised of adversity interspersed with moments of light, beauty, and joy.

They have also admonished us to remember that without suffering, there will never be transformation. The days of simply applying bandaids to America's deplorably corrupt and unjust political, economic, and social institutions are over.

It appears that nothing less than total transformation is being demanded of us.

My wish for every American in 2005 is that we recover from our addiction to happiness-our refusal to hear, ponder, and struggle with "bad news", and with informed, illumined minds and hearts, allow the darkness to be our teacher.

That very "un-American" path may be our only hope for creating a new world.

[teryang]

1. Bad news on Yahoo gets lowest ratings

It doesn't sell. Shoot the messenger.

I'm afraid that things will get much worse before they get better. In fact I don't think that they will get better, not in my lifetime (I'm over fifty). Corruption and class society is so well entrenched now that only profound calamities sufficient to shake the very foundation of society will change anything. We now have a war mongering fascist police state with no respect for law or human rights. This state is supported by a greedy and ruthless ruling caste of aristocrats allied with propagandized and ignorant masses.

This is a return to the feudal standards of existence that fascists have always admired.