MONDAY MORNING

When I started this BLOG I intended to write everyday. I soon discovered that there were scheduled events that would demand my time and now I see that unscheduled events, also, would interfere. I had hoped to write every morning from about 9:30AM to 11:AM. Saturday we had to pick up bales of hay from a neighbors field and store it in our barn. Sunday morning we butchered seven more chickens, which we like to do in the cool of the morning. We should have enough hay now to last the Winter, unless we have a worse case scenario; that would be a Winter where snow lays on the ground from the first of November to the last day in March.

I would like to address how fear is used to control us. At a superficial level, look to insurance. The industry uses fear to sell their product; whether it be house, car, life, liability or health insurance. It is disguised as responsibility but ask yourself; what is it for you? The industry makes enough money to build huge skyscrapers in  every large city in America. If, as a group, we were interested in  being responsible for ourselves and each other; is this the way we would do it? In any community one could gather historical data on the frequency and extent of house fires. It would be easy to calculate how much each should pay: their share plus an amount to cover catastrophes. You would need a good computer. You would not need huge skyscrapers and executive salaries in  the millions. We have been carefully taught not to question those who are the supposed experts and we do not see how they use fear to manipulate us for the purpose of making money.

I am very glad this 9-11 business is over. I had to keep the television off and I only glanced at the Sunday paper. Just what were people suppose to remember?  For what purpose? Every time there is a danger of our fear of terrorism dieing down, another event materializes to remind us. We must fear. I thought this weekend was the most obscene exploitation of a tragedy ever perpetrated on a people. Who gains by making us afraid of Mid Easterners? Who wants us to mistrust Muslims? Let's see: we lost a few thousand in the trade center. We have killed millions since in the Middle East. A war in Afghanistan, a war in Iraq, a war in Libya, hidden wars all over the third world; check it out.  Who gains? Are you richer because of it? The munitions people certainly are, the oil people love it, I don't think the banks are complaining. There is an awful lot of money to be thrown around because of the War Machine. They can elect politicians,  they control the media. Is that what they are doing?

I had to have a mini-rant about the craziness of the world, as we experience it. I hope it helps to awaken some of the sleeping ones. My wish is that we would accept the fact that the world, as expressed in the media, is "barking mad" and we would turn our faces towards a world we want. We may need to understand just how crazy the world is but it is not very helpful to complain about it. You know the old saying, "It is better to light a candle in the darkness, than to curse the wilderness" well it is true.

In the next few sessions I would like to discuss how the major institutions of our life have used fear to rob us of our sense of sovereignty and therefore controlled us. And yes, "The candle in the wilderness", how we can free ourselves. 

Love and Peace,  Gregg