What does it all mean?
The tornadoes, the tsunamis, rebellion against Middle East tyrants,
the Tea Party, human rights in China, economic and political collapse in
America, football and soccer fanatics, global warming or not?
We already have all the great thinkers we need to assure planetary
survival, mental health, freedom, and happiness: op-ed columnists, professors,
philosophers, self-help gurus, and thousands of known dead thinkers whose work
survives on the same internet as Facebook.
WE DON’T NEED MORE INFORMATION. We have it all. What we need
is personal commitment, sacrificing vision, serious leadership, and society’s
will to act. We don’t have it.
Since we all are going to die – the oppressors, the
oppressed, the saints, the insane – is there any realistic purpose to write,
discuss, analyze, create, or try to communicate with those who do not agree
with us?
Is the best way, in fact, to emotionally close-out the
world, or with sadness, just try to make our own individual short lives as easy
and enjoyable as possible?
Or, maybe, to pay lifetime penitence for the overwhelming
sins of Humankind against Humankind, by choosing to live ranting, suffering existences,
though no one else cares except people tortured by Reality like ourselves?
Can we legitimately judge anyone…the Buddhist masters who
escape to nirvana, the Capitalists and Communists who greedily destroy
everything and everyone in their obsessed quest for power and eternal life, the
hedonists who have lots of fun without guilt, the gentle selfless utopians who
fantasize a human world that can never be? Yes, or no.
Are only the most brutal killers among us non-hypocrites? Is
hypocrisy wrong? Is maturity a cop-out from Truth? Is humor a sadistic or
masochistic addictive substitution for crying?
What does any of it all mean?
Choose your delusion: power, sex, fame, respect, comfort,
inner-peace, excitement, oblivion. We all die in the end…some of us sooner,
some of us later, some of us while still living.
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